A look at Amazon's revamped drone delivery program near Phoenix, Arizona, where the company's new MK-30 drones deliver dozens of packages a day to customers (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
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Published on 2024-12-22
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Preqin data: Southeast Asia's AI startups raised just $1.7B across 122 deals so far in 2024, out of ~$20B across 1,845 deals for the whole Asia-Pacific region (Bloomberg)
How Britannica survived the Wikipedia era by changing itself into a maker of education software and AI agents, as it reportedly weighs an IPO at a $1B valuation (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
Tesla's shares are up 73% since Election Day, as several analysts see the Trump administration easing rules for self-driving tech, benefiting Tesla's ambitions (Esha Dey/Bloomberg)
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a "fool's errand", and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing (Wall Street Journal)
A look at India's quick food delivery market as Swiggy and Zomato enter the sector; report: online food delivery market in India to reach $15B by March 2029 (Satviki Sanjay/Bloomberg)
Exploring the scaling challenges of transformer-based LLMs in efficiently processing large amounts of text, as well as potential solutions, such as RAG systems (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)
The US NHTSA suggests easing rules allowing for fully driverless cars and urges companies operating driverless cars to share more data for greater transparency (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
Published on 2024-12-21
Report: hedge funds employing crypto strategies posted 46% gains in November, bringing their YTD returns to 76%, outpacing the industry average of 10% YTD gains (Financial Times)
