Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration
The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model. — The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …
Sources: the Trump admin is in talks for Oracle and a group of US investors to take over TikTok's global operations, with ByteDance retaining a minority stake
The Trump administration is working on a plan to save TikTok that involves tapping software company Oracle and a group …
Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits
China is pulling the same trick. — www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, given OpenAI's found...
Siri with Apple Intelligence is a massive regression from the old Siri, which recognized its limitations and provided a list of search links to answer a query
Writing about the current state of Apple Intelligence yesterday, I mentioned how utterly stupid and laughably wrong Siri is when asked …
Sources: people affiliated with DOGE have met with representatives of various public blockchains as they explore using a blockchain to track federal spending
- Conversations said to be held with multiple public blockchains — The technology may be used to track government spending
Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones
“Marc Andreessen, a co-inventor of the pioneering Mosaic web browser, co-founder of the Netscape browser company and current general partner at the famed Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) venture capital fir...
DeepSeek, which started as a deep-learning research branch of Chinese quant hedge fund High-Flyer, is now giving US AI giants a run for their money
When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent.
Sources outline negotiations between the Biden administration and TikTok ahead of the ban, as company insiders refute claims that a blackout helped their case
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Elon Musk's first moves suggest DOGE will be closer to an IT project than the sweeping operation to slash $2T+ from the federal budget that he once predicted
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Sources: DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng told Chinese Premier Li Qiang in a Jan. 20 meeting that US export controls on advanced chips to China were still a bottleneck
DeepSeek is called ‘amazing and impressive’ despite working with less-advanced chips — SINGAPORE—A Chinese artificial-intelligence company …
Supporters and skeptics of the TikTok ban in Congress say Trump's US ownership proposal bewilders them, claiming it doesn't comply with the divest-or-ban law
Sources: US State Dept.'s freeze on foreign aid applies to a bureau that uses cyber diplomacy to fight threats and pursues international norms for emerging tech
The U.S. State Department's move to halt nearly all existing foreign assistance applies to the programs and funds …
After pouring tens of millions into Trump's campaign, the crypto industry has been paid back handsomely during his first week back, with EOs, rule changes, more
Crypto executives, companies and investors are getting an early return on their investment in Donald Trump.
CEO Brian Armstrong says Coinbase needs to rethink its listing process for new tokens to keep up with “~1m tokens a week being created now, and growing”
We need to rethink our listing process at @coinbase given there are ~1m tokens a week being created now, and growing. High quality problem to have, but evaluating each one by one is no longer feasible...
Some crypto executives worry Trump's memecoin undercut the industry's credibility at the very moment crypto is seeking a prominent place in mainstream finance
https://www.nytimes.com/... Forums: r/inthenews : Crypto fans hoped Trump would make them legit. Then came the meme coins.
OpenAI updates ChatGPT's Canvas feature with o1 model support and HTML and React code rendering, making it a direct competitor to Claude's Artifacts
Select o1 from the model picker and use the toolbox icon or the “/canvas” command ✅Canvas can render HTML & React code @openai : ✅We've also fully rolled out canvas on the ChatGPT desktop app for macO...
Despite assurances, advertisers worry Meta's tools may not prevent ads from appearing near offensive content as the new content moderation approach takes effect
Social-media giant's loosening of speech restrictions is unsettling advertisers, who say a decade of efforts to protect their reputations is at risk
A look at Google's plans to shape public perception and policies on AI, including building out educational programs, ahead of a global wave of AI regulation
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, already facing an unprecedented regulatory onslaught, is looking to shape public perception and policies …
Trump's EO to protect the dollar bars any further work on a CBDC and aligns the government's interests with those of stablecoin issuers like Tether and Circle
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Hands-on with the live translation feature of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses: adept at translating a basic conversation, but struggles with slang and faster speech
which, if Apple is looking for more features, this would be a banger of one @papapishu : Even the LLM didn't wanna watch the movie. Mastodon: Victoria Song / @vicmsong@mastodon.social : Tried out live...
Major Chinese social media apps have mastered the “shoppertainment” experience, blending social media with shopping, that Western competitors struggle to match
Addictive algorithms fuse social networking with shopping and entertainment. — In the days leading … See also Mediagazer
Chinese esports companies, including Tencent and Huya, face growth challenges in China, the world's biggest esports market; the industry earned ~$3.8B in 2024
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