The US GSA eliminates 18F, a government tech consultancy that helps other agencies with their tech, including the IRS' Direct File, impacting about 90 employees
The General Services Administration deleted 18F, a government tech consultancy that helps other agencies with their technology, early Saturday morning.
Skype was an early harbinger of technology as culture, and its demise is a good lesson in how ineffective middle management can destroy good acquisitions
Microsoft is shutting down Skype. It will go offline in May 2025. … It makes me incredibly sad, but I am not surprised.
President Trump names Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano as assets to be included in a strategic US crypto reserve
U.S. President Donald Trump named XRP, Solana (SOL) and Cardano (ADA) as three assets to be included in a U.S. strategic crypto reserve on Sunday …
Samsung announces Galaxy A56, A36, and A26 smartphones with new AI image editing features and support for up to six years of Android OS and security upgrades
The new line of A-series devices has slightly larger screens and a bigger emphasis on AI image editing tools.
DeepSeek says its V3 and R1 models' cost of inferencing relative to sales during a 24-hour-period on February 28 put “theoretical” profit margins at 545%
Chinese artificial intelligence phenomenon DeepSeek revealed some financial numbers on Saturday, saying its “theoretical” …
An in-depth look at Apple's AI crisis, as some in Apple's AI division believe that a true conversational “LLM Siri” won't be ready until iOS 20 at best in 2027
Also: An inside look at Tim Cook's trade with President Donald Trump, the iPad Air sees shortages ahead of a pending refresh …
Honor pledges $10B in AI investments over the next five years and demos a proof of concept AI agent, powered by Gemini 2, that can book restaurant reservations
BARCELONA — Honor on Sunday pledged $10 billion in artificial intelligence investments over the next five years and announced …
President Trump plans to speak at the first-ever White House Crypto Summit on March 7, to be chaired by David Sacks, amid a global sell-off in cryptocurrencies
The Trump 💩 coin is under $13 and DJT grifter stock is down 21% in the past month. Better than TSLA though. It's down 24% in the past month. Brandon Shreve / @brandonshreve.dev : Gotta keep the grif...
Some parents are teaching their children how to use AI chatbots so they are prepared to deploy the tools responsibly as personal assistants when they are older
As AI grows increasingly prevalent, some are showing their children tools from ChatGPT to Dall-E to learn and bond
The Ethereum Foundation selects two new co-executive directors, and Executive Director Aya Miyaguchi becomes president, following calls for new leadership
Details CryptoNinjas : Ethereum Foundation Restructures Leadership in Bold Move to Revive Ecosystem Growth Godfrey Benjamin / CoinGape : Ethereum Foundation Unveils New Executive Directors Vince Quill...
Mastercard withdrew its commitment to invest $100M in 54 Collective, a top VC firm in Africa, where startup funding fell from $4.6B in 2022 to $2.2B in 2024
Read the latest from @tarykuh.bsky.social: — restofworld.org/2025/masterc... X: @restofworld : Mastercard Foundations big withdrawal from Africa's top VC firm leaves a gap in support for early-stage...
How AI, which makes intelligence ubiquitous and practically free, could upend the economy, which is built on the idea that expertise is scarce and expensive
The economy is built on the idea that expertise is scarce and expensive. AI is about to make it abundant and practically free. X: @business . LinkedIn: Mel Sellick and Frank Aquila X: @business : The...
DeepSeek, OpenAI, and others building smaller, powerful models quickly and cheaply using “distillation” raises questions about LLMs' first-mover advantage
DeepSeek used technique to create smaller powerful models based on the technology of competitors such as Meta Bluesky: @prietschka . X: @trengriffin . Forums: r/artificial Bluesky: Paul Rietschka / @p...
Sources: China instructs its top AI leaders to avoid visiting the US over fears they could divulge confidential info or be detained and used as bargaining chips
Beijing increasingly views cutting-edge technology through national-security lens, putting executives on tighter leash @Kubota_Yoko https://www.wsj.com/... https://www.wsj.com/... Joel Atkinson / @joe...
Source: SoftBank plans to borrow $16B to invest in AI, and might borrow another $8B in early 2026, which could strain its already debt-heavy balance sheet
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/o... … Casey / @ig.ht : who on earth would loan this money knowing softbank is investing it in what seems to be the least profitable sector in existence [embedded post] Ed Zitr...
How tech companies moving to or investing in Texas, attracted by lower taxes and fewer regulations on land use and labor, are transforming the state's economy
Apple is latest to remake state's economy, but some headwinds loom — Texas notched another technology win this week when Apple …
Despite breakthroughs from Amazon and Microsoft, quantum computing is struggling to reach its silicon moment, with no consensus on the best way to build qubits
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Zurich-based Unique, which offers AI agents for financial firms, raised a $30M Series A co-led by CommerzVentures and DN Capital to support its US expansion
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A look at China's “Fantastic Four”, the founders of DeepSeek, Unitree, ByteDance, and DJI, who are grouped together partly because they were educated in China
China's new generation of tech tsars were born after the country began its ‘reform and opening up’ phase
Documents and interviews detail how Connor Moucka, John Binns, and Cameron Wagenius, the trio accused of hacking AT&T and other Snowflake customers, met online
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A profile of Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who leads the UAE's AI fund MGX, which has backed Stargate and sources say is set to be infused with over $50B
Wall Street Journal : X: @pawlega and @matthewkassel X: @pawlega : He became so hooked on competing with his brothers in “Age of Empires,” a videogame where players develop hunter gatherers into powe...
Sources: Larry Ellison's Sensei Ag, a venture backed by his $500M+ investment to change farming with AI, robotics, and software, has mostly been a bust, so far
we've been farming for about 300000 years. it's fine. leave it alone [embedded post] @llarian.net : Yet another example of Tech's hubris in thinking that all other areas of work are basically “unski...
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