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| Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review: |
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 …
More: arXiv.org, Decrypt, Business Insider, WinBuzzer, Shelly Palmer, Observer, Digit, Latent Space, and Techstrong.ai
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Forums: r/neoliberal and Beehaw
| Financial Times: |
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 — Hedge fund billionaire Liang Wenfeng builds model on tight budget despite US attempt to halt China's high-tech ambitions
More: Forexlive, Constellation Research, Bloomberg, ChinaTalk, VentureBeat, Hindustan Times, Moneycontrol, and CNBC
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| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
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.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
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 — If you hadn't heard, there's a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis …
More: The Decoder. Mastodon: @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz. Threads: @documentingmeta, @vishvanands, @luokai, @sfscottp, @bilawal.ai, @sgulsach, and @benedictevans
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LinkedIn: Yann LeCun, Omar Tawakol, and Matt Marshall
Forums: Blind, r/OpenAI, and r/singularity
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
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 …
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| Politico: |
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 — Members of Congress are declaring themselves bewildered by Donald Trump's latest proposal to save TikTok by brokering a joint-ownership deal.
More: NPR, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Guardian, Globe and Mail, and WBKO-TV
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Bluesky: @karaswisher and @drewharwell.com. Threads: @drewharwell
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
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.| New York Times: |
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 — The president's promotion of a speculative digital coin left some crypto investors feeling blindsided, while others saw it as a gimmick …
More: Washington Post, ZyCrypto, The Boston Globe, Raw Story, and Alternet.org
| New York Times: |
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 — The rebranding of a former White House digital office into the new Department of Government Efficiency signals its potential limits, budget experts said.| Bloomberg: |
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
More: Crypto Briefing, CoinGape, CleanTechnica, Decrypt, and The Block
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
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 — I was in middle school the last time I took a Spanish class. I remember enough for toddler talk — phrases like …
More: UploadVR. Bluesky: @nvondarza, @tylerh.social, and @papapishu. Mastodon: @vicmsong@mastodon.social. Threads: @vicmsong
| Wall Street Journal: |
In email to X staff, Musk says “user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even”; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X — Banks are hoping to sell the X debt at around 90 to 95 cents on the dollar — Wall Street banks are getting ready …
More: The Verge, Reuters, Futurism, Mashable, WinBuzzer, New York Times, PCMag, The Economic Times, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, and The Wrap
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