11 Jan 2025
Fires raging across the Los Angeles area entered their fourth day, killing at least ten people, forcing the evacuation of 180,000 residents, and destroying more than ten thousand structures. Preliminary estimates place damages and economic losses up to $150 billion.
Cyclone Dikeledi formed in the South-West Indian Ocean on Thursday, January 9, 2025, and is expected to rapidly intensify before making landfall in northern Madagascar on Saturday, January 11.
Heavy sea-effect snow has been affecting parts of Japan over the past couple of days, with more than 1 m (3 feet) of snow already registered in some regions and snowfall expected to persist through Saturday. Some areas have already received twice the usual snowfall.
A Super Scooper firefighting plane was grounded after it was struck by a drone over the Palisades Fire. Fire officials in Southern California informed the FAA that a firefighting aircraft struck a drone Thursday as it was flying over the largest of the region’s fires near the Los Angeles County coast, the agency said.
The UK’s gas reserves have dropped to a concerning low, with only a week’s worth of supply remaining, as the country prepares for low wind speeds and freezing temperatures.
Outrage is boiling over after revelations that the Santa Ynez Reservoir, a critical water source in Pacific Palisades, was empty and offline when a devastating wildfire ripped through the area.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently described “agentic” AI as the “next giant breakthrough” expected in 2025.
However, the rollout of agentic AI and other AI tools on Wall Street has a huge downside: job loss. According to a new Bloomberg Intelligence survey of 92 global banks, the industry could shed hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next 3-5 years because of AI.
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