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Heat from traffic is contributing to rises in city temperatures, study finds
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a new way to measure how traffic contributes to rising urban temperatures, revealing that everyday vehicle use can play a measurable role in making cities warmer. The researchers created a new physics-based module that allows heat produced by urban traffic to be represented directly within the Community Earth System Model (CESM)—one of the world's most widely used global climate models for predicting how Earth's climate behaves.

Peter Thiel looks like an imaginary villain from a Dan Brown novel, the problem, he is real...
https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/
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Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example
The Gen Z Swedish climate activist is a legionnaire of the Antichrist, Thiel claims, a “Luddite” who wants to halt technological progress in its tracks.

Source: Meta shutters an internal, employee-built leaderboard, dubbed Claudeonomics, tracking staff token usage, due to the data "being shared externally" (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/meta-shutters-intern…

Meta Shutters Internal AI Token Leaderboard
Meta Platforms has taken down an internal, employee-built leaderboard tracking how many tokens staffers were using. The dashboard, which employees referred to as Claudeonomics, showed total usage over a recent 30-day period across the company amounted to over 60 trillion tokens, The Information reported on Monday. The top-ranked individual user averaged 281 billion tokens, which could cost

Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by MrBeast and last valued at $5.2B, acquires Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app (Valida Pau/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mrbeasts-beast-industries-buy-ge…

MrBeast’s Beast Industries to Buy Gen Z–Focused Banking App
Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, has agreed to buy Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app, the companies plan to announce Monday. The acquisition will expand the YouTube star’s reach beyond media, restaurants and packaged food into financial ...

ByteDance releases Seedance 2.0, an update to its AI video generation model that can make multi-shot scenes, available to select Jimeng and Jianying users (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/bytedances-seedance-2-0…

ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 Video Model Generates Buzz
ByteDance’s new AI video generation model Seedance 2.0, unveiled over the weekend, is generating a lot of buzz on social media, with some calling it a game changer. The new model is the latest indication of how Chinese companies are playing central roles in the advancements of AI video technology, and confirms an earlier report by The Information. Early users of the model are praising its

Memo: Alibaba Cloud CTO Jingren Zhou will step down as CTO to focus on leading AI models in the new role of chief AI architect; executive Feifei Li becomes CTO (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/alibaba-streamlines…

Alibaba Streamlines Responsibilities for AI Executive
Alibaba Group senior executive Jingren Zhou, who is in charge of AI model development, will stop serving as Alibaba Cloud’s chief technology officer and concentrate on his AI role, according to an internal memo. In the latest reorganization, Alibaba also appointed Zhou the chief AI architect of its newly created technology committee chaired by CEO Eddie Wu, according to the memo, which Wu sent

The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/iran-war-imperils-300-billio…

Iran War Imperils $300 Billion in Gulf AI Spending
The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend more than $300 billion on data centers, chips and other AI investments, crimping a potential source of funding for power-hungry tech companies. Countries such as the UAEand Saudi Arabia have become big destinations for data centers. ...

This year's projected capex ramp-up will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google, and Meta, potentially forcing stock buyback cuts or more borrowing (Martin Peers/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/capex-ramp-will-squeez…

How Capex Ramp Up Will Squeeze Google, Amazon, Meta
Big tech’s dramatic ramp-up in projected capital expenditures this year will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google and Meta Platforms. That will force some of those companies to make some difficult choices, such as whether to end stock buybacks or borrow more money. The good news is ...