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The number of short video app users in China has decreased by 300 million since December 2023, reaching 1.05 billion in June. This marks a slowdown in the growth of the market, which had seen steady increases in recent years.

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The U.S. has imposed sanctions on an Iranian and a Russian entity for attempting to interfere in the 2024 elections. The Iranian entity is a subordinate organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the Russian entity is an affiliate of Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU. These actors aimed to create socio-political tensions and influence the U.S. electorate.

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WWT acquires Canadian IT provider Softchoice for C$1.8 billion in an all-cash deal, pending shareholder and court approval.

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In 2024, 18 organizations surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 model in the Chatbot Arena Leaderboard, breaking the barrier of building a model as good as GPT-4.

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The US Treasury was hit by a cyberattack in December, attributed to Chinese government hackers, who gained access to unclassified documents and Treasury employee workstations.

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GitHub has a problem with fake 'stars' used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories, helping them reach more users.

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Intel had its worst year since going public in 1971, losing 61% of its value, while Broadcom's stock price soared 111% in 2024.

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Alipay has launched an AI-powered feature called 'Tanyixia' that generates information from images uploaded by users, allowing them to search for topics such as plants, animals, and more.

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