In 2024, Elon Musk's jets made 355 flights, with 31 going to or from Mar-a-Lago, where President-elect Donald Trump resides. Musk's planes also visited swing states and Washington D.C. during Trump's campaign, indicating Musk's political interests.

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ChatGPT and Sora experienced a major outage for over four hours due to an issue with one of OpenAI's upstream providers. The services are slowly coming back online, but users may still experience issues loading their chat history.

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Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) requiring OpenAI to generate at least $100 billion in profits. OpenAI is not expected to reach this milestone until 2029.

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ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s developer API experienced a major outage for over an hour, caused by one of OpenAI’s upstream providers. This is the second disruption for OpenAI’s services this month.

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23andMe suffered a data breach exposing genetic and ancestry data of nearly 7 million customers. Hackers exploited weak security by brute-forcing access to thousands of accounts. 23andMe later implemented multi-factor authentication.

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Fisker, an electric vehicle startup, is facing bankruptcy after struggling to meet production and sales targets. The company's Ocean SUV has been plagued by software, mechanical, and safety issues, leading to production halts and investigations.

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Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has secured $6 billion in a Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to $12 billion. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, Blackrock, Fidelity, and other prominent investors, with Kingdom Holdings contributing approximately $400 million. This investment values xAI at $45 billion, nearly double its previous valuation.

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Bluesky is testing a trending topics feature, available in English, on its desktop and mobile apps. Users can disable it in settings.

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AMD is set to hold a press conference at CES 2025, where it is expected to unveil its next-gen GPU, possibly as part of the RX 8000 or RX 9000 series, to compete with Nvidia's RTX 5000 announcement.

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Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy's valuation has dropped to $456 million, a 92% decrease from its peak of $5.6 billion. This is despite securing over $200 million in fresh capital and preparing for an IPO in 2023. The drop in valuation follows a rights issue in 2023 due to a funding crunch and debt obligations.

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