Had it been built in 1933, the Palace of Soviets would have been the tallest building in the world. With Lenin’s statue crowning it, the height would reach 415–420m. The statue alone was to be about 100m tall.
#USSR#Soviet#sovietUnion
The Soviet “Statue of Liberty”! A 100m Lenin atop a 415m Palace of Soviets, designed by Iofan and inspired by ziggurats, aimed to eclipse the world. War and shortages killed the dream, leaving only the ghost of unrealized grandeur. #Soviet#USSR#history
The Palace of Soviets was to rise on the site of Moscow’s demolished Cathedral of Christ the Savior—symbolizing a break with the past and a new socialist center. War halted construction, the sacred site was lost in vain, leaving only an echo of ambition. #Soviet#USSR#History
- They want to make cloud capabilities more affordable
- Alibaba Cloud price cuts will affect 100+ different products
- #alibabacloud is the largest player in #China and APAC
- Global cloud spending will increase by 20% over 2024
#AI#FinanceNews
CNBC: #alibabacloud slashes prices by 55% to drive #AI growth in #China market
- Alibaba is slashing the prices of its core cloud products by 55%
- The company wants to stimulate AI growth in the Chinese market
- It wants to make cloud capabilities more affordable
#Finance
- In May 2023, the fund had approximately $175M in investments. But #OpenAI Startup Fund is not owned by #OpenAI itself. OpenAI Startup Fund is legally owned by #Altman
source https://t.co/aNcoDf1zkD
Sam Altman owns OpenAI's venture capital fund
- He is not just the CEO of OpenAI. #Altman is also the owner of the OpenAI Startup Fund
- #OpenAI Startup Fund was launched approximately 2 years ago, the fund invests in #AI startups and technologies
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Analysts predict a flourishing crypto subsector in 2024 driven by AI and web3 innovations. The emergence of AI agents and verification management applications using AI technologies are seen as key examples.
https://t.co/W8IfBMNc70
Vitalik Buterin sees AI as a potential solution to Ethereum's biggest technical risk: bugs in code. He believes AI-assisted formal verification and bug finding could significantly improve security.
#AI#Ethereum#ETH
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Buterin previously explored the overlap between crypto and AI, highlighting micro-scale mechanisms with AI players as promising applications. He acknowledges the challenge of balancing open-source development with security concerns in AI.
Since the beginning of the year, IT companies have cut 34,000 employees due to shifting focus on #AI
- A total of 138 IT companies cut employees in 2024
- Last year, 263,000 jobs were cut
- Experts believe that layoffs will continue
#Finance#FinanceNews
- Sales of PlayStation 5 consoles were around 51.34 million
- #PlayStation 5 was able to double the sales of the #XboxSeriesS and #XboxSeriesX
- With #PS5 sales tripling for 2023 alone
- #Microsoft admitted a year ago that it had lost out on the market
#PlayStation 5 sales have doubled over the #Xbox Series X/S
- Their sales figures have been released by Take-Two Studios
- At the end of 2023, 77 million new consoles had been sold
- The data was prepared by IDG Consulting and Newzoo.
- Nvidia is offering IT giants to build chips directly for them
- This will integrate their technology and Nvidia's chips.
- The market for such chips is $30 billion (5% of the total market)
https://t.co/aR1sTAbxG5
Reuters: #Nvidia will start developing custom chips for #IT companies
- Nvidia wants to protect itself from IT companies with its chips
- The company already controls about 80% of the #AI chip market
- The #H100 and #A100 chips have become the universal solution on the market
- Each Nvidia H100 chip can sell for $16-100k.
- But #Microsoft, #Alphabet and #Amazon are developing their own chips
- IT giants are developing #AI chips for their own needs
- They are bringing in Broadcom, Marvell and others as partners.
As a Russian who resisted KGB dictatorship and war, I'm obliged to challenge @TuckerCarlson after his interview with Putin. Tucker, you appeared unable or unwilling to expose Putin’s lies. If you are interested in the truth, I will give you and your viewers the chance to hear it.
The #Ethereum network has seen a surge in the number of validators looking to stack their #ETH.
The queue has jumped to 7045
The growth is very likely, usually at the peak of entry into staking there is a rise and at the peak of exit there is a fall.
#Microstrategy have announced their own #AI bot that will "combine artificial intelligence and #blockchain technologies".
The company will unveil the new service at a big April event in Las Vegas.
https://t.co/pYzg72Bmyl
- Technical difficulties could stop #Apple from producing them
- It's also unknown whether #Apple will be able to offer anything special.
- The company's first foldable product could be the #iPad
news:https://t.co/QAgpjUnZ5U
The Information: #Apple is developing a foldable iPhone
main points:
- #Apple has prototyped at least two foldable #iPhone models
- This could be the biggest change in smartphone history
- The popularity of foldable smartphones has grown thanks to Samsung
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- #Motorola, #Google and #Chinese brands have unveiled their models
- But #Apple does not intend to release a foldable #iPhone in 2024 or 2025
- However, the company has been exploring foldable devices for more than 10 years.