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| 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
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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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| 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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| 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 … | 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 … | 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
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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 … | 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.
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| 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
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
California DMV: a total of 4.5M autonomous vehicle test miles were logged in 2024, down 50% YoY, with driverless testing falling 83% YoY to just 552,895 miles — Tech companies developing self-driving vehicle technology have tapped the brakes on testing on California's public roads … | 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 …
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| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI told some shareholders that ChatGPT had 15.5M paid subscribers in 2024, up from 5.8M in 2023, and usage of OpenAI's API increased seven-fold — Paid subscribers to ChatGPT nearly tripled to 15.5 million last year from 5.8 million a year earlier, OpenAI recently told some shareholders …
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| 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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