Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says was “post-trained to remove the China censorship”
DeepSeek-R1 is a fully open-weight large language model (LLM) … Unite.AI : DeepSeek's R1: A Useful Reminder Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Perplexity Releases Censorship-Free Version of China's De...
Google says it won't “build custom AI/ML algorithms to facilitate upstream extraction in the oil and gas industry”, after new Greenpeace report on Big Oil ties
How Tech Companies are Helping Big Oil Profit … Sam Shead / CNBC : Google plans to stop making A.I. tools for oil and gas firms Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica : Google pledges not to make custom softwa...
Facebook expands fact-checking efforts to photos and videos, targeting those that are manipulated, out of context, or presented with false audio or text
Today, Facebook announced that it's … Paul Hill / Neowin : Facebook expands fact-checking to photos and videos in misinformation crackdown Cohen Coberly / TechSpot : Facebook is using AI to automatica...
Linux Mint site hacked on Feb. 20: hundreds downloaded a backdoored-variant of the Linux distro; Mint forum data including personal info for sale on dark web
Some people claim that Linux … Paul Ducklin / Naked Security : World's biggest Linux distro infected with malware Stefan Ortloff / Securelist : Beware of Backdoored Linux Mint ISOs Jim Lynch / InfoWor...