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GOOGLE ENDS ITS 30 PERCENT APP STORE FEE AND WELCOMES THIRD-PARTY APP
STORES (4 MINUTE READ) [6]
Google will lower its Play Store fee to 20%, and 15% for new installs
of apps from developers participating in its new App Experience
program or updated Google Play Games Level Up program. Subscription
fees have been lowered to 10%. Google will now charge developers in
the UK, US, and European Economic Area a 5% fee for using its billing
system and a market-specific rate in other regions. Developers can
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for purchases. Third-party app stores can now apply to Google's
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TERRAPOWER GETS OK TO START CONSTRUCTION OF ITS FIRST NUCLEAR PLANT
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The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a construction
approval to TerraPower to begin working on a site in Kemmerer,
Wyoming. TerraPower, financially backed by Bill Gates, is attempting
to build a sodium-cooled reactor that incorporates energy storage as
part of its design. The project is expected to be completed in 2030,
but delays are expected as it is a first-of-its-kind project. It is
being built as a joint public-private partnership as part of the
Department of Energy's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program.
LARGE GENOME MODEL: OPEN SOURCE AI TRAINED ON TRILLIONS OF BASES (8
MINUTE READ) [8]
Evo 2 is an open-source AI model trained on genomes from all three
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Every new generation of agents will force engineers to rethink what
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KRAKEN BECOMES FIRST CRYPTO FIRM TO WIN ACCESS TO FED'S CORE PAYMENTS
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Crypto firm Kraken's banking unit has won access to the Federal
Reserve's core payment systems. The approval of the master account
will allow Kraken Financial to handle transactions more quickly and
seamlessly for big clients and professional traders. The approval is a
major win for the crypto industry, which has been rebuffed for years
in its efforts to tap into the system. It makes Kraken the first
crypto firm to be able to move money on the same rails used by
thousands of banks and credit unions.
AI THOUGHTS (9 MINUTE READ) [13]
The runaway intelligence case probably won't happen because the
amount of electricity we can generate and the number of chips we can
make is pretty limited. Models will certainly be useful in creating
the next generation of models in the same way computers are useful
tools when designing the next generation of computers, and it seems
reasonable to expect that we'll eventually make an AI that is better
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The things that survive in a world where software is cheap to produce
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WHEN THE MODEL IS THE MACHINE (15 MINUTE READ) [17]
The value of writing code is falling, but the value of knowing what
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CLIs are the lowest-friction interface for AI agents to reach
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