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| Financial Times: |
Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits — Hedge fund billionaire Liang Wenfeng builds model on tight budget despite US attempt to halt China's high-tech ambitions
More: Wired, MIT Technology Review, VentureBeat, Hindustan Times, Moneycontrol, Neowin, and Nature
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones — If you hadn't heard, there's a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis …
More: Digit, The Decoder, and Latent Space
Mastodon: @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz. Threads: @vishvanands, @documentingmeta, @luokai, @sfscottp, @bilawal.ai, @sgulsach, and @benedictevans
X: @pmarca, @nealkhosla, @davidsholz, @samfbiddle, @ylecun, @kimmonismus, @emostaque, @hamandcheese, @tszzl, @yacinemtb, @packym, @pmarca, @rnaudbertrand, @thestalwart, @samfbiddle, @adamjohnsonchi, @samfbiddle, @tanayj, @emostaque, @schuldensuehner, @avichal, @emollick, @francoisfleuret, @firstadopter, @avischiffmann, @mrbcyber, @yacinemtb, @samfbiddle, @geiger_capital, @signulll, @burkov, and @yacinemtb. LinkedIn: Yann LeCun
Forums: Blind, r/OpenAI, and r/singularity
| Wall Street Journal: |
In email to X staff, Musk says “user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even”; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X — Banks are hoping to sell the X debt at around 90 to 95 cents on the dollar — Wall Street banks are getting ready …
More: The Verge, PCMag, Futurism, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, The Economic Times, Benzinga, The Wrap, and Reuters
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Threads: @vishwanathsarangkeller, @chrismaydev, @documentingmeta, and @parkert
X: @wholemarsblog, @asharma, and @parismarx
Forums: r/RealTesla, r/musked, r/PresidentElonMusk, r/economicCollapse, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/Twitter, r/news, and r/technology
| Politico: |
Supporters and skeptics of the TikTok ban in Congress say Trump's US ownership proposal bewilders them, claiming it doesn't comply with the divest-or-ban law — Members of Congress are declaring themselves bewildered by Donald Trump's latest proposal to save TikTok by brokering a joint-ownership deal.
More: Globe and Mail
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Bluesky: @karaswisher and @drewharwell.com. Threads: @drewharwell
X: @anupamchander, @washingtonpost, and @aaronblake
| The Guardian: |
An investigation reveals how the Israeli military's reliance on Microsoft's cloud and AI systems surged during the most intensive phase of the Israel-Hamas war — Leaked documents shed light on how Israel integrated the US tech giant into its war effort to meet growing demand for cloud and AI tools
More: Drop Site News and +972 Magazine
Bluesky: @leloveluck and @wnstnsmith. Mastodon: @ramsey@phpc.social. LinkedIn: Esra'a Al Shafei. Forums: r/Palestine
| New York Times: |
Elon Musk's first moves suggest DOGE will be closer to an IT project than the sweeping operation to slash $2T+ from the federal budget that he once predicted — The rebranding of a former White House digital office into the new Department of Government Efficiency signals its potential limits, budget experts said.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
UnitedHealth says the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit in February 2024 affected ~190M people, nearly double its previous estimate of 100M — UnitedHealth has confirmed the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit last February affected around 190 million people in America — nearly double previous estimates.
More: PCMag, Ace of Spades HQ, and Bloomberg
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta begins a “limited, early test” of ads in Threads in the US and Japan, with the goal of making the ads “as interesting as organic content” — Meta's X rival Threads said Friday that it is now testing ads with select brands in the U.S. and Japan.
More: Facebook, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Social Media Today, Tech Xplore, Benzinga, The Economic Times, The Economic Times, Yahoo Finance, Moneycontrol, Neowin, Android Headlines, PhoneArena, Search Engine Journal, Pocket-lint, TipRanks Financial, Search Engine Land, CNBC, Reuters, Ad Age, Thurrott, calgaryherald, Engadget, and Bloomberg
Threads: @mosseri, @zaccomode, @kurtwag8, @jampacksam, @cult_papa, @noahkalina, @crumbler, @parkerortolani, and @stevepsyd. X: @mikeisaac
LinkedIn: Samantha Stetson, Simon Whitcombe, and Nick Baughan
Forums: r/technology and r/ThreadsApp
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Zuckerberg says Meta is building an AI engineer that will “start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts” and is planning a 2GW+ data center — Social-media giant to spend between $60 billion and $65 billion, Zuckerberg says
More: Financial Express, TweakTown, The National Pulse, and SiliconANGLE
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| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
More: The Verge, New York Times, Türkiye Today, The Economic Times, Punch Newspapers, The Indian Express, Livemint, Benzinga, PYMNTS.com, MarketWatch, Fox Business, The Register, NewsBytes, Yahoo Finance, iPhone in Canada Blog, Bloomberg, Maginative, The News International, The Real Deal, The Information, Malay Mail, Sherwood News, PCMag, NBC News, Constellation Research, and Wall Street Journal
Bluesky: @loblaws-balrog, @carlquintanilla, @peark.es, @tkb24, @texasrunaway, @kurtwagner, and @kurtwagner
Threads: @benedictevans, @kurtwag8, @supremebagholder, @lessin, @sung.kim.mw, @jensscherbl, @tomgara, and @benedictevans
X: @natolambert, @matthewstoller, @nabeelqu, @nabeelqu, @supbagholder, @nearcyan, @matthewstoller, @nabeelqu, @morqon, @nabeelqu, @object_zero_, @ai_for_success, @supbagholder, @morqon, @kevinroose, @munster_gene, @morqon, @mikeisaac, @richlightshed, and @mikeisaac. LinkedIn: Santosh Janardhan
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg and Mark Zuckerberg
Forums: r/worldnews, r/artificial, and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Trump's EO to protect the dollar bars any further work on a CBDC and aligns the government's interests with those of stablecoin issuers like Tether and Circle — - US crypto czar sees potential for extending dollar dominance — USDT, USDC account for almost 90% of total stablecoin value| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
More: MarketWatch, Citation Needed, The White House, Yahoo Finance, Blockchain News, Motley Fool, Blockworks, The Block, Deseret News, New York Times, The Daily Hodl, Reuters, CoinDesk, Benzinga, Watcher Guru, Decrypt, and Bloomberg
Bluesky: @judah-grunstein and @carnage4life
X: @davidsacks, @katie_haun, @adamkovac, @jason, @chrisfralic, @eleanorterrett, @mdudas, @davidsacks, @jason, @atrupar, @cdixon, @cdixon, and @jenniferjjacobs
LinkedIn: Shailee Adinolfi and Renato Mariotti
Forums: r/FluentInFinance, r/MSTR, and r/Buttcoin
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple moved Kim Vorrath, a company veteran known for fixing troubled products, to its AI group to help improve Siri and Apple Intelligence — - Kim Vorrath previously worked on Vision Pro, iPhone software — The company is racing to catch up in artificial intelligence
More: The Verge, Business Today, Benzinga, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, Financial Express, iClarified, Tom's Guide, PYMNTS.com, iThinkDifferent, NewsBytes, BGR, Seeking Alpha, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, and MacRumors
Bluesky: @aftd.dev. Mastodon: @lapcatsoftware@mastodon …. X: @rjonesy, @kylebrussell, @markgurman, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Catherine McGrath / Fortune: |
White House crypto czar David Sacks says NFTs and memecoins are neither securities nor commodities, but collectibles that people buy to “commemorate something” — Non-fungible tokens and memecoins are neither securities nor commodities, according to White House crypto czar David Sacks.
More: Fox Business on YouTube and CryptoPotato
Bluesky: @paleofuture, @kellblog, @seanwince, @janusroberts, and @frydawolff
X: @cailen and @tomaxwell
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and Slashdot
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
OpenAI updates ChatGPT's Canvas feature with o1 model support and HTML and React code rendering, making it a direct competitor to Claude's Artifacts — OpenAI Canvas gets a huge upgrade. Canvas is the ChatGPT feature where ChatGPT can open up a shared editing environment and collaborate …
More: Seeking Alpha. X: @openai, @karinanguyen_, @kevinweil, @leeerob, @simonw, @karinanguyen_, @omarsar0, @openai, @latentmoss, @ai_for_success, @openai, @romainhuet, @edwinarbus, @simonw, and @sulmanrc
| Rolling Stone: |
Sources: Trump's team members don't buy Zuckerberg's right-wing conversion as entirely genuine; one senior official says he has a “lot more ass-kissing” to do — Trump's aides and allies aren't ready to buy the Facebook chief's right-wing conversion. “He can't just snap his fingers and make the past not happen”
More: Raw Story. Bluesky: @carterd, @quinnypig.com, @karlbode.com, @willoremus.com, @followtheh, @thinkyparts, @taumuyi, @mexiconews, @thepoptart, @zidan, @lbdoyle, @chiefwit, and @chaztrees. Threads: @vishesh92. Forums: r/politics
| Reuters: |
Uber and Ola deny setting fares based on phone models in India after a government body alleged that the firms use differential pricing for Android and iOS users — Uber (UBER.N) said it does not set ride prices based on a user's phone model, shortly after an Indian government body alleged … Sponsor Posts
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