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Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax raised $600M led by Alibaba at a $2.5B valuation; the round remains in progress and HongShan has committed funds (Jane Zhang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alibaba Backs $2.5 Billion AI Startup in Second Major 2024 Deal
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is leading a financing round of at least $600 million for Chinese AI startup MiniMax, spearheading its second major deal in the space this year as it deploys capital in pursuit of growth.

Espresso time again 😋 one week to relax before the lectures of the summer semester are about to start. This year, my Information Service Engineering lecture has significantly changed due to the rise of #llms and #generativeAI. I’ll keep you posted in the upcoming 14 weeks.

It’s rare you get a chance to ask a Minister of a government a question (even indirectly through a radio show).
I'm happy I got that chance last Thursday. You can listen below. (Start from 2:36 if you'd like to skip some).
The BC Minister of Post-Secondary says a lot of platitudes and half-truths about increases in ‘operating grants’ and capital funding. Fact is: School is more expensive than ever and institutions and students are struggling.

I will again remind you this is how I answer phone calls:
Hello this is Pete, how can I assist you today?
(wait 2 seconds)
Please state the nature of your call.
(wait 2 seconds)
This call is being monitored.
* At this point 90% of the callers hang up. If they do not, I keep going.
We require all participants of the call to speak...
(wait 2 seconds)
If you do not speak now, the call will terminate.
* I then hang up.
* I almost …

Kunst-Projekt: KI-Kamera generiert live Nacktbilder des Fotomodels
In Sekundenschnelle erstellt die Kamera "Nuca" eine Nackbild-Version anhand des Menschen, der vor der Linse steht. Ein Kunstprojekt, das provozieren will.

On token signed graphs
C. Dalf\'o, M. A. Fiol, E. Steffen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02924 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.02924

On token signed graphs
We introduce the concept of a $k$-token signed graph and study some of its combinatorial and algebraic properties. We prove that two switching isomorphic signed graphs have switching isomorphic token graphs. Moreover, we show that the Laplacian spectrum of a balanced signed graph is contained in the Laplacian spectra of its $k$-token signed graph. Besides, we introduce and study the unbalance level of a signed graph, which is a new parameter that measures how far a signed graph is from being ba…

Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax raised $600M led by Alibaba at a $2.5B valuation; the round remains in progress and HongShan has committed funds (Jane Zhang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alibaba Backs $2.5 Billion AI Startup in Second Major 2024 Deal
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is leading a financing round of at least $600 million for Chinese AI startup MiniMax, spearheading its second major deal in the space this year as it deploys capital in pursuit of growth.

#Verpasstodon
Neuer Rekord in der Fusionsforschung: Südkoreanischer KSTAR erreicht Meilenstein
Fortschritt in der Fusionsenergieforschung: KSTAR erreicht 48 Sekunden Plasma-Stabilität bei 100 Millionen Grad.

Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all suffering an outage, which seemed to start around 10am ET (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091207/meta-outage-facebook-instagram-threads-down-signed-out

Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads are all down
Facebook is down, along with Instagram, Messenger, and Threads. Meta’s status page confirmed a login issue, but there is no ETA for when access will be restored.

Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all suffering an outage, which seemed to start around 10am ET (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091207/meta-outage-facebook-instagram-threads-down-signed-out

Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads are all down
Facebook is down, along with Instagram, Messenger, and Threads. Meta’s status page confirmed a login issue, but there is no ETA for when access will be restored.