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Sources: ByteDance has earmarked over $20.6B in capital expenditure for 2025, with about half of the quantity on AI-related infrastructure outdoors China (Reuters)

Reuters:Sources: ByteDance has earmarked over $20.6B in capital expenditure for 2025, with about half of the…

Google adjustments how seen URLs present up on cellular search outcomes globally, dropping the “breadcrumbs” that present the hierarchy of a webpage’s URL (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

Umar Shakir / The Verge:Google adjustments how seen URLs present up on cellular search outcomes globally,…

Perplexity launches Perplexity Assistant in its Android app, which might take “multi-app actions” like hailing a experience, initially free for customers in 15 languages (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:Perplexity launches Perplexity Assistant in its Android app, which might take “multi-app actions”…

At Davos, Trump blasts EU for concentrating on Apple, Google, and Meta, describing regulatory circumstances as “a form of taxation”, and references Apple’s €13B Irish tax invoice (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:At Davos, Trump blasts EU for concentrating on Apple, Google, and Meta, describing regulatory circumstances as…

OpenAI releases a “research preview” of its Operator AI agent that may automate web-based duties, launching within the US to subscribers of the $200/month Professional tier (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge:OpenAI releases a “research preview” of its Operator AI agent that may…

OpenAI says Operator is powered by Pc-Utilizing Agent, or CUA, which mixes GPT-4o’s imaginative and prescient capabilities with “reasoning” skills of extra superior fashions (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Know-how Assessment)

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Know-how Assessment:OpenAI says Operator is powered by Pc-Utilizing Agent, or CUA,…

OpenAI companions with DoorDash, Instacart, Priceline, StubHub, and Uber to make sure that Operator respects these companies’ phrases of service agreements (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:OpenAI companions with DoorDash, Instacart, Priceline, StubHub, and Uber to make sure that…

Arms-on with Operator: restricted in what it could actually browse, can carry out repetitive workflows, and might do prolonged duties by itself with minimal prompting (Each)

Each:Arms-on with Operator: restricted in what it could actually browse, can carry out repetitive workflows, and…

Extremely-detailed map of U.S. rivers

The Nationwide Hydrography Dataset Plus Excessive Decision map of waterways, created by the US Geological Survey,…

2025 Fantasy Baseball Third Base (3B) Rankings

Our fantasy baseball analysts reveal their 3B draft rankings for 2025.    Our fantasy baseball analysts reveal their…