OpenAI is in early talks to raise up to $40 billion in a funding round
led by SoftBank. SoftBank is helping assemble investors for the
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BIG TECH & STARTUPS

GOOGLE QUIETLY ANNOUNCES ITS NEXT FLAGSHIP AI MODEL (2 MINUTE READ)
[7]

Google revealed its next-gen flagship AI model, Gemini 2.0 Pro
Experimental, in a changelog for its Gemini chatbot app. The model was available to Gemini Advanced users beginning Thursday, but Google has
since removed the mention of the model from its changelog. The new
model provides better factuality and stronger performance for coding
and mathematics-related tasks. It is still in early preview and can
display unexpected behaviors. The model doesn't have access to
real-time information and isn't compatible with some of the app's
features.

OPENAI IN TALKS FOR HUGE INVESTMENT ROUND VALUING IT UP TO $300
BILLION (3 MINUTE READ) [8]

OpenAI is in early talks to raise up to $40 billion in a funding
round led by SoftBank. SoftBank, which will invest between $15 billion
to $25 billion, is helping assemble investors for the rest of the
round. The round would value OpenAI as high as $300 billion - the AI
startup was last valued at $157 billion in October. The funding will
be used to help OpenAI fulfill its roughly $18 billion commitment to
the Stargate project, which will construct new data centers in the US
to power OpenAI's technology.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

FDA APPROVES NEW CLASS OF PAINKILLER - THE FIRST IN MORE THAN 20
YEARS (2 MINUTE READ) [9]

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of a novel
painkiller called suzetrigine for the treatment of short-term moderate-to-severe pain in adults. The new drug is the first of a new
class of analgesics that aren't addictive. It selectively targets a
sodium channel critical to pain signaling in the peripheral nervous
system, inhibiting pain signals from being sent to the brain. The drug
is not an opioid, which means that medical professionals now have an alternative to treating pain that doesn't require using a potentially
addictive analgesic.

OPENAI PARTNERS WITH U.S. NATIONAL LABORATORIES ON SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH, NUCLEAR WEAPONS SECURITY (3 MINUTE READ) [10]

The US National Laboratories will be using OpenAI's AI models for
scientific research and nuclear weapons security. Up to 15,000
scientists working at the National Laboratories will be able to access
OpenAI's reasoning-focused o1 series. The new partnership will involve scientists using OpenAI's technology to enhance cybersecurity to
protect the US power grid, identify new approaches to treating and
preventing disease, deepen the understanding of fundamental
mathematics and physics, and work on nuclear weapons. OpenAI will also
work with Microsoft to deploy one of its models on a supercomputer at
Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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JAVASCRIPT TEMPORAL IS COMING (5 MINUTE READ) [12]

JavaScript Temporal is a replacement for the Date object that makes
date and time management reliable and predictable. It adds support for
time zone and calendar representations and many methods for
conversion, comparisons, computations, formatting, and more.
JavaScript Temporal is starting to be shipped in experimental releases
of browsers, making working with dates and times in JavaScript more
simple. This post provides a quick overview of the new JavaScript
object along with examples of how to implement it.

TYPEZERO (GITHUB REPO) [13]

TypeZero is a zero-configuration TypeScript boilerplate for modern
backend development. It features a blazing-fast development workflow
with hot reload, enterprise-grade code quality tools, future-proof ESM architecture, and more. TypeZero can help developers build
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MISCELLANEOUS

GOOGLE OFFERING `VOLUNTARY EXIT' FOR EMPLOYEES WORKING ON PIXEL,
ANDROID (2 MINUTE READ) [14]

Google has announced a voluntary exit program for employees working
in its Platforms & Devices group, which is responsible for Pixel
hardware and Android software. The program applies to US employees in
the division - Google has many people around the world working on its
products, but the program is only for those stateside. Employees will
receive a severance package. The program does not coincide with any
product roadmap changes.

APPLE TOPS 1 BILLION SUBSCRIPTIONS, NEARLY $100B IN SERVICES REVENUE
IN 2024 (2 MINUTE READ) [15]

Apple's Services division, which includes the App Store, iCloud,
Music, TV+, and other subscriptions, had an all-time revenue high of
$26.3 billion last quarter. It generated nearly $100 billion in
revenue over the past year. The company has over 1 billion
subscriptions across its services. Expansions of offerings like Apple
Arcade and Fitness+ contributed to the growth.

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There's always an engineering strategy, even if there's nothing
written down - strategy can be valuable for organizations that take it seriously.

CS16.CSS (WEBSITE) [17]

cs16.css is a CSS library based on the Counter-Strike 1.6 UI.

MICROSOFT MAKES OPENAI'S O1 REASONING MODEL FREE FOR ALL COPILOT
USERS (1 MINUTE READ) [18]

Microsoft will now offer Think Deeper, which was previously part of
the $20 per month Copilot Pro subscription, for no extra cost to all
Copilot users.

MARK ZUCKERBERG TEASES A 2025 RETURN TO `OG FACEBOOK' (3 MINUTE
READ) [19]

It is clear that Meta is in desperate need of younger Facebook users
to sustain itself for the next generation.

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A collection of advice given from one friend to another about
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