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Google revealed its next-gen flagship AI model, Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental, in a changelog for its Gemini chatbot app. The model was available to Gemini Advanced users beginning Thursday, but Google has since removed the mention of the model from its changelog. The new model provides better factuality and stronger performance for coding and mathematics-related tasks. It is still in early preview and can display unexpected behaviors. The model doesn't have access to real-time information and isn't compatible with some of the app's features.

OpenAI is in early talks to raise up to $40 billion in a funding round led by SoftBank. SoftBank, which will invest between $15 billion to $25 billion, is helping assemble investors for the rest of the round. The round would value OpenAI as high as $300 billion - the AI startup was last valued at $157 billion in October. The funding will be used to help OpenAI fulfill its roughly $18 billion commitment to the Stargate project, which will construct new data centers in the US to power OpenAI's technology.

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of a novel painkiller called suzetrigine for the treatment of short-term moderate-to-severe pain in adults. The new drug is the first of a new class of analgesics that aren't addictive. It selectively targets a sodium channel critical to pain signaling in the peripheral nervous system, inhibiting pain signals from being sent to the brain. The drug is not an opioid, which means that medical professionals now have an alternative to treating pain that doesn't require using a potentially addictive analgesic.

The US National Laboratories will be using OpenAI's AI models for scientific research and nuclear weapons security. Up to 15,000 scientists working at the National Laboratories will be able to access OpenAI's reasoning-focused o1 series. The new partnership will involve scientists using OpenAI's technology to enhance cybersecurity to protect the US power grid, identify new approaches to treating and preventing disease, deepen the understanding of fundamental mathematics and physics, and work on nuclear weapons. OpenAI will also work with Microsoft to deploy one of its models on a supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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JavaScript Temporal is a replacement for the Date object that makes date and time management reliable and predictable. It adds support for time zone and calendar representations and many methods for conversion, comparisons, computations, formatting, and more. JavaScript Temporal is starting to be shipped in experimental releases of browsers, making working with dates and times in JavaScript more simple. This post provides a quick overview of the new JavaScript object along with examples of how to implement it.

TypeZero is a zero-configuration TypeScript boilerplate for modern backend development. It features a blazing-fast development workflow with hot reload, enterprise-grade code quality tools, future-proof ESM architecture, and more. TypeZero can help developers build production-ready Node applications in seconds.

Google has announced a voluntary exit program for employees working in its Platforms & Devices group, which is responsible for Pixel hardware and Android software. The program applies to US employees in the division - Google has many people around the world working on its products, but the program is only for those stateside. Employees will receive a severance package. The program does not coincide with any product roadmap changes.

Apple's Services division, which includes the App Store, iCloud, Music, TV+, and other subscriptions, had an all-time revenue high of $26.3 billion last quarter. It generated nearly $100 billion in revenue over the past year. The company has over 1 billion subscriptions across its services. Expansions of offerings like Apple Arcade and Fitness+ contributed to the growth.

Microsoft will now offer Think Deeper, which was previously part of the $20 per month Copilot Pro subscription, for no extra cost to all Copilot users.

There's always an engineering strategy, even if there's nothing written down - strategy can be valuable for organizations that take it seriously.

cs16.css is a CSS library based on the Counter-Strike 1.6 UI.

It is clear that Meta is in desperate need of younger Facebook users to sustain itself for the next generation.

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The barriers between rationality and experimentation are eroding as bandwidth constraints continue to collapse.