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"We have a line of sight to drive approximately $1 billion of gross run rate savings over three years across product development, customer service and support, and many of our operational processes," he said. The company's results announcement [PDF] states the aims of the new cost-cutting program are "to drive customer satisfaction, product innovation, and productivity through artificial intelligence adoption and enablement." Or in other words, replacing about ten percent of the company's people with AI, to save $1 billion.

The Safe C++ proposal, which sought to introduce a memory-safe subset of the language inspired by the guarantees found in newer languages like Rust, has been abandoned by its lead author. This development occurs as pressure mounts from government agencies and industry leaders to address critical vulnerabilities often found in legacy codebases, which form the backbone of global digital infrastructure.

Meta is in talks with Google about the use of TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) from 2027, with possible lease agreements via Google Cloud as early as 2026. The move would make Google a serious alternative to Nvidia as a supplier of AI hardware. The latter could be significantly affected by this due to its limited number of large customers. According to Bloomberg, citing The Information and insiders, Meta may start using TPUs in its own data centers.

The "Suspended Hotels" tab in the "Properties" page of your Hotel Center account will be removed. All properties that were previously on the suspension list have been unsuspended. The suspension tool was originally created as a way to quickly deactivate properties, often due to price accuracy issues. Now, with both Live On Google and improved automated removal of inaccurate prices with PA insights, it is easier than ever for partners to resolve price accuracy issues and quickly deactivate any properties.

Why does speed matter so much? When multiple traders target the same arbitrage opportunity or chase the best execution price, being first is essential. For the fastest high-frequency trading strategies, even a few nanoseconds of delay can sometimes determine whether a profitable trade is captured. Consider price slippage. The short gap between generating a trading order and its arrival at the exchange leaves traders exposed to price movements. A decision that looked profitable just a moment ago may become a losing proposition after a slight delay.

Folly makes money. Creative destruction and manic folly are exactly why the U.S. is the center of innovation in the world,

"Amazon Leo represents a massive opportunity for businesses operating in challenging environments," Chris Weber, vice president of consumer and enterprise business for Amazon Leo, said in a statement.

Just weeks after the IT and networking giant revealed that it had developed software designed to make the new networking paradigm work through networking application demos for classical use cases, Cisco has announced a partnership with IBM to build a network of large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers, laying the groundwork for networked distributed quantum computing, to be realised as soon as the early 2030s.

For years, we filled our calendars, stayed visible, and kept the machine moving. Our worth was measured in hours, output, and presence. It had to be. Humans were the system, and the system required us to keep it running. We didn't question it because that was how things got done. AI has changed that. It can now do many of the things we once did to keep things moving: the summaries, the reports, the follow-ups, the updates, the spreadsheets.

When Chinese tech giant Ant Group released its new AI coding assistant tool last Tuesday, it didn't expect the app to break under its own popularity. LingGuang, an AI app for vibe coding and building apps using plain-language prompts, reached over 1 million downloads in four days. By Monday, the app had crossed 2 million downloads, the company said in a press release. On Monday, LingGuang ranked first on Apple's mainland China App Store for free utilities apps and sixth overall for free apps. Ant Group, an affiliate company of the Chinese conglomerate Alibaba Group, said on Thursday - three days after LingGuang's debut - that the app's system buckled under heavy traffic.

Tarana, which provides technology to more than 300 service providers in 24 countries, offered two results from the Nextlink internet deployment. It claimed speeds increase from 369 Mbps download/79 Mbps upload to more than 950 Mbps download/400 Mbps upload on a 98.3-mile link. The new Nextlink capability will provide gigabit service in areas previously limited to sub-gigabit speeds. The company also claimed that radio frequency (RF) utilization dropped by 16% on a sector serving 186 users.

Microsoft has announced that WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) will be removed from future versions of Windows Server. The feature will remain available in Windows Server 2025 until 2034, after which organizations will have to switch to DNS permanently. According to Microsoft, DNS is the logical successor. The protocol complies with RFC 1034 and RFC 1035 and offers a distributed, hierarchical structure. WINS, on the other hand, works with a centralized replication model that scales less well.

Yesterday X started rolling out a new About This Account feature, which included what country the account was created from and what country the account is "based" in (which is different from "connected via"). Head of product at X, Nikita Bier, was quick to say that there were " a few rough edges," but promised they'd be resolved by Tuesday.

Known for his dire warnings of crashes and recessions, Burry goes by "Cassandra" on X - a reference to the priestess from Greek mythology who was cursed to speak true prophecies but never to be believed. He burst back onto X in late October after more than two years of silence, and wasted no time firing off several warnings about a dangerous bubble in AI stocks.

We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well. How do we allow young people to build, communicate and hang out together? How do we build the future of communication at the same time? So we, you know, we've been, I think in a good way, working on this ever since we started. And when we were--this was almost 18 or 19 years ago--when we first launched the company and we had just four of us sitting in a room, we were literally the moderators, like we would rotate all the time.

It was really easy getting Google's Gemini app to make an image of a second shooter at Dealey Plaza, the White House ablaze, and Mickey Mouse flying a plane into the Twin Towers. We asked and it complied. There were few filters or guardrails, another sign that the battle over generative AI content moderation and copyright enforcement is not even close to being over.

It's never been easier to ditch Google search. Just ask Mohamed Mura, a 37-year-old professional based in London, who began pulling back from the search engine during the pandemic. Instead of typing into Google, he turned to TikTok for questions like "how to change a watch band." With the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, Mura's Google usage dropped further. He said the AI chatbot felt like a "second brain or agent" he could bounce ideas off of.

Recent friendly overtures aside, India does not always see eye to eye with China. But when it comes to the battle for eyeballs, the country's entertainment industry has taken a leaf out of the Chinese playbook. Micro-dramas, or 90 seconds to two-minute videos, loaded with hooks and wild plots, surpassed box office collections in China last year, building a near $7 billion industry, and the Chinese trend has made its way into India.

It feels like Microsoft is blindly racing toward another Windows 8 situation. Windows 8 was arguably the most divisive release of Windows in its 40-year history, as Microsoft attempted to overhaul the operating system for a touch-first future. Spooked by the iPad, the company shipped a radical overhaul that ditched the familiar Start menu and left users frustrated and confused. They weren't quite ready for the future that Microsoft envisioned.