A look at the Silicon Valley billionaires and millionaires steering Trump's transition by shaping hiring decisions and conducting senior-level job interviews
The involvement of wealthy investors has made this presidential transition one of the most potentially conflict-ridden in modern history.
TikTok users shouldn't count on Trump to save the app, as his stance has been inconsistent and the app's existence brings little upside for him post-election
One of Trump's first important decisions could be to deprive Gen Z of its favorite app. — A federal appeals court ruling …
The EU sends TikTok an urgent request for information on Russia's role in Romanian election turmoil, a day after ordering it to retain all election-related data
The European Union said Friday it sent TikTok an urgent request for more information about Romanian intelligence files suggesting …
TikTok still faces a US ban if not sold by January 19, after a federal appeals court ruled that Congress has the power to take action to protect US interests
Divest-or-Sell Order Slated to Go Into Effect Next Month Forbes : Sources: Tim Cook and senior Apple execs have been discussing how best to respond to potential TikTok ban, conceding there is nothing ...
OpenAI's o1 is a notable departure from older models, representing the AI industry's shift to reasoning models to overcome the limits of prediction-based LLMs
This week, openai launched what its chief executive, Sam Altman, called “the smartest model in the world”—a generative-AI program …
David Sacks, Trump's AI and crypto czar, lacks deep ties to either industry but is a longtime critic of tech regulation, which investors view as more important
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MLCommons, a nonprofit that helps companies measure their AI systems' performance, debuts the AILuminate benchmark featuring 12K+ prompts to assess LLMs' safety
MLCommons provides benchmarks that test the abilities of AI systems. It wants to measure the bad side of AI next.
The US CFPB issues an order establishing supervisory authority over Google's payment arm, Google Payment; Google says it's challenging the decision in court
The US watchdog for consumer finance on Friday announced it was ordering federal supervision of Google Payment Corp., the internet giant's …
Paytm sells its stake in Japanese payments firm PayPay to SoftBank for $279.2M, ending Paytm's ties with SoftBank, which sold its remaining Paytm shares in June
Paytm has agreed to sell its stake in Japanese payments firm PayPay to SoftBank for $279.2 million, as the Indian firm sheds …
OpenAI expands its Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program to let developers create expert models in specific domains with very little training data
the repo we used to train Tulu 3. Expanding reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) to more domains and with better answer extraction (what OpenAI calls a grader, a [image] Kevin Weil / ...
Sources: with its own modem in the pipeline, Apple is investigating bringing cellular connectivity to the Mac and headsets like Vision Pro for the first time
7 biggest rumors so far Sagar Naresh Bhavsar / Neowin : iPhone 17 Slim/Air could be 2mm thinner than iPhone 16 Pro, thanks to the in-house modem David Nield / TechRadar : New leak predicts just how th...
Palantir and Anduril launch a consortium to accelerate AI capabilities for US national security, focusing on data readiness and processing data at scale
The companies said they wish to ultimately expand the partnership to other industry partners — Palantir Technologies is partnering …
How the UK came to play a key role in global AI regulation, after Sam Altman played a deepfake of Rishi Sunak's voice on a February 2023 call with the then PM
LONDON — In February 2023 Sam Altman dialed into a video call with Britain's then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
An investigation finds 80+ livestreaming apps, like Bigo Live, on Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store that advertised child sexual abuse or bestiality
Smartphone apps downloaded from Apple and Google can allow parents and other abusers to connect with pedophiles who pay to watch — and direct — criminal behavior.
Meta announces Llama 3.3 70B, a text-only model that Meta claims can deliver the performance of its largest Llama model at a lower cost
7.0M — 2,040 … The fine-tuning data includes publicly available … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Meta Unveils New Llama 3.3 70B AI Model with Higher Cost-Efficiency Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : ...
Galaxy Research: crypto lending via DeFi apps and centralized providers nearly tripled YoY to $36.8B from Q1 to Q3 2024; DeFi lender apps handled nearly $31B
- Market rally, increased leverage are driving the demand — Decentralized finance applications leading the way this time
A look at the uncertainties for the chip industry under Donald Trump, including tariffs, the CHIPS Act, demand for AI chips, competition with China, and more
From tariffs to AI demand, US companies are pondering what comes next — What does the return of Donald Trump imply for the global chip war?
An evaluation of six frontier AI models for in-context scheming when strongly nudged to pursue a goal: only OpenAI's o1 was capable of scheming in all the tests
It presents a new safety challenge that OpenAI is trying to address. — techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/o... Anders Sandberg / @arenamontanus : In an IVA discussion on AI yesterday evening professor Kristi...
A look at Uber Shuttle, the shared bus service in 20+ cities that has completed nearly 30M trips globally, as Uber awaits its regulatory approval in Bengaluru
Uber Shuttle, a shared bus ride service, is available in two Indian cities. The company plans to launch in three more cities soon. Bluesky: @michaelmartinez.co , @joshnicholas.com , and @anup . X: @a...
A US teen faces backlash for making ~$50K via a “soft rug pull” on Pump.Fun, which made $250M+ in less than a year and is struggling to protect users from scams
He didn't believe it at first. But when angry messages started to flood in, he realised his son was telling the truth—if not quite the full story. — www.wired.com/story/memeco... Natasha Bernal / @...
Atlanta-based Tractian, which offers sensors, software, and AI for industrial equipment monitoring and upkeep, raised a $120M Series C led by Sapphire Ventures
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The number of stillbirths and neonatal deaths at a Malawi clinic has fallen by 82% after starting an AI-supported program in 2021 for regular fetal observation
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How Elon Musk could influence UK politics, amid a clash between his ultra-free speech vision of X and Labour's mission to clamp down on online hate speech
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A MarketVector index of the bottom half of the largest 100 digital tokens has risen over 2x since Trump's November 5 election win, topping the 46% Bitcoin jump
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SpaceX got a Pentagon contract in August to expand Ukraine's access to Starshield, an encrypted signal over Starlink that's more difficult to hack into or jam
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Apple's John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak on the company's work on transformer-based AI models after GPT-3, building Apple Intelligence, more
Steven Levy / Wired : Bluesky: @stevenlevy . Forums: r/technews Bluesky: Steven Levy / @stevenlevy : In prepping for my Tim Cook interview I had some rare conversations w Apple sr execs and came up w...
Q&A with Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas on how AI has changed the $30B company, which offers sensors, cameras, and software for managing vehicle fleets and equipment
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Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.