How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's o1 could accelerate research on AI itself and calls for more urgent AI regulation to protect the public (Yoshua Bengio/Financial Times)
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TechInsights: China's chip self-sufficiency rate rose from ~14% in 2014 to 23% in 2023 and is expected to hit 27% in 2027, as China rushes to boost chip supply (Nikkei Asia)
UK inflation accelerated sharply to 2.3% in October
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Lisbon-based Tekever, which builds aerial surveillance drones that can serve as the communication and navigation hub for swarms of smaller drones, raised €70M (Bloomberg)
Quicksave announces QSApp to make WebGL more accessible through no-code editors
The head of the axed £800M UK supercomputer project warns that the UK, which no longer has a machine ranked in the global top 50, risks falling behind rivals (Anna Gross/Financial Times)
Japanese, Koreans bottom of global love life survey