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DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has become a superstar in China with tourism around his origin story, as DeepSeek proves an unexpected boon for President Xi — An entire tourist industry has sprung up around the origin story of the man whose low-cost artificial intelligence model has taken the world by storm| Kinling Lo / Rest of World: |
A look at the adoption of DeepSeek across China, as Chinese automakers, smartphone sellers, and others rush to build services on top of the homegrown AI model — Chinese companies, as a signal of patriotism, are racing to build services on top of the homegrown AI model that has taken the world by storm since January.| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Google's Gemma 3 and Cohere's Command A, which require just one or two Nvidia AI chips to run, hint at an industry-wide push for more efficient AI software — Nearly two months after the viral success of China's DeepSeek prompted a reckoning over how much tech companies spend … | Jackson Healy / Courthouse News Service: |
Former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick sues G/O Media over March 2024 articles in Gizmodo and Kotaku accusing him of workplace harassment, discrimination — Robert Kotick accused the media company of knowingly lying about since-dismissed workplace sex harassment and discrimination charges.
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21Shares plans to liquidate two actively managed bitcoin and ether futures ETFs, following $1.66B in outflows from US-listed spot bitcoin ETFs this month — The firm is liquidating its ARK 21Shares Active On-Chain Bitcoin Strategy ETF and ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Ethereum Strategy ETF amid the downturn.
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Meta's effort to neutralize Sarah Wynn-Williams' book, filled with gossipy anecdotes, feels less about defending its reputation than a need to punish a defector — Mark Zuckerberg might be in his post-fact-checking-era. But that hasn't stopped Meta from going after the author of Careless People.
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The real threat of AI models training on open-access material is that they may bleed free repositories dry by draining resources and not providing attribution — Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later.| Will Knight / Wired: |
The NIST's new directive to AI Safety Institute partners scrubs mentions of “AI safety” and “AI fairness” and prioritizes “reducing ideological bias” in models — A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”
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A look at Nvidia's challenges, including big customers building their own AI chips, Trump's trade wars, and startups like DeepSeek, ahead of its GTC conference — No one has benefited more from the AI boom than Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. With troubling signs ahead, he's trying to extend the good times.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
A developer who had a one-day session with Swift Assist in late 2024 says its UI is complete but results were not very good, and it falls apart on complex tasks — In an item earlier this week observing that Swift Assist, the most ambitious Xcode-related Apple Intelligence feature shown at WWDC last year …
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A lack of consensus on what defines an AI “agent” is leading to customer frustration, as Microsoft, OpenAI, Salesforce, and others market it differently — Silicon Valley is bullish on AI agents. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said agents will “join the workforce” this year.
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Delaware lawmakers are considering a bill that would transform the state's corporate law to keep it attractive to both investors and CEOs, following Musk's exit — Tesla CEO Elon Musk turned Delaware's corporate law into a hot-button topic last year after a judge there ruled … Sponsor Posts
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