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Hamas released the last 20 living Israeli hostages yesterday under a ceasefire deal that paused more than two years of war in Gaza, sparked by the militant group's Oct. 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel. Israel then freed nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees. See the surviving hostages here and photos from yesterday here.
The exchange is part of a US-backed 20-point peace plan that also includes returning the bodies of 28 dead hostages. Hamas released four bodies yesterday. The group says it does not know the location of some bodies; an international task force will be set up to help locate them. Israeli troops have partially withdrawn from Gaza as aid flows back into the territory and hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians return to devastated neighborhoods (see drone footage).
In related news, President Donald Trump visited Israel yesterday to address its legislature—the Knesset—and later joined a summit in Egypt with regional leaders to discuss Gaza's future. |
(Another) OpenAI Megadeal |
OpenAI and tech giant Broadcom announced a multiyear deal yesterday to develop custom-built chips and infrastructure to expand OpenAI’s compute capacity. The agreement aims to deploy 10 gigawatts of specialized infrastructure by 2029, a total roughly equal to the power consumption of 8 million households.
It marks the latest megadeal for OpenAI, following hardware and computing agreements with Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and others. The Broadcom deal will focus on networks of AI accelerators—highly efficient processors that can handle multiple tasks in parallel, performing billions of operations (see 101). The company did not disclose how it was financing the deal; Broadcom’s shares closed up nearly 10% on the news.
OpenAI’s recent deal with Nvidia came after the latter agreed to invest as much as $100B into OpenAI, while part of its deal with AMD will make OpenAI one of AMD’s largest shareholders. See a visualization of the complex web of relationships here. |
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Coral reefs are the first ecosystem to have passed a climate tipping point, scientists and conservationists contend in a new report. Barring a reversal in warming trends, researchers warn that a large number of coral reefs will be lost in the coming years.
The designation in this case refers to a level of warming at which irreversible damage occurs. Researchers from the UK-led Global Tipping Points organization say the majority of warm-water coral reefs are on track for widespread dieback, after 80% experienced severe bleaching events (see explanation). The report’s authors—160 scientists spanning 23 countries—point to global temperatures regularly exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, with Earth expected to formally pass that threshold in five years.
Warm-water reefs cover about 0.2% of the ocean floor but support around one-quarter of marine life. The report’s publication comes roughly one month before Brazil is scheduled to host COP30, the global climate summit. Read the report here. |
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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture |
> Taylor Swift's "Eras Tour" six-part docuseries coming to Disney+ on Dec. 12 (More) | ... and "The Life of a Showgirl" album becomes Swift's 15th No. 1 album, with all 12 songs topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart (More) |
> Purdue tops men's basketball preseason AP Top 25 poll for first time with Houston and reigning champs Florida rounding out the top three (More) |
> Comedian Marc Maron's pioneering "WTF" podcast ends after 16 years and more than 1,600 episodes with former President Barack Obama as Maron's final guest (More) |
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> California passes first-in-the-nation safety protocols for AI chatbots; follows the death of a teenager who had suicidal conversations with ChatGPT (More) | Hear an interview with the parents (More, w/video) |
> New AI-powered model predicts which children are most at risk of developing sepsis—when the immune system overreacts to an infection—within 48 hours of an emergency room visit (More) |
> Scientists grow embryo-like structures that produce human blood cells; discovery may eventually produce a source for personalized blood transfusion (More) | How new blood cells are created (1440 Topics, w/video) |
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> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.6%, Dow +1.3%, Nasdaq +2.2%) after President Donald Trump softens stance on China (More) | Silver prices hit first all-time high since 1980 (More) |
> JPMorgan Chase to invest up to $10B in companies tied to US national security, including defense and aerospace, energy independence, quantum computing, and AI (More) | Goldman Sachs to acquire $7B venture capital firm Industry Ventures (More) |
> Amazon to hire 250,000 full-time, part-time, and seasonal holiday workers nationwide, matching hiring levels from 2023 and 2024 (More) |
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> US Senate returns today, is expected to vote on measures to reopen the federal government as shutdown enters third week; see live updates (More) |
> Venezuela closes its embassy in Norway days after the Nobel Committee reveals it will award the peace prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado (More) | Madagascar's president leaves the country amid protests (More) |
> India and Canada agree to reset relations roughly two years after Canada accused India of complicity in the killing of a Sikh activist on its soil (More) | See previous write-up (More) |
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> Must You Chew So Loud?
Financial Times | Samantha Weinberg. Nearly one in five people suffer from misophonia, an aversion to specific sounds like chewing or sniffing. Those who experience it may be ridiculed—but their experience can be debilitating. (Read) |
> The Rise of Chatfishing
The Guardian | Alexandra Jones. Why single people may increasingly feel duped on a first date, after suitors use chatbots to generate emotionally intimate text messages. (Read) |
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Historybook: President Dwight D. Eisenhower born (1890); Chuck Yeager becomes first person to fly faster than speed of sound (1947); Cuban Missile Crisis begins (1962); Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize (1964); American photographer Dody Weston Thompson dies (2012).
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