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| Financial Times: |
OpenAI says it has seen some evidence that DeepSeek used “distillation” to train its open-source competitor by using outputs from OpenAI's proprietary models — White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
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LinkedIn: Georg Zoeller and Guan Seng Khoo, PhD
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether a DeepSeek-linked group obtained a large amount of data from OpenAI's API in an unauthorized manner — Microsoft's security researchers in the fall observed individuals they believe may be linked to DeepSeek exfiltrating a large amount …
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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” …
More: Reuters, The Economic Times, Axios, Proactive, MarketWatch, The Indian Express, and Benzinga
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has been working with SpaceX and T-Mobile to add Starlink support from iOS 18.3; T-Mobile is testing it with some users, exclusively for texting — - T-Mobile begins pushing offering in limited beta test to users — Apple Inc. has been secretly working with SpaceX …
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
Sources: the US Office of Personnel Management's highest ranks are now controlled by former employees of Elon Musk's companies, like 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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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5-Max, an AI model that the company's cloud unit claims “outperforms” GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.1-405B “almost across the board” — Chinese tech company Alibaba (9988.HK) on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model …
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Forums: r/technology, r/artificial, r/worldnews, and r/OpenAI
| 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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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google's maps unit reclassifies the US as a “sensitive country”, a designation 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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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
The US could encourage future DeepSeeks to happen inside the US by funding the NAIRR, a pilot project providing compute power to university-level researchers — The Scene — More than two weeks before the recent market meltdown, OpenAI's head of global policy Chris Lehane told me he thought …
More: New York Times, The Economic Times, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal
X: @big_orrin and @nrmarda
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q4 net profit of €2.69B on €9.26B net sales, net bookings up 169% QoQ to €7.09B, and expects 2025 net sales of €30B to €35B, up from €28.3B in 2024 — Dutch semiconductor giant ASML on Wednesday reported a big jump in fourth-quarter net bookings …
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Forums: r/AMD_Stock and r/wallstreetbets
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, Fortune, Financial Times, and Nikkei Asia
| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Appfigures: ChatGPT's app has grossed $529M since its May 2023 release, around 4x the second-highest earner, as AI app spending grew ~4x YoY to $1.4B in 2024 — - US spends more on AI apps than other top 10 markets combined — OpenAI's app has earned several times more than next rival
More: TechCrunch and Appfigures
| Wall Street Journal: |
US officials and Google researchers: China, Iran, and 18+ others are using AI, including Gemini, to bolster their cyberattacks against US and global targets — A cyber-threat report from Google is shedding light on how foreign actors are leveraging generative AI to boost their hacking prowess.
More: Metacurity and Google Cloud Blog
| 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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Forums: r/KotakuInAction, r/Games, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/playstation, and r/PS5
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
The US Navy instructs 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.
More: TechCrunch, Help Net Security, The Guardian, Technext, TechRadar, Infosecurity, Fortune, Bloomberg Law, Moneycontrol, AIM Media House, The Economic Times, New York Post, Just The News, and Wired
Bluesky: @karlbode.com and @jordanuhl.com
X: @davidsacks and @farhip
Forums: r/ChatGPT, r/navy, r/espionage, r/nottheonion, and r/technology
| 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.| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
The UK National Audit Office says the government was operating at least 228 “legacy” computer systems as of March 2024, increasing the risk of a disruptive hack — - More than 200 outdated computer systems used, auditors find — Vacancies exceeded 50% in some central government departments
More: The Guardian and National Audit Office
Bluesky: @philedwards and @radiobeartime.com
X: @pinstripedline, @naoorguk, and @naoorguk
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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