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January 31, 2025, 12:15 PM

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Business Insider:
In a leaked recording of an all-hands meeting, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta was slow to respond to TikTok's rise because “we didn't think TikTok was social”  —  - Mark Zuckerberg addressed several recent policy changes in a company all-hands meeting on Thursday.
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Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis:
A close look at DeepSeek, which is estimated to have access to ~50K Hopper GPUs, a total server capex of ~$1.3B, and a GPU spend of $500M+ over its history  —  The DeepSeek Narrative Takes the World by Storm  —  DeepSeek took the world by storm.  For the last week, DeepSeek has been the only topic …
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Samantha Kelly / CNET:
Apple agrees to a $20M settlement to resolve claims that some Watch batteries swelled over time, potentially damaging other key components, such as the display  —  Eligible Apple Watch owners have until April 10, 2025, to apply for a payout.  —  Owners of certain Apple Watch models …
Zoë Schiffer / Wired:
Sources: OpenAI plans to release o3-mini today with o1-level reasoning and 4o-level speed, as the company's staff is galvanized by DeepSeek's success  —  After a Chinese-startup roiled the industry, OpenAI readies a response—ahead of schedule.  —  It's been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: US officials are investigating whether DeepSeek bought advanced Nvidia chips from third parties in Singapore, circumventing US restrictions on AI chips  —  - Nvidia says it ‘insists’ that customers comply with laws  — Singapore accounts for about 20% of Nvidia's revenue
VideoCardz.com:
Nvidia updates its PC app and rolls out the new GPU drivers, bringing Multi Frame Generation to RTX 50 Series GPUs and DLSS transformer models to all RTX GPUs  —  NVIDIA DLSS4 released, Override feature now available  —  Following the launch of the GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 …
CRN:
Intel says it no longer plans to sell its next-gen Falcon Shores AI accelerator chip, which was set to launch in late 2025, to focus on its Jaguar Shores chip  —  Interim Intel co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus discloses the pivot in its AI data center strategy as Nvidia forges ahead …
Dan Primack / Axios:
Source: Anton Levy is stepping down as General Atlantic's co-president and chairman of global technology; Levy led investments in Alibaba, Facebook, and more  —  No word yet on his future plans, although it doesn't sound like anything is imminent.  — Levy will be replaced …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Intel reports Q4 revenue down 7% YoY to $14.26B, vs. $13.81B est., Data Center and AI down 3% YoY to $3.39B, and forecasts Q1 revenue below estimates  —  Intel issued disappointing quarterly guidance on Thursday, but reported earnings and revenue that topped estimates.  Shares were up 3% after hours.
Counterpoint Research:
Indian smartphone market's revenue rose 9% YoY in 2024, with shipments up 1% YoY to 153M units; Nothing was the fastest-growing brand, up 577% YoY  —  - The Indian smartphone market's Revenue on the basis of the wholesale price rose 9% YoY in 2024 to reach a record high.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
The Allen Institute for AI releases Tulu 3 405B, an open source model that it claims outperforms DeepSeek V3 and OpenAI's GPT-4o on certain benchmarks  —  Move over, DeepSeek.  There's a new AI champion in town — and they're American.  —  On Thursday, Ai2, a nonprofit AI research institute based …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Finout, which makes cloud cost management software, raised a $40M Series C, following a $26M Series B in March, bringing its total raised to $85M  —  Even just a few years ago, FinOps — a collection of best practices to manage the costs of cloud computing — wasn't something that was top of mind for a lot of businesses.

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