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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
TikTok advises its US Android users to sideload the app through APKs on its website; its app still isn't back in Apple's App Store and Google Play in the US — The social media app is still not available on Apple App Store and Google Play. — If you need to download and install TikTok in the US …
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| Shelly Banjo / Bloomberg: |
At a conference in January, Elon Musk said he hadn't bid for TikTok and was not “chomping at the bit to acquire” it, amid reports of China evaluating the option — Elon Musk said he isn't interested in buying TikTok, the popular social video app the US has tried to ban …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
PlayStation Network is experiencing a multi-hour outage, affecting account management, gaming and social, and PlayStation Video, Store, and the Direct website — PSN has been experiencing a multi-hour outage. You might have trouble loading purchased digital games or seeing which friends are online.
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How Sam Altman outflanked Elon Musk to win over Donald Trump, including by telling Trump in a phone call that the tech industry will achieve AGI during his term — After helping President Trump get elected, Elon Musk was poised to dominate the country's A.I. policies. Then Mr. Altman sneaked into the White House.
More: Spyglass, The Economic Times, SlashGear, and CoinGeek
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
DeepSeek R1 is more susceptible to jailbreaking than ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude; it can instruct on a bioweapon attack, write a pro-Hitler manifesto, and more — Testing shows the Chinese app is more likely to dispense details on how to make a Molotov cocktail or encourage self-harm by teenagers| Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab: |
Tests show DeepSeek's chatbot sometimes hallucinates cited URLs and often admits that sharing news articles' content could violate copyright and skirt paywalls — The DeepSeek hype cycle is in full force, but can the chatbot attribute sources more accurately than its competitors?| Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World: |
A look at the daunting task for Google and others of mapping roads and maintaining accurate maps in India, amid growing reports of misdirections in the country — Maintaining accurate maps is a daunting task in a country where road names and addresses are not standardized.| Fei-Fei Li / Financial Times: |
Three fundamental principles for the future of AI policymaking: have a clear view of reality, be pragmatic instead of ideological, and empower the AI ecosystem — It is possible to develop a model with the best intentions, and for that model to be misused later on| Scott Cacciola / New York Times: |
Some users are wearing the Apple Watch on their ankles to get around problems, like skin conditions; some believe health metrics are more accurate on the ankle — In pursuit of tracking fitness goals in a comfortable manner, a growing number of people are relocating their watches (and causing some confusion along the way).| Bloomberg: |
PitchBook: almost 66% of VC funding in Europe came from abroad in 2024; no European company with €100B+ in market cap has been built from scratch in 30 years — A fractured system is frustrating businesses and hurting the economy. — The natural location for UK payments firm Zilch … | Bloomberg: |
Tass: Rostelecom says an unspecified external impact has damaged a Russian underwater cable in the Baltic Sea, but there was no impact on subscribers — - Restoration work underway with no impact on subscribers — NATO recently boosted its patrol operations in the Baltic| Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: |
Leaked draft: the statement set to be signed at the Paris AI Action Summit barely mentions AI risks and fails to follow up on commitments from previous Summits — The statement, set to be signed by countries next week, is a ‘wasted opportunity’, experts say — and looks unlikely to be signed by US officials
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