Sources: Wall Street banks led by Morgan Stanley have offloaded almost all of Elon Musk's $12.5B in loans used to buy Twitter, and now hold $1B+ in X debt — Investor perception of debt has changed since Donald Trump's election victory — Wall Street banks have rid themselves of almost …
New junior developers are reliant on Copilot, Claude, and other AI tools, meaning foundational coding knowledge is now missing, creating problems down the road — 100k+ views 70+ votes 50+ votes — Something's been bugging me about how new devs and I need to talk about it.
Chinese President Xi meets with Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, and more, signaling Beijing's support for the long-marginalized sector — - Meeting signals a more supportive stance toward private firms — Xi's presence marks a potentially powerful endorsement
Tencent is testing DeepSeek for search in its messaging app Weixin, while Baidu plans to fully connect its search engine to DeepSeek and its own LLM Ernie — Tencent said on Sunday its (0700.HK) Weixin messaging app, China's largest, is allowing some users to search via DeepSeek's artificial …
Some Bolivians, frustrated with spotty internet from the state's China-built satellite, are smuggling in Starlink kits despite the country's ban in August 2024 — Bolivia, which relies on a Chinese-built satellite for some of its connectivity, banned Starlink — but that hasn't stopped people …
India's BharatNet program to provide broadband access to 650K villages by 2025 is set to fall short of its target, with only 199K having broadband as of January — As of January 2025, only 1.99 lakh villages out of 6.5 lakh villages or 30.4% had broadband internet access
Romance scams may rise as isolation grows and generative AI helps scammers scale; the FBI says US victims lost nearly $4.5B to such scams over the past decade — Romance scams cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As people grow increasingly isolated, and generative AI helps scammers scale …
Argentina's president Javier Milei backtracks on an X post promoting a memecoin called Libra, which rose to a $4.4B market cap before plunging by 95%+ — Milei deleted his original promotional tweet and revealed that he wasn't aware of its details. — What to know:
CB Insights: a record 1,200 VC-backed unicorns have yet to IPO or get acquired; Carta: fewer than 30% of 2021 unicorns raised funding in the past three years — The billion-dollar startup bubble is deflating, and more than $1 trillion in value is locked up in companies with dwindling prospects.
A profile of Watch Duty creator John Clarke Mills, who wants the fire-tracking app to become a one-stop shop for information during any disaster — Watch Duty proved indispensable during the recent LA wildfires. John Mills, the app's creator, wants it to be the one place to go for tracking disasters.
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg's overtures to President Trump have unsettled employees and are part of an effort to shift antitrust scrutiny off Meta and onto Apple — Mark Zuckerberg kicked off 2025 with an Instagram video that outlined his vision for what he called restoring “free expression” …
The doge.gov website tracking Elon Musk's cuts to the federal government pulls from a database editable by anyone, say two sources who found the vulnerability — The doge.gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musk's cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database …
Sources: the White House plans to renegotiate some Chips Act awards after reassessing requirements, and has signaled delays to some upcoming disbursements — The White House is seeking to renegotiate U.S. CHIPS and Science Act awards and has signaled delays to some upcoming semiconductor disbursements …
Sony reports PlayStation 5 sales in Q3 were 9.5M, the best quarter since its launch, and hits 75M total PS5 sales; MAUs across its platform rose 43% YoY to 129M — PS5 SHIPMENTS ARE NOW NECK-AND-NECK WITH PS4 — PlayStation 5 enjoyed its best-ever holiday period in 2024 …
Elon Musk and right-wing influencers redefine “doxxing” to include reporting on government employees; free speech advocates say they aim to intimidate the press — Right-wing influencers are criticizing journalists who have published public information about government employees.
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-worl...
