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2025 rund 10 Prozent deutscher Gasimporte über LNG-Terminals
Wegen des russischen Angriffskriegs auf die Ukraine hat Deutschland den Bau von Flüssigerdgas-Terminals forciert. Ihr Anteil am Gasimport steigt weiter.

Local governments across China are funding dozens of "robot training centers", where human trainers mimic movements like folding clothes to teach the robots (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-robots-training-centers-workers/

In Chinese data factories, workers teach humanoid robots boring tasks
Local governments are building training centers to address a shortage of robotic data, as China makes embodied intelligence a national priority.

Key Russian terminal exported $8.4 billion of LNG to Europe in 2025, watchdog finds: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/key-russian-terminal-exported-billion.html

The city turning lawns into pollinator meadows
Jennifer Cole
Nov 7, 2025
In #Vancouver, a city-led (and research-backed) initiative is converting chunks of park land into wilder ecosystems.
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The city turning lawns into pollinator meadows
In Vancouver, a city-led (and research-backed) initiative is converting chunks of park land into wilder ecosystems.

Mid-Training of Large Language Models: A Survey
Kaixiang Mo, Yuxin Shi, Weiwei Weng, Zhiqiang Zhou, Shuman Liu, Haibo Zhang, Anxiang Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06826 https:…

Mid-Training of Large Language Models: A Survey
Large language models (LLMs) are typically developed through large-scale pre-training followed by task-specific fine-tuning. Recent advances highlight the importance of an intermediate mid-training stage, where models undergo multiple annealing-style phases that refine data quality, adapt optimization schedules, and extend context length. This stage mitigates diminishing returns from noisy tokens, stabilizes convergence, and expands model capability in late training. Its effectiveness can be ex…

Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/08/protege-raises-30m-grow-…

Protege raises $30M to grow governed marketplace for AI training data - SiliconANGLE
Protege raises $30M to grow governed marketplace for AI training data - SiliconANGLE

URGENT: 2025 became turning point in war – Russia exhausted, Ukraine strikes deep. What Next?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/urgent-became-turning-point-in.html

CEO von Telefónica Deutschland: Hesse folgt auf Haas
Nach der plötzlichen Trennung von Markus Haas übernimmt Santiago Argelich Hesse die Führung von Telefónica Deutschland. Er kommt vom Funkturmbetreiber Cellnex.
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A technical deep dive into Amazon's Trainium3 accelerator, including its server SKUs' specifications, silicon design, power budget, and bill of materials (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/aws-trainium3-deep-dive-a-potential

AWS Trainium3 Deep Dive | A Potential Challenger Approaching
NL72x2/NL32x2 Scale Up Rack Architecture, Step-Function Software & System Improvements, Optimized Perf per TCO, “Amazon Basics” GB200 NVL36x2, Astera Labs, Trainium4

Turning point in Paris! West prepares to take Ukraine's security under control: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/07/turning-point-in-paris-west.html