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Elon’s X falters again
Musk admits “big fixes” needed!
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What we’ll cover today:
🔥 Elon’s X faces another outage—Musk admits “big fixes” needed
🇨🇳 Tencent & Baidu rewrite AI strategies, flex their muscle despite US chip bans
💬 Nvidia CEO calls chip bans a “failure” – is the US hurting itself?
Source : Forbes
Elon Musk’s social media platform X had a surprise outage this morning, leaving 25,000 users wondering—“What now, Elon?”
🚨 Breaking News
X went down around 8:45 a.m. ET, frustrating 25K+ users. By 9:55 a.m., most issues were fixed.
⚡ Wire Simplified:
Elon Musk’s platform X crashed for thousands of users.
Downdetector tracked 25K+ complaints during peak trouble.
Musk admitted “major improvements” are needed—again.
The cause of the outage is still a mystery.
By late morning, most users were back online.
✔️ Straight to the Point
X had another oopsie—Elon says it’s time for upgrades. Let’s hope the next outage doesn’t ruin our mornings.
🎤 Have you faced issues with X lately? |
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Source : AI Business
Tencent and Baidu are in the AI race—without Nvidia’s chips. How? By stockpiling, optimizing, and going local!
🚨 Breaking News
Tencent and Baidu reveal AI strategies post-US chip curbs—stockpiling GPUs, optimizing models, and building domestic alternatives.
⚡ Wire Simplified:
The US is blocking AI chips like Nvidia’s from going to China.
Tencent has stockpiled GPUs and is using smaller models.
Baidu’s “full-stack” AI approach relies on software optimization.
Both firms highlight China’s homegrown semiconductor progress.
Nvidia’s CEO called the chip ban a “failure” for the US.
✔️ Straight to the Point
China’s AI giants aren’t slowing down—Tencent and Baidu are showing the world they can innovate without US chips.
Something absolutely everyone should be doing right now, to get ahead of the coming wave of AI change:
Identify toilsome tasks in your work and life that AI could handle, freeing you up for higher-value activities.
There is massive alpha in being the 1st expert in your field.
— Garry Tan (@garrytan)
7:37 PM • May 24, 2025
After the initial sugar rush, expensive models end up getting little or no usage.
GPT 4.5 - was barely used before being retired
o1 - was too slow and expensive to be used IRL
Veo-2 - abandoned, gave people sticker shock
o3 - only used as a fallback or for planningVeo-3 and
— Bindu Reddy (@bindureddy)
2:51 PM • May 24, 2025
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