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CHINA DISCUSSES SALE OF TIKTOK US TO MUSK AS ONE POSSIBLE OPTION (8
MINUTE READ) [9]

Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves
Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok. The plan involves X
taking control of the platform and running the businesses together. It
is unclear whether Musk, TikTok, or ByteDance have held any talks
about the terms of any possible deal. TikTok may no longer be in
ByteDance's sole control. Chinese officials recognize that they will
face tough negotiations with the Trump administration, so they see the
TikTok negotiations as a potential area for reconciliation.

USERS WORRIED ABOUT TIKTOK BAN APPEAR TO BE DOWNLOADING A DIFFERENT
CHINESE SOCIAL MEDIA APP (3 MINUTE READ) [10]

Chinese social media app RedNote is at the top of Apple's app store.
RedNote is often thought of as the Chinese equivalent of Instagram.
The company was founded in 2013 and had about 300 million monthly
active users in July 2024. It was valued at $17 billion in July - it
has raised over $900 million in total funding and has more than 2,000 employees. Many TikTok creators are rushing to find an alternative
platform where they can keep posting videos while waiting to see what
happens with TikTok, which faces a potential ban on January 19.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

STARLINK IS NOW CHEAPER THAN LEADING INTERNET PROVIDER IN SOME
AFRICAN COUNTRIES (5 MINUTE READ) [11]

Starlink, now available in more than 100 countries, is cheaper than
the leading fixed internet service provider in at least five of the 16
African countries where the service is available. The company does not
offer fixed rates - it instead adjusts prices to reflect market
conditions. Its satellites are able to provide services where
ground-based internet infrastructure is sparse or nonexistent.
Starlink has disrupted the existing internet service provider industry
in Kenya, where it became so popular that the company had to pause new subscriptions due to network overload.

BEZOS' HUGE NEW ROCKET LAUNCH SHUT DOWN MINUTES BEFORE LIFTOFF (3
MINUTE READ) [12]

Blue Origin was scheduled to lift off yesterday morning but the
mission was scrubbed right before it was scheduled to launch. The
company is now troubleshooting a vehicle subsystem issue and reviewing opportunities for its next launch. Blue Origin still has until January
16 to launch before the currently approved launch window elapses. Its
New Glenn rocket has faced many setbacks during its over a decade of development.

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THE PYTORCH DEVELOPER'S GUIDE TO JAX FUNDAMENTALS (9 MINUTE READ)
[14]

JAX is a high-performance numerical computing library with a
NumPy-like API. While many PyTorch users have heard about JAX, there
are not that many straightforward, easy-to-follow tutorials. This
tutorial helps readers understand the basics of JAX by connecting its
concepts to PyTorch building blocks. It explores the basics of the JAX ecosystem from the PyTorch user and guides users through how to train
a simple neural network with JAX and PyTorch.

O1 ISN'T A CHAT MODEL (AND THAT'S THE POINT) (13 MINUTE READ) [15]

o1 is not a chat model - it's like a report generator: give it enough
context, tell it what you want outputted, and it'll often nail the
solution in one shot. People often approach chat models by starting
with a simple question and some context, iterating back and forth
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possible otherwise it will just take questions at face value and won't
try to pull context from the user. The most effective way to use o1 is
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MISCELLANEOUS

THANKS TO NVIDIA, THERE'S A NEW GENERATION OF PCS COMING, AND THEY'LL
BE RUNNING LINUX (5 MINUTE READ) [16]

Nvidia's Project Digits will be powered by DGX OS, a customized
Ubuntu Linux 22.04 distro. The desktop combines Nvidia's Blackwell GPU
with a 20-core Grace CPU built on the Arm architecture. It can develop
up to 1 petaflop of AI performance at FP4 precision and support 200-billion-parameter large language models. Nvidia's partnership with
MediaTek will likely lead to a new generation of AI-powered PCs with significantly enhanced capabilities.

WORDPRESS IS IN TROUBLE (7 MINUTE READ) [17]

Automattic has announced that it will restrict its contributions to
the open source version of WordPress - it will now put in about 45
hours a week in total, down from nearly 4,000 a week. The company is
aiming to match the estimated hourly contributions of WP Engine as a
response to WP Engine's legal response after actions by WordPress
co-creator Matt Mullenweg. While usually, having the community take
the lead would be fine, Mullenweg has the final say over some very
important parts of the WordPress community. While it is fair for
Automattic to focus on for-profit projects, Mullenweg still holds all
the keys to WordPress. A fork is possible, but it will require new community-driven infrastructure.

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QUICK LINKS

US SPLITS WORLD INTO THREE TIERS FOR AI CHIP ACCESS (4 MINUTE READ)
[18]

The new regulations set specific numerical limits on AI chip exports,
with first-tier countries facing no restrictions.

WHY CEO MATT GARMAN IS WILLING TO BET AWS ON AI (65 MINUTE READ) [19]


This article contains a transcript of a podcast where CEO of Amazon
Web Services Matt Garman talks about AI and Amazon.

MICROSOFT CREATES NEW AI ENGINEERING GROUP LED BY FORMER META
EXECUTIVE (3 MINUTE READ) [20]

Former Meta engineering chief Jay Parikh will lead Microsoft's new
CoreAI - Platform and Tools division, which will combine the
company's Dev, Div, and AI platform teams together with some employees
on the Office of the CTO team to develop an AI platform and tools.

GOOGLE'S SEARCH MARKET SHARE DROPS BELOW 90% FOR FIRST TIME SINCE
2015 (2 MINUTE READ) [21]

Google's search market share seems to be fairly consistent in most
regions except Asia.

HERE'S A WORKING GAME OF TETRIS INSIDE A PDF (1 MINUTE READ) [22]

It has keyboard controls and should work on most browsers.

WHAT I WOULD TELL THE FRONTIER LABS (7 MINUTE READ) [23]

Humans learn by doing - AI short circuits the process and this could
slowly erode our ability to think differently.

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