China’s fourth-quarter GDP grows at 5.4%, beating market expectations

Railway builders erect a box girder at the site of the standard project in front of the Huning section of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hefei high-speed railway in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China, on January 10, 2025.  Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images China’s economy expanded by 5.4% China’s economy expanded by 5% year on year in 2024, with … Read more

Xiaohongshu Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators

The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known internationally as RedNote—is scrambling to boost its ability to moderate English-language content after hundreds of thousands of American users suddenly joined the platform in anticipation of TikTok potentially being banned in the United States on Sunday. WIRED identified a handful of job listings posted to recruitment platforms by … Read more

President-elect Trump nominates Olivia Trusty for FCC commissioner

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., discusses Treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent’s confirmation hearing and how he handled himself on ‘Your World.’ Republican Senate aide Olivia Trusty has been picked as a commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), President-elect Trump announced on Truth Social Thursday afternoon, securing a Republican majority within the agency. Trusty currently serves … Read more

Nvidia releases more tools and guardrails to nudge enterprises to adopt AI agents

Nvidia is releasing three new NIM microservices, or small independent services that are part of larger applications, to help enterprises bring additional control and safety measures to their AI agents. One of these new NIM services targets content safety and works to prevent an AI agent from generating harmful or biased outputs. Another works to … Read more

US sues Georgia’s Houston County, says it violates Black voters’ rights By Reuters

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it has filed a lawsuit against Houston County, Georgia, to challenge the county’s at-large method of electing its board of commissioners, alleging the process violates Black voters’ rights. The at-large method results in Black citizens having less opportunity than other members of … Read more