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Google blames AI as its emissions grow instead of heading to net zero (www.aljazeera.com)

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The company has made one of industry’s most significant climate commitments and has been seen as a leader.

Rather than declining, its emissions grew 13 percent in 2023 over the year before. Compared with its baseline year of 2019, emissions have soared 48 percent.

Google cited artificial intelligence and the demand it puts on data centres, which require massive amounts of electricity, for last year’s growth.

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Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler (www.tomshardware.com)

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Japan Rejects US Punishments On China, Japan Giant Toyota Desperate For Shanghai EV Factory (www.youtube.com)

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According to research by IDC and Omdia, 8 of the 10 largest smartphone companies in 2023 were Chinese, and they represented over 52% of global sales. (lemmy.ml)

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source https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS51776424

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CATL expects its batteries to power electric aircraft with up to 3,000 km range (cnevpost.com)

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Chinese scientists create robot with brain made from human stem cells (www.scmp.com)

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New Flywheel Free Energy?! Can Boat Battery Fry You? LATITY-013 (youtube.com)

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Alibaba's Qwen LLM model leading open source rankings (huggingface.co)

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TwoBitDavinci: BUSTED!! (youtube.com)

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EU Warns Its Chipmakers Could Lose Market Share in China (www.bloomberg.com)

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https://archive.ph/wqlga

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Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs (arstechnica.com)

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Rumor says Huawei 5nm chip small-scale production already started (www.huaweicentral.com)

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Progression of MacBooks (lemmygrad.ml)

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The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops (www.theverge.com)

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First Horizon Bank system detects when a call center worker was on the brink of "losing it" and plays an AI-made montage of family photos set to their favorite song to calm them down. (www.bloodinthemachine.com)

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We live in a sci-fi dystopia.

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U.S. as many as 15 years behind China on nuclear power, report says (www.japantimes.co.jp)

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Russia aims to mass produce 28nm chips by 2027 and 14nm by 2030. While not impressive by cutting edge standards, it's certainly sufficient for a lot of uses. (www.tomshardware.com)

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By using the same techniques Google used to solve Go (MTCS and backprop), Llama8B gets 96.7% on math benchmark GSM8K. That’s better than GPT-4, Claude and Gemini, with 200x less parameters! (arxiv.org)

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The Era of Total U.S. Submarine Dominance Over China Is Ending (www.wsj.com)

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America’s assassination attempt on Huawei is backfiring (www.economist.com)

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DC-ROMA Laptop II packs an octa-core RISC-V processor, 16GB of RAM and Ubuntu Linux (liliputing.com)

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Kenwood Blew my Mind - NXR-800K. Repair. How Right to repair should be. (invidious.incogniweb.net)

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OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board of Directors (openai.com)

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Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret: Founder Liquidity (www.stefantheard.com)

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This lib article bemoans that it’s only founders who get liquidity at startups, but it is still worth reading to have another datapoint on how the “risks” capitalists take to found their businesses are elaborate illusions: tech startup founders take millions behind closed doors, even at very early stages.

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Chinese surgeon takes remote surgery to new level with Rome-Beijing procedure (www.scmp.com)

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