🚫 X Ditches Headlines; Poverty Stagnates; Toyota's $3B Deal.
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X stops showing headlines because Elon Musk thinks it will make posts look better. X, formerly Twitter, is no longer showing headlines on articles shared on the platform. Instead, X is only showing the article's lead image and the domain it will link you to. By Jay Peters via The Verge
You can no longer see the headlines of articles linked on Twitter (X) anymore. It’s just an image - Tom Warren (@tomwarren)
Poverty is back to pre-COVID levels globally, but not for low-income countries The economic setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the largest increase in global extreme poverty in decades. Global poverty has now receded to levels closer to those prior to the pandemic, but this means that we have lost three years in the fight against poverty. Via Worldbank
What new data is now revealing: after the setback from Covid, poverty reduction now continues - Dina D. Pomeranz (@DinaPomeranz)
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Toyota, LG Energy Solution sign $3 billion battery supply deal in U.S. EV push. LG Energy Solution will supply Toyota with EV batteries for cars that will be assembled in the U.S. 'Inflation drew up investment amounts and labor costs have gone up for various reasons. Things are tough. The IRA tax credit is big, and it gets… By Sheila Chiang via CNBC
Toyota, LG Energy Solution sign $3 billion battery supply deal in U.S. EV push - CNBC Tech (@CNBCtech)
How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret. The tan macaque with the hairless pink face could do little more than sit and shiver as her brain began to swell. The California National Primate Center staff observing her via livestream knew the signs. Whatever had been done had left her with a… (Dell Cameron via WIRED)
This story details multiple research ethics violations, and I am furious. - Dr. Jacquelyn Gill (@JacquelynGill)
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We're excited to announce the beta of pplx-api, our LLM API that provides the fastest way to access Mistral and LLaMa models for your projects - Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas)
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