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Techmeme - 2024-12-26T04:30:21-05:00

An in-depth analysis of 62 AI queries: ChatGPT search beat Google on content gap analysis and disambiguation queries, but Google was better for most searches (Eric Enge/Search Engine Land) - 2024-12-26T04:30:00-05:00

AppLovin was 2024's top performing US tech stock, up 758% as of December 24, followed by MicroStrategy, up 467%, and Palantir, up 380%; the Nasdaq jumped 33% (Ari Levy/CNBC) - 2024-12-26T02:30:00-05:00

Japan Airlines halts ticket sales after a cyberattack hit its network equipment, causing delays to more than 40 flights, and says flight safety was not impacted (New York Times) - 2024-12-26T00:20:32-05:00

Netflix's first livestream of NFL games avoided major buffering and freezing issues that plagued the Tyson-Paul fight for the most part, after early glitches (Richard Deitsch/New York Times) - 2024-12-25T23:15:22-05:00

A look at Toontown Rewritten, an unofficial recreation of Disney's Toontown Online game that shut down in 2013; Toontown Rewritten now has 10K DAUs and 50K MAUs (J. Clara Chan/Wired) - 2024-12-25T21:50:02-05:00

Examining Biden's tech legacy and the CHIPS Act, as the White House says $446B has been announced for chips and electronics manufacturing since he took office (Politico) - 2024-12-25T19:50:03-05:00

Alibaba releases QvQ-72B-Preview, an experimental research model focused on "enhancing visual reasoning capabilities", built on Qwen2-VL-72B (Qwen) - 2024-12-25T17:35:03-05:00

Analysis: in 2024, ~66% of 39 public digital health companies lost value, while the Nasdaq rose 32%; in 2021, digital health startups raised a record $29.1B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) - 2024-12-25T15:35:04-05:00

Analysis: Coinbase International saw its total trading volume grow 124% week-over-week to $119B+ this past week, up from $2.5B per day average in November 2024 (The Block) - 2024-12-25T13:40:01-05:00

Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments to counter Western sanctions (Gleb Bryanski/Reuters) - 2024-12-25T11:15:10-05:00

A look at the more challenging AI evaluations emerging in response to the rapid progress of models, including FrontierMath, Humanity's Last Exam, and RE-Bench (Tharin Pillay/Time) - 2024-12-25T09:20:00-05:00

Taiwan's FTC blocks Uber's $950M acquisition of Delivery Hero's Foodpanda, arguing it would decrease competition as their combined market share would be 90%+ (Bloomberg) - 2024-12-25T07:25:00-05:00

Benchmarking AMD's MI300X and Nvidia's H100 and H200; in theory, AMD's GPU has advantages in specs and total cost of ownership, but software bugs hold it back (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis) - 2024-12-25T04:30:01-05:00

Kaiko: the share of BTC-USD trades in US market hours has now climbed to ~53% from 40% in 2021, with crypto liquidity back at levels seen before FTX's collapse (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg) - 2024-12-25T02:30:02-05:00

Opensignal ranks Japan #1 in G7 mobile reliability experience between July 1 and September 28, followed by France, Germany, the US, Canada, Italy, and the UK (Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu/Financial Times) - 2024-12-25T01:55:02-05:00