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Bluesky proposes letting users indicate if their data can be used for AI training, web archiving, and more; critics see it as a reversal of its prior statements — Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether …
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| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
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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| Richard Spencer / The Times: |
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.
Bluesky: @rinachandran and @restofworld.org
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Garry Tan says ~80% of YC's W25 batch is AI focused and the cohort is growing significantly faster than past ones, with actual revenue, thanks to “vibe coding” — WATCH NOW — Silicon Valley's earliest stage companies are getting a major boost from artificial intelligence.| TechCrunch: |
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| 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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| Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
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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| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
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.| Bloomberg: |
Baidu releases Ernie X1, an AI model that articulates its reasoning similar to DeepSeek R1, and upgrades its flagship foundation model to Ernie 4.5 — The Ernie X1 model by China's internet search leader works similarly to DeepSeek R1 — which shocked Silicon Valley by offering comparable performance …
More: Reuters
| 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 …
More: Digital Trends
| TechCrunch: |
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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