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DeepSeek-R1 refuses to answer ~85% of 1,360 prompts on sensitive topics in China, but the restrictions can be bypassed via simple jailbreaking — DeepSeek-R1 is a blockbuster open-source model that is now at the top of the U.S. App Store. — As a Chinese company, DeepSeek is beholden to CCP policy.
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
The US Navy has instructed its members to avoid using DeepSeek “in any capacity” due to “potential security and ethical concerns” — The U.S. Navy has instructed its members to avoid using artificial intelligence technology from China's DeepSeek, CNBC has learned.
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| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
David Sacks says there's “substantial evidence” that DeepSeek “distilled knowledge out of OpenAI models and I don't think OpenAI is very happy about this” — White House artificial intelligence czar David Sacks said there's “substantial evidence” …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail two Apple silicon side-channel attacks that could leak secrets: SLAP, affecting M2, A15, and newer chips, and FLOP, affecting M3, M4, and A17 — Apple-designed chips powering Macs, iPhones, and iPads contain two newly discovered vulnerabilities that leak credit card information …
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
Sources: the highest ranks of the US Office of Personnel Management now include former employees of Elon Musk's companies, including xAI and the Boring Company — Sources tell WIRED that the OPM's top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has been working with SpaceX and T-Mobile to add Starlink support in iOS 18.3; T-Mobile is testing with some users, only for texting initially — - T-Mobile begins pushing offering in limited beta test to users — Apple Inc. has been secretly working with SpaceX …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Doc: Google's maps unit reclassified the US as a “sensitive country”, reserved for states with strict governments or border disputes, after Trump's map changes — Google's maps division on Monday reclassified the U.S. as a “sensitive country,” a designation it reserves for states …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov, built for US government use, and says 90K+ government employees have generated 18M+ prompts within ChatGPT since the start of 2024 — OpenAI on Tuesday announced its biggest product launch since its enterprise rollout. It's called ChatGPT Gov and was built specifically for U.S. government use.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Hugging Face researchers unveil Open-R1, a project to “systematically reconstruct DeepSeek-R1's data and training pipeline” for the open-source community — Barely a week after DeepSeek released its R1 “reasoning” AI model — which sent markets into a tizzy …
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| Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: |
Block introduces an on-device, open-source AI agent called Goose, which allows developers to choose their preferred LLM to automate engineering tasks — Whether for developer needs or mundane tasks, the artificial intelligence (AI) tide appears to be turning in favor of open-source solutions.
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
X announces X Money Account, a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments service with Visa as its launch partner, debuting “later this year” — Elon Musk's social media platform X on Tuesday announced the launch of a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments services provided by Visa.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI's API was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to DeepSeek — Microsoft's security researchers in the fall observed individuals they believe may be linked to DeepSeek exfiltrating a large amount … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
An ex-OpenAI safety researcher says he's “terrified” by AI development's pace and that labs racing to AGI can cut corners on alignment, pushing all to speed up — Steven Adler expresses concern industry taking ‘very risky gamble’ and raises doubts about future of humanity| Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: |
In an internal memo, Andrew Bosworth says Meta's Reality Labs beat nearly all its sales and user targets for 2024, growing sales “>40% YoY overall” — - Meta's Reality Labs exceeded nearly all its 2024 sales and user targets, an internal memo said.| Cynthia Littleton / Variety: |
Sony names CFO Hiroki Totoki as CEO, succeeding Kenichiro Yoshida, and PlayStation co-CEO Hideaki Nishino as CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, from April 1 — The corporate shuffle, effective April 1, was approved late Tuesday by the electronics and entertainment giant's board of directors in Tokyo.
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| Financial Times: |
SemiAnalysis: DeepSeek spent “well over $500M on GPUs”; TechInsights says DeepSeek isn't “a big hit to Nvidia” but “a bigger problem for companies like OpenAI” — Short sellers profit as US chipmaker loses nearly $600bn in market value on Monday
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| Ankush Khardori / Politico: |
Trump and the DOJ have been flouting a bipartisan law to shut down TikTok since his inauguration, and Republicans and Democrats seem to be doing little about it — Trump's TikTok bailout is worse than it looks. — For over a week now, Donald Trump and the Justice Department have been flouting the law meant to shut down TikTok.| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
MGM Resorts agrees to pay $45M to settle 14 class action lawsuits related to a data breach in 2019 and a ransomware attack the company experienced in 2023 — MGM Resorts International agreed to pay $45 million to settle multiple class action lawsuits related to a data breach in 2019 …
More: Cyber Daily and Las Vegas Review-Journal
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Garmin smartwatch users report their devices are bricking after starting any activity that uses GPS; Garmin says it is looking into the issue — It's not just you. Several users are reporting their watches are crashing while displaying the ‘blue triangle of death.’ — It's not just you.
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Forums: r/Garmin, r/technews, r/technology, r/gadgets, and Slashdot
| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, a math geek who in 2015 founded hedge fund High-Flyer and who some compare to quant investing pioneer Jim Simons — The Chinese engineer built the AI company after founding a successful hedge-fund — Some call him China's Sam Altman.
More: Digit, Associated Press, ShanghaiEye on YouTube, Bloomberg, A Wealth of Common Sense, TechCrunch, Politico, New York Post, Livemint, Forbes, Reuters, and Wired
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