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December 10, 2024   |   Listen Online   |   Read Online Brought to you by: Top stories today: Sora Turbo AI video generator released for ChatGPT Plus, Pro Google unveils Willow quantum chip, calls it parallel universes evidence TikTok seeks to halt U.S. ban pending Supreme Court review Internet traffic worldwide +17.2% in 2024, with Google leading American workers falling behind others on basic skills China may set highest budget deficit next year since 1994 tax reform Follow us on X | Instagram | Advertise 0. Data and calendar All values as of 6 AM ET / 3 AM PT, other than S&P500 and NASDAQ close (4 PM ET / 1 PM PT). All times are ET. Listen to our AI-generated podcast summarizing today's newsletter (beware of the few hallucinations): Bay Area Times Daily - Dec. 10, 2024 ►   Play Online 1. Sora Turbo AI video generator released for ChatGPT Plus, Pro subscribers OpenAI. Pro users get 1080p and more usage vs Plus. <=20 seconds per video. UK, Switzerland, and EU excluded at launch. 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Google unveils new Willow quantum chip, calls it evidence of parallel universes Google: Willow quantum chip. "[Willow] performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today's fastest supercomputers [10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000] years. "It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch." The error rate dropped by a factor of 2.14 as the lattice size increased from 3x3 to 7x7 Google. Bitcoin and other encrypted systems could be threatened by future quantum computers. Google said this was Milestone 2 in their 6-step roadmap to a functional quantum computer Google. 4. TikTok seeks to halt U.S. ban pending Supreme Court review Give the incoming Trump administration time to review, the TikTok said in its filing. "No imminent threat to national security" by pausing the law, it said. The court should quickly deny TikTok's request, the government argued. 5. Internet traffic worldwide +17% in 2024, with Google remaining the most popular service Cloudflare. Facebook emerged as the 2nd most popular internet service worldwide, per Cloudflare. There was 3.3x growth in SpaceX's Starlink traffic, in line with its prior year's growth rate Cloudflare. The growth came despite Starlink's absence in major markets like India and China. 33% of traffic came from iOS and 67% from Android Cloudflare. Google continued to dominate the search engine market, followed by Russia's Yandex and China's Baidu Cloudflare. Google Chrome retained its browser leadership across all platforms but iOS Cloudflare. 225 major internet disruptions were observed globally, with Iraq experiencing the most at 49 Cloudflare. 6. American workers falling behind others on basic skills WSJ, National Center for Education Statistics. +34% in U.S. adults with primary-school-level math skills in 2023, up from 29% in 2017. U.S. ranked 14 in literacy, 15 in adaptive problem solving, and 24 in numeracy WSJ, National Center for Education Statistics. 7. China may set highest budget deficit next year since 1994 tax reform Bloomberg, government releases. 4% of GDP in tax deficit forecast by 7 Chinese brokerages, vs. 3.0% this year and 3.8% in 2023. 40-60 basis points of policy rate cuts are expected for 2025 Bloomberg, People's Bank of China. 8. Wall Street's complex debt bonanza hits $380B, fastest since 2007 FT, LSEG. +20%+ YoY. 9. Interesting videos, posts, and memes This Video is AI Generated! SORA Review The 2025 AI Search Race 3 AI app ideas that are goldmines (and how to grow them) 10. Other headlines AI Stability AI CEO says startup saw "triple digit growth" and has "no debt." 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