The US NTSB says it will not email news outlets and reporters with updates about the two recent plane crashes, and will instead post updates on its X account
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters with updates …
In a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman admitted that DeepSeek has lessened OpenAI's lead and said OpenAI has been “on the wrong side of history” in terms of open sourcing
To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman …
Donald Trump fires Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra, one of the more important regulators and holdovers from the Biden administration
President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover.
When asked in an AMA if OpenAI would release model weights and research, Sam Altman said “we are discussing” and “it's also not our current highest priority”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... [image] Mastodon: Bryan Lawrence / @bnlawrence@mastodon.nz : “For us little people, the choice seems to be between being data-jacked and screwed over by the undemo...
The UK announces four new laws that make it illegal to possess, create, or distribute AI tools designed to produce CSAM, becoming the first country to do so
Four new laws will tackle the threat of child sexual abuse images generated by artificial intelligence (AI), the government has announced.
In its current form, OpenAI's Operator is more of an intriguing demo than a product useful for most people, but it points to a future of powerful AI agents
In the past week, OpenAI's Operator has done the following things for me: — Ordered me a new ice cream scoop on Amazon.
Donald Trump's EO imposing levies on China says the “de minimis” exemption for items under $800 no longer applies, which could affect Alibaba, Shein, and others
- President could block tariff exemption for packages under $800 — Change could affect retailers such as Alibaba, Shein, Temu
Google says APT groups from 20+ countries are using Gemini primarily for productivity gains rather than to develop or conduct novel AI-enabled cyberattacks
Multiple state-sponsored groups are experimenting with the AI-powered Gemini assistant from Google to increase productivity …
Reliance Retail launches the Shein app in India, with control over operations and data and Shein acting as a technology partner, years after the app's ban
Chinese fast-fashion platform Shein has relaunched in India through a partnership with local conglomerate Reliance's retail chain …
The EU proposes customs reforms that make ecommerce platforms such as Temu, Shein, and Amazon Marketplace liable for dangerous or illegal products they sell
Proposed customs reform would allow officials to better inspect and control packages from China — The EU plans to make ecommerce platforms …
A look at Future You, an AI-based research tool that lets users interact with a virtual older self and is currently being used by 60,000 people from 190 nations
A new artificial-intelligence tool allowed me to talk to my 80-year-old self. It's going to be quite a life. Bluesky: @hypervisible . X: @patpat_mit Bluesky: @hypervisible : “The glimpse of what's to...
A US man pleads guilty to a cyberstalking campaign against a professor, including by creating chatbots on Crushon.ai and JanitorAI using her personal info
James Florence, 36, agreed to plead guilty after using victim's information to guide chatbots in impersonation Bluesky: @anabrandusescu . LinkedIn: Maree Crabbe . Forums: r/whenwomenrefuse Bluesky: An...
India removes import duties on some components for making smartphones, in a boost for local production efforts and benefiting companies like Apple and Xiaomi
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DeepSeek is supercharging the debate over how much US companies should share about their AI breakthroughs, many of which have been detailed in scientific papers
Reminds me of how landlords and humans use opposite words to describe changes in the housing market. … Mastodon: Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social : This is the exact wrong reaction to DeepSee...
A look at the online scam industry in Southeast Asia and how Indians became its targets; 2,358 Indians were rescued from scam compounds between 2022 and 2024
scroll.in/article/1078... Ayush Tiwari unpacks how the global #cybercrime network works to target Indians. … X: Neha / @nehaverma107 : Crazy report‼️Hope all of our trapped country people can return ...
Japan plans to expand export controls on advanced chips, lithography equipment, and cryocoolers for quantum computers, with new rules taking effect by late May
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Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf and other experts say startups like DeepSeek and the rise of AI agents may erode the value of LLMs from OpenAI and Big Tech companies
Ryan Browne / CNBC : Bluesky: @aprilroach . X: @levie Bluesky: @aprilroach : Some great coverage on DeepSeek from CNBC's @ryanbrownecnbc.bsky.social looking at how the tech behind the Chinese startup...
India announces a $1.15B Fund of Funds for startups, with an “expanded scope” compared to past initiatives, and extends tax benefits for startups by five years
India announced a new $1.15 billion Fund of Funds for startups on Saturday while unveiling sweeping regulatory reforms …
MLCommons and Hugging Face release Unsupervised People's Speech, a dataset for AI research containing more than 1M hours of audio spanning at least 89 languages
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California DMV: a total of 4.5M autonomous vehicle test miles were logged in 2024, down 50% YoY, with driverless testing falling 83% YoY to just 552,895 miles
1. Waymo is now a robotaxi operator in California, more than a tester. — 2. GM shut down Cruise. — I'd love to see a comparison of these 2024 numbers against other states and countries. … Forums: ...
How Israeli startups like Xtend are helping the country's war effort, with ~50% of anti-drone tech used since the October 7 attacks coming from startups
Emily Rose / Reuters :
Appfigures: DeepSeek has topped the list of the most downloaded mobile apps across 140 markets, with India contributing 15.6% of all downloads since its launch
The thesis of the paper was open source AI would outcompete closed models from Google and OpenAI by being more flexible and iterating faster. …
Instagram and Facebook, which blocked news links in Canada, are hosting hundreds of scam ads pretending to be from news outlets ahead of Canadian elections
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