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Trump administration puts about 60 USAid officials on leave after aid freeze | US foreign policy newsthirst.

The Trump administration has put on leave about 60 senior career officials at the US Agency for International Development (USAid) workers, sources familiar with the matter said, after Washington put a sweeping freeze on US aid worldwide. The administration on Saturday urged the USAid staff to join the effort to transform how Washington allocates aid…

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L.A. Wildfires Claim Iconic Pacific Palisades TV & Movie Filming Locations newsthirst.

L.A. Wildfires Iconic Filming Locations Destroyed ‘Freaky Friday’ House, ‘Carrie’ School, Others Burn Published January 27, 2025 3:53 PM PST Play video content BACKGRID It’s been nearly 3 weeks since the deadly Palisades and Eaton wildfires destroyed more than 16,000 structures in the Los Angeles area … and we’re learning some iconic Hollywood filming locations…

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Nvidia calls China’s DeepSeek R1 model ‘an excellent AI advancement’ newsthirst.

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Nvidia is still working on the certification process for Samsung Electronics Co.’s high-bandwidth memory chips, a final required step before the Korean company can begin supplying a component essential to training AI platforms.  Annabelle…

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How buzz on Chinese AI model DeepSeek sparked massive Nasdaq sell-off newsthirst.

A young Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, sparked a massive rout in U.S. technology stocks Monday as its highly competitive — and potentially shockingly cost-effective — models stoked doubts about the hundreds of billions of dollars that America’s biggest tech companies are spending on artificial intelligence. DeepSeek’s emergence is shaking up investor confidence in the AI…

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