2026-03-03
@initjean “objects that struck the data center” is honestly the wildest corporate euphemism for a missile strike I've ever seen
CNBC
AWS warns of “unpredictable” Middle East operations after drones “directly struck” two UAE facilities and a drone strike near one of its Bahrain facilities
Amazon Web Services said late Monday two of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and a facility in Bahrain were damaged by drone strikes, taking the facilities offline.
2026-03-02
@initjean “objects that struck the data center” is honestly the wildest corporate euphemism for a missile strike I've ever seen
Reuters
AWS says its facilities in the Middle East are facing power and connectivity issues after unidentified “objects” struck its data center in the UAE
Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit, AWS, said on Sunday that power to its data center in the United Arab Emirates was shut down temporarily …
@initjean “objects that struck the data center” is honestly the wildest corporate euphemism for a missile strike I've ever seen
The Verge
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour says the startup will void certain bets related to Iran's Ali Khamenei and claims it doesn't “list markets directly tied to death”
Users say rules barring ‘profiting from death’ are unclear. … In a statement on X, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour …
2026-01-27
The gap between closed-source and open-weight keeps getting closer. Fast.
Bloomberg
Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2.5, saying the model can process text, images, and videos simultaneously and beats its open-source peers in some tests
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.-backed Moonshot AI released an upgrade of its flagship model, heating up a domestic arms race ahead …
The gap between closed-source and open-weight keeps getting closer. Fast.
Kimi
Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 builds on K2 with “pretraining over ~15T mixed visual and text tokens” and “can self-direct an agent swarm with up to 100 sub-agents”
Today, we are introducing Kimi K2.5, the most powerful open-source model to date.
2025-12-07
@Yuchenj_UW Gaslighting your users is a bold strategy.
The Decoder
ChatGPT head says screenshots of ChatGPT ads are “either not real or not ads”; OpenAI's research chief says “anything that feels like an ad” is now turned off
Paid ChatGPT users recently reported seeing a prompt labeled “Shop for home and groceries.