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| Financial Times: |
OpenAI says it had 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
Forums: r/technology, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/neoliberal, r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT, r/aiwars, and r/artificial
| 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 …
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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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| 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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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
Sources: the US Office of Personnel Management's highest ranks 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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| 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 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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| 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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| 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.
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| 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| 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 … | 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.
More: block.github.io, Business Insider, Engadget, and VentureBeat
| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5-Max, an AI model that the company 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 …
More: Qwen, Financial Express, Moneycontrol, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, AI News, Proactive, and VentureBeat
| 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.| bellingcat: |
A look at MrDeepFakes, a site with obscure ownership that hosts non-consensual deepfake porn, has close to 650K members, and gets millions of visits per month — This article is the result of a collaboration with German YouTube channel STRG_F. You can watch their documentary here.
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| 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 …
More: Tech Monitor, ASML Netherlands BV, Reuters, Financial Times, MarketWatch, TNW, CNBC, nltimes.nl, Bloomberg, Reuters, RTÉ, and TechPowerUp
| 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
More: The Independent, Channel Futures, and WinBuzzer
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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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| 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| 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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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Carta data shows that 966 US-based startups shut down in 2024, compared to 769 in 2023, with enterprise SaaS startups accounting for 32% of the closures — More startups shut down in 2024 than the year prior, according to multiple sources, and that's not really a surprise considering … Sponsor Posts
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