Recently, an OpenAI employee publicly criticized Elon Musk's xAI company, saying that the benchmark results of its latest AI model Grok3 were misleading. In response, xAI co-founder Igor Babushkin insisted that the company was not improper. The xAI chart shows that two versions of Grok3 - Grok3 Reasoning Beta and Grok3 mini Reasoning - outperformed OpenAI's current strongest available model, o3-mini-high, at AIME 2025. However, OpenAI employees soon...
Binance Lianchuang CZ posted on the X platform that Binance (CEX) has always restricted employees from speculating in coins. This is of course to protect users. But the side effect is that product managers do not know much about user requests. "I can't control this, let their management decide," CZ said. "On Chain, you should really experience the product. Wait and try it with a few local dogs."
Developer "Calle" has warned of a vulnerability in the Lightning Network that allows hackers to remotely manipulate the payment status of Lightning invoices and steal funds by using nodes that are lower than the LND 0.18.5 or LITD 0.14.1. Satoshi Labs co-founder Pavol Rusnak also issued a similar warning, reminding Lightning Network users to update the node software as soon as possible. LND 0.18.5 and LITD 0.14.1 versions have fixed the vulnerability, but since the LND 0.18.5 was released only l...
Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, told staff that the board had not seen any official information from Mr. Musk. "As many of you know, Musk's statements have always been untenable," Mr. Altman wrote. Musk's lawyer, Marc Toberoff, said Monday that Musk and a group of investors had made an offer to buy OpenAI for $97.40 billion.
Troy Maker, Trump's nominee for Air Force chief of staff and now a senior official at the National Spy Satellite Agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar satellite invite tenders contract in favor of Musk's SpaceX. According to sources, changes in classified contract requirements led the Inspector General of the National Reconnaissance Office to begin an investigation into whether official Troy Maker improperly directed the deal to SpaceX. Musk's space program eventually won the contract in 2021. ...
The developers of Geth, the Ethereum client side, released a version of the 1.14.13 codenamed "Schwarzschild" on Thursday. This release explicitly addresses a vulnerability affecting the peer-to-peer (p2p) layer of Geth that could result in Distributed Denial-of-service to nodes running them, and possibly the layer 2 client side. Geth is the most widely used execution layer client side of Ethereum. The vulnerability is classified as CVE-2025-24883, stating that the Geth version "is vulnerable to...
The Fed's December meeting notes that staff forecasts that economic conditions in the United States will remain solid. Real GDP growth is expected to slow slightly from the previous baseline forecast, and the unemployment rate is expected to rise slightly, but still close to the staff's estimate of the natural rate of unemployment. In the staff's baseline forecast, the inflation forecast for 2024 is slightly higher than the forecast made at the last meeting, reflecting an unexpected upside from ...
Federal Reserve meeting notes: Staff believe US President-elect Trump's trade policies will lead to high inflation in 2025.
"Over the past 25 years, we have always been at the forefront of technology, and we have always believed that technological innovation is Baidu's core competitiveness," Robin Li, Baidu's founder, said in an evening letter. The letter expressed expectations for 2025. "Although super applications have not yet appeared, the actual penetration rate of AI is not low, and it will continue to grow exponentially in 2025." (Jin Ten) original link
Many of Yoon's senior aides collectively offered their resignation to South Korea's acting president, Choi Sang-mu.
International monetary fund staff and El Salvador have reached a tentative agreement on a new arrangement under the international monetary fund's medium-term lending facility, in the amount of about 1.40 billion dollars, to support the government's reform agenda. However, the government's participation in crypto e-wallets (Chivo) will be phased out.
The latest analysis by the staff of the New York Federal Reserve shows that during the first term of US President-elect Trump, the stock prices of US companies generally fell on the day the tariffs were announced, and they were closely related to the decline in future profits, sales and employment of the companies hardest hit by the stock prices. "Imposition on imported goods...
The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed that since 4:22 am local time today (December 4), all troops invested in emergency martial law have been withdrawn.
The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed that since 4:22 am local time today (December 4), all troops invested in emergency martial law have been withdrawn. (CCTV International News)
Fed meeting notes: Staff noted that lowering the overnight reverse repo rate by five basis points would bring it in line with the bottom of the target range for the federal funds rate and could put some downward pressure on other money market rates.