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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
In a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman admitted that DeepSeek has lessened OpenAI's lead and said OpenAI has been “on the wrong side of history” in terms of open sourcing — To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman …
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Forums: r/NoShitSherlock, r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
When asked in an AMA if OpenAI would release model weights and research, Sam Altman said “we are discussing” and “it's also not our current highest priority” — CEO of the ChatGPT maker says his company has been ‘on the wrong side of history’ with open-source software
More: The Economic Times, Thurrott, The Guardian, Business Insider, TweakTown, Wccftech, and Business Today
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LinkedIn: Neil Humphreys, Angel Maldonado, and Drew O'Sullivan
| Josh Boak / Associated Press: |
Donald Trump fires Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra, one of the more important regulators and holdovers from the Biden administration — President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover.
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| Matthew Keys / The Desk: |
The US NTSB says it will not email news outlets and reporters with updates about the two recent plane crashes, and will instead post updates on its X account — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters with updates …
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| Andy Bounds / Financial Times: |
The EU proposes customs reforms that make ecommerce platforms such as Temu, Shein, and Amazon Marketplace liable for dangerous or illegal products they sell — Proposed customs reform would allow officials to better inspect and control packages from China — The EU plans to make ecommerce platforms … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India announces a $1.15B Fund of Funds for startups, with an “expanded scope” compared to past initiatives, and extends tax benefits for startups by five years — India announced a new $1.15 billion Fund of Funds for startups on Saturday while unveiling sweeping regulatory reforms … | Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
DeepSeek is supercharging the debate over how much US companies should share about their AI breakthroughs, many of which have been detailed in scientific papers — DeepSeek is supercharging the debate over how much companies should share their AI knowledge
More: Yahoo Finance, Business Post, and ChinaTechNews.com
| Mayumi Negishi / Bloomberg: |
Japan plans to expand export controls on advanced chips, lithography equipment, and cryocoolers for quantum computers, with new rules taking effect by late May — Japan expanded its export controls to include cutting-edge chips and quantum computer-related technology, a move China warned …
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| Shivangi Acharya / Reuters: |
India removes import duties on some components for making smartphones, in a boost for local production efforts and benefiting companies like Apple and Xiaomi — India has removed import duties on some components key to producing mobile phones, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced …
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| Ayush Tiwari / Scroll.in: |
A look at the online scam industry in Southeast Asia and how Indians became its targets; 2,358 Indians were rescued from scam compounds between 2022 and 2024 — Essential background on how the online scam industry sprung up and evolved - and how Indians became its targets.
Bluesky: @scroll.in. X: @singhamritaa, @sheehanj920, @scroll_in, @scroll_in, @nidhisuresh_, @scroll_in, @sighyush, @nehaverma107, @shoaibdaniyal, @scroll_in, @scroll_in, @haramitheatre, @scroll_in, and @scroll_in. LinkedIn: Ayush Tiwari
| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Appfigures: DeepSeek has topped the list of the most downloaded mobile apps across 140 markets, with India contributing 15.6% of all downloads since its launch — - The chatbot is most-downloaded app across Android and iPhone — Chinese startup has upended thinking about AI development
More: Inc42 Media, The Economic Times, Business Standard, and NewsBytes. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
MLCommons and Hugging Face release Unsupervised People's Speech, a dataset for AI research containing more than 1M hours of audio spanning at least 89 languages — MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platform Hugging Face to release …
More: MLCommons on Hugging Face, WinBuzzer, and MLCommons
| Simon Willison's Weblog: |
OpenAI's o3-mini costs $1.10 per 1M input tokens and $4.40 per 1M output tokens, cheaper than GPT-4o, which costs $2.50 and $10, and o1, which costs $15 and $60 — OpenAI's o3-mini is out today. As with other o-series models it's a slightly difficult one to evaluate …
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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