San Francisco’s pro-billionaire march draws dozens

Saturday’s march in support of California’s billionaires didn’t exactly draw a huge crowd – San Francisco Chronicle counts There were about three dozen attendees, as well as a dozen other vocal counter-protesters. To be fair, organizer Derrick Kauffman did Only “a few dozen” were predicted to be present in advance.. But the “March for Billionaires”…

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Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all

Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmark Measuring the capabilities of AI agents on professional tasks such as law and corporate analysis. At the time, the scores were quite disappointing, with every major lab scoring below 25%, so we concluded that lawyers were safe from AI displacement, at least for now. But AI capabilities…

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How Elon Musk is rewriting the rules on founder power

Elon Musk has SpaceX and XAI mergerBlueprinting a new Silicon Valley power structure. With its $800 billion net worth already rivaling the peak market capitalization of historic conglomerate GE, and Musk being vocal about his view that “technological victories are decided by the velocity of innovation,” the question is not whether. personal group can be…

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China’s Salt Typhoon hackers broke into Norwegian companies

Norway government has accused China-backed hacking group salt storm Burglary in many organizations of the country. In a report Published on Friday, the Norwegian Police Security Service said the hacking group, which is working for the Chinese government, targeted vulnerable network devices to spy. Norway is the latest country to confirm incursions related to Typhoon…

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Google’s subscriptions rise in Q4 as YouTube pulls $60B in yearly revenue

Alphabet-owned YouTube’s subscription and advertising revenues are trending upward. The company said Wednesday it now has 325 million paying users on Google One and YouTube Premium, up from 300 million three months ago. YouTube reported fourth-quarter advertising revenue rose 9% to $11.38 billion, but missed analysts’ average estimate of $11.84 billion. YouTube’s revenue, including advertising…

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