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Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time; the stock rose 10%, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015, resulting in a valuation of $2.15T (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alphabet Leaps Into $2 Trillion Club as Results Show AI Strength
Alphabet Inc. jumped decisively above a $2 trillion market capitalization on Friday, as a powerhouse earnings report reassured investors that the Google parent would be a major player in artificial intelligence.

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Putin confirms he will visit China in May: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/putin-confirms-he.html

In response to a query for news stories about Putin's comments on Navalny's death, Microsoft's AI-assisted search Copilot invented Putin quotes (Rani Molla/Sherwood Media)
https://sherwoodmedia.com/news/microso

Microsoft's Copilot AI search is making up fake Vladimir Putin quotes from press conferences that never happened
Microsoft really wants you to use its new Copilot AI-assisted search. Not only was the service featured in an expensive Super Bowl spot, but...

"Yet the world I fear is one where these people are allowed to run rampant, turning unique content into food for an ugly, inbred monster of an internet, one that turns everybody's information sources into semi-personalized versions of the same content. These people have names — Sam Altman of OpenAI, Sundar Pichai of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (which has its own model called LLaMA), Dario Amodei of Anthropic, and Satya Nadella of Microsoft — and they are responsible for trying t…

Are We Watching The Internet Die?
Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual price,

A profile of Bolt founder Ryan Breslow, who raised a $355M Series E in 2022, setting off 18 months of acrimonious lawsuits and a showdown with an early backer (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2024/03/11/the-bill…

The Billion-Dollar Unraveling Of The 'King' Of Silicon Valley
The Silicon Valley wunderkind rode his fintech unicorn Bolt to the bank. Then came the lawsuits and money squabbles — and a brutal valuation crash that wiped out much of his fortune.

Axion Dark Matter from Heavy Quarks
Mohammad Aghaie, Giovanni Armando, Angela Conaci, Alessandro Dondarini, Peter Matak, Paolo Panci, Zuzana Sinska, Robert Ziegler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12199

Axion Dark Matter from Heavy Quarks
We propose simple scenarios where the observed dark matter abundance arises from decays and scatterings of heavy quarks through freeze-in of an axion-like particle with mass in the $10 {\rm \, keV} - 1 {\rm \, MeV}$ range. These models can be tested by future X-ray telescopes, and in some cases will be almost entirely probed by searches for two-body decays $K \to π+ {\rm invis.}$ at NA62. As a byproduct, we discuss the cancellation of IR divergencies in flavor-violating scattering processes re…

Western leaders denounce Putin's election 'victory,' fall short of refusing to recognize results: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/19/western-leaders-denounce.html

Kyiv: Russia lost nearly 50,000 troops in battle for Avdiivka: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/18/kyiv-russia-lost.html