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A Boeing seven thirty seven cargo plane has gone missing off the coast of Pakistan near Karachi, according to reporting from The Guardian. Search and rescue operations are underway, and while details remain scarce, the incident adds to the ongoing scrutiny surrounding Boeing's aircraft safety record.
Shifting to the economics of artificial intelligence, The Register reports that the price of AI tokens has dropped dramatically, with GPT-four-class model output falling from roughly twenty dollars per million tokens in late two thousand twenty two to just forty cents today, a fifty-five-fold decline in under four years. That said, the market is fragmenting, with a handful of premium models holding their price while budget options flood in below them.
And in chip ambitions, ByteDance, the Chinese firm behind TikTok, is reportedly racing to finalize the design of a next-generation in-house CPU by early two thousand twenty seven, with mass production targeted for the second half of that year. The company wants to reduce its dependence on Nvidia, a goal shared by nearly every major tech player operating at scale right now.
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