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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
DeepSeek's iOS app is now #1 on the “Top Free Apps” chart in Apple's App Store in the US, just ahead of ChatGPT  —  Since Chinese AI company DeepSeek released an open version of its reasoning model R1 at the beginning of this week, many in the tech industry have been making grand pronouncements …
Jeffrey Emanuel / YouTubeTranscriptOptimizer:
A bear case for Nvidia: competition from hardware startups, inference-heavy “reasoning” models, DeepSeek's training and inference efficiency breakthroughs, more  —  As someone who spent ~10 years working as a generalist investment analyst at various long/short hedge funds …
The Information:
Sources: Meta set up four war rooms to analyze DeepSeek's tech, two focusing on how High-Flyer reduced training costs, one on what data High-Flyer may have used  —  Artificial intelligence researchers at Meta Platforms have been in panic mode.  In recent days, leaders of some of the company's …
Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng told Chinese Premier Li Qiang in a Jan. 20 meeting that US export controls on advanced chips to China were still a bottleneck  —  DeepSeek is called ‘amazing and impressive’ despite working with less-advanced chips  —  SINGAPORE—A Chinese artificial-intelligence company …
Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review:
Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration  —  The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model.  —  The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …
Zeyi Yang / Wired:
DeepSeek, which started as a deep-learning research branch of Chinese quant hedge fund High-Flyer, is now giving US AI giants a run for their money  —  When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent.
Reuters:
Trump denies talks with Oracle about a TikTok deal, says “I have spoken to many people about TikTok” and expects a decision in the next 30 days  —  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was in talks with multiple people over buying TikTok and would likely have a decision …
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Sources: the Trump admin is in talks for Oracle and a group of US investors to take over TikTok's global operations, with ByteDance retaining a minority stake  —  The Trump administration is working on a plan to save TikTok that involves tapping software company Oracle and a group …
Hall of Impossible Dreams:
A look at the growing prevalence of LLM-written posts that have been backdated and attributed to human authors on Physics Forums, which was founded in 2001  —  What Internet Will Look Like in the Future  —  cripes does anybody remember Google People  —  Does anybody remember PhysicsForums?
New York Times:
Some crypto executives worry Trump's memecoin undercut the industry's credibility at the very moment crypto is seeking a prominent place in mainstream finance

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Bloomberg:
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