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TikTok ban bill sees unanimous 50-0 House committee vote
Bay Area Times
March 08, 2024
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1. TikTok ban bill sees unanimous 50-0 House committee vote
The vote follows a lobbying effort by TikTok, which included sending prompts to users urging them to contact their member of Congress:
TikTok screenshot.
The House Energy & Commerce Committee voted 50-0 to pass legislation to force ByteDance to divest TikTok within 165 days or face a U.S. ban.
Some lawmakers said they had to turn their phones off, due to an extremely high number of calls.
2. Inflection 2.5 launches, underperforms GPT-4 in testing scores
1M DAUs, 6M MAUs.
In contrast, Anthropic’s Claude 3 and Google’s Gemini have caught up to OpenAI’s GPT-4.
Our view: GPT-5 is the most likely candidate to significantly improve upon GPT-4
Llama 3 is also a possibility, although most likely they will just become the top open-source LLM.
Significant improvements upon the Transformers architecture are likely necessary to achieve anything close to an actual AGI.
AI is expected to make it easier to sell, more than shorten sales cycles
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4. Huawei 7nm chip breakthrough in 2023 relied on U.S. technology
Illustration of Huawei leveraging U.S. companies for chip development.