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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov, built for US government use, and says 90K+ government employees have generated 18M+ prompts within ChatGPT since the start of 2024 — OpenAI on Tuesday announced its biggest product launch since its enterprise rollout. It's called ChatGPT Gov and was built specifically for U.S. government use.
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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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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
Sources: the highest ranks of the US Office of Personnel Management 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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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Doc: 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 …
More: The Bulwark, New Republic, Fortune, and Axios
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
The US Navy has instructed 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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| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
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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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| Financial Times: |
SemiAnalysis: DeepSeek spent “well over $500M on GPUs”; TechInsights says DeepSeek isn't “a big hit to Nvidia” but “a bigger problem for companies like OpenAI” — Short sellers profit as US chipmaker loses nearly $600bn in market value on Monday
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| 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| 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.
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| @yishan: |
The “DeepSeek moment” is like in 2004 when Google detailed using distributed algorithms to build a supercomputer, and unlike Sputnik, when Russia shared little — I think the Deepseek moment is not really the Sputnik moment, but more like the Google moment. If anyone was around in ~2004, you'll know what I mean, but more on that later. I think everyone is over-rotated on this because Deepseek came out of China. Let me try to un-rotate
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| 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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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Garmin smartwatch users report their devices are bricking after starting any activity that uses GPS; Garmin says it is looking into the issue — It's not just you. Several users are reporting their watches are crashing while displaying the ‘blue triangle of death.’ — It's not just you.
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| Ankush Khardori / Politico: |
Trump and the DOJ have been flouting a bipartisan law to shut down TikTok since his inauguration, and Republicans and Democrats seem to be doing little about it — Trump's TikTok bailout is worse than it looks. — For over a week now, Donald Trump and the Justice Department have been flouting the law meant to shut down TikTok.| Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA provisionally finds that competition in the cloud services market isn't working for consumers; AWS and Azure each control ~40% of the UK market — - CMA publishes provisional views in cloud services study — Intervention comes as UK government seeks to spur growth
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, a math geek who in 2015 founded hedge fund High-Flyer and who some compare to quant investing pioneer Jim Simons — The Chinese engineer built the AI company after founding a successful hedge-fund — Some call him China's Sam Altman.
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| The Information: |
OpenAI told some shareholders revenue from its $200/month ChatGPT Pro plan surpassed that of ChatGPT Enterprise, which was generating $25M/month as of September — Revenue from OpenAI's most expensive subscription tier of ChatGPT has surpassed revenue the company generates from customers …
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Arm China picks Chen Feng, an ex-executive at China-based chipmaker Rockchip Electronics, as its CEO; Liu Renchen and Eric Chen will resign as co-CEOs — - SoftBank-backed unit taps former Rockchip executive Chen Feng — Chip designer's China arm navigating global tech protectionism| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Spotify says it paid out a record $10B to the music industry in 2024, up from a then-record $9B in 2023, taking its total to nearly $60B since its 2006 founding — Spotify paid out $10 billion to the music industry in 2024 — some $1 billion more than last year, the previous record …
More: Spotify, The Verge, Digital Music News, The Wrap, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Thurrott, and Music Business Worldwide. Bluesky: @aussiepetec
| Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: |
Fusion reactor startup Helion, which has a deal to supply Microsoft with electricity by 2028, raised a $425M Series F, valuing the company at $5.245B — Few fusion startups have been as closely watched as Helion. The 12-year-old company is backed by Sam Altman, rumored to be in talks with OpenAI …
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