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| Financial Times: |
OpenAI says it has seen some evidence that DeepSeek used “distillation” to train its open-source competitor by using outputs from OpenAI's proprietary models — White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether a DeepSeek-linked group obtained a large amount of data from OpenAI's API in an unauthorized manner — Microsoft's security researchers in the fall observed individuals they believe may be linked to DeepSeek exfiltrating a large amount …
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| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
David Sacks says there's “substantial evidence” that DeepSeek “distilled knowledge out of OpenAI models and I don't think OpenAI is very happy about this” — White House artificial intelligence czar David Sacks said there's “substantial evidence” …
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5-Max, an AI model that the company's cloud unit claims “outperforms” GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.1-405B “almost across the board” — Chinese tech company Alibaba (9988.HK) on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model …
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| Dario Amodei: |
DeepSeek makes US export controls to China even more important, and DeepSeek-V3 is not a unique breakthrough but an expected point on a cost reduction curve — A few weeks ago I made the case for stronger US export controls on chips to China. Since then DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q4 net profit of €2.69B on €9.26B net sales, net bookings up 169% QoQ to €7.09B, and expects 2025 net sales of €30B to €35B, up from €28.3B in 2024 — Dutch semiconductor giant ASML on Wednesday reported a big jump in fourth-quarter net bookings …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
Sources: the US Office of Personnel Management's highest ranks are now controlled by former employees of Elon Musk's companies, like 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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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Comcast starts rolling out its “pioneering new, ultra-low lag connectivity experience” to select US cities, using the L4S standard to significantly cut latency — The new technology is based on a standard called L4S, which can significantly reduce latency to help things like video games feel smoother.| Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
The US Copyright Office says using AI tools to assist in creative processes doesn't compromise copyright protections as long as the content has human authorship — The U.S. Copyright Office declared Wednesday that the use of artificial intelligence tools to assist in the creative process does not undermine the copyright of a work.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Trump administration is exploring additional curbs on the sale of chips to China to cover Nvidia's scaled-down H20, designed for the Chinese market — - Officials had very early talks about restricting the H20 chip — Nvidia designed the scaled-down H20 product for Chinese market
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has been working with SpaceX and T-Mobile to add Starlink support from iOS 18.3; T-Mobile is testing it with some users, exclusively for texting — - T-Mobile begins pushing offering in limited beta test to users — Apple Inc. has been secretly working with SpaceX …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
US officials and Google researchers: China, Iran, and 18+ others are using AI, including Gemini, to bolster their cyberattacks against US and global targets — A cyber-threat report from Google is shedding light on how foreign actors are leveraging generative AI to boost their hacking prowess.| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix now lets iPhone and iPad app users download an entire TV show season with one tap, a much-requested feature that launched on Android in 2021 — The new feature lets users download an entire season of a show with one tap.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| New York Times: |
How employees at Meta, Google, and more have quietly protested tech's rightward shift, as Mark Zuckerberg and others embrace Trump and muffle internal dissent — As Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans have embraced President Trump and muffled internal dissent at their companies … | Stefano Bernabei / Reuters: |
DeepSeek is no longer on Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store in Italy, after its data protection regulator said it asked DeepSeek about personal data use — The Chinese artifical intelligence application DeepSeek appeared to be unavailable on Wednesday in Apple and Google app stores in Italy on Wednesday.
More: The Record, Reuters, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Neowin, CoinGape, and Mashable
| Christopher Dring / Video Games Chronicle: |
Ampere: users spent $465M on Microsoft games in December, making it the biggest publisher, ahead of EA's $366M; Call of Duty HQ had 38M MAUs in November 2024 — NEARLY $0.5BN WAS SPENT ON XBOX GAMES ACROSS STEAM, PLAYSTATION AND XBOX IN DECEMBER — $465 million was spent on Microsoft games …
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| Matthew Connatser / Tom's Hardware: |
Huawei adds DeepSeek's R1 to its ModelArts Studio platform, saying the free model is “Ascend-adapted”, referencing its data center GPUs, but offers few details — Nvidia has competition in China. … The tech company explicitly said this version is “Ascend-adapted,” as in Huawei's Ascend data center GPUs.| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google's maps unit reclassifies the US as a “sensitive country”, a designation 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 …
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| bellingcat: |
A look at MrDeepFakes, a site with obscure ownership that hosts non-consensual deepfake porn, has close to 650K members, and gets millions of visits per month — This article is the result of a collaboration with German YouTube channel STRG_F. You can watch their documentary here.
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| Cynthia Littleton / Variety: |
Sony names CFO Hiroki Totoki as CEO, succeeding Kenichiro Yoshida, and PlayStation co-CEO Hideaki Nishino as CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, from April 1 — The corporate shuffle, effective April 1, was approved late Tuesday by the electronics and entertainment giant's board of directors in Tokyo.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo plans to test in 10 new US cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego, as it aims for robotaxi operations in Austin, Atlanta, and Miami soon — The theme of this year's road trip is ‘generalizability.’ — The theme of this year's road trip is ‘generalizability.’| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Appfigures: ChatGPT's app has grossed $529M since its May 2023 release, around 4x the second-highest earner, as AI app spending grew ~4x YoY to $1.4B in 2024 — - US spends more on AI apps than other top 10 markets combined — OpenAI's app has earned several times more than next rival
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