January 21, 2025news The UK debuts digital driving licenses and veteran ID cards, launching in 2025 via the GOV.UK Wallet, and AI tools, nicknamed “Humphrey”, to help civil servants (Anna Gross/Financial Times) New app will also include documents showing criminal record checks and proof of eligibility for state benefits Read More »
January 21, 2025news Grindr debuts two of six features set for 2025, including an opt-in AI chat summary, and says 10K US users are testing its AI-based “Wingman”, ahead of schedule (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) Grindr debuts two of six features set for 2025, including an opt-in AI chat summary, and says 10K US users are testing […]
January 21, 2025news The UK debuts digital driving licenses and veteran ID cards, launching in 2025 via the GOV.UK Wallet, and AI tools, nicknamed “Humphrey”, to help civil servants (Anna Gross/Financial Times) New app will also include documents showing criminal record checks and proof of eligibility for state benefits Read More »
January 21, 2025news Amazon’s IMDb says founder Col Needham will step down as CEO and move to executive chair, and appoints COO Nikki Santoro as CEO; Needham launched IMDb in 1990 (Todd Spangler/Variety) IMDb founder Col Needham is stepping aside as CEO of the Amazon-owned site and COO Nikki Santoro is stepping up to replace […]
January 21, 2025news Chinese smartphone sales fell 3.2% YoY in Q4 2024, the only 2024 quarter with a YoY drop; Apple fell 18.2% while Huawei rose 15.5% for an 18.1% market share (Counterpoint Research) During the quarter, Huawei secured the top spot, followed by Xiaomi. Huawei’s sales grew 15.5% YoY, supported by the release of the […]
January 20, 2025news Chinese AI lab DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-R1, an MIT-licensed model that does well with math, code, and reasoning tasks, alongside other open and distilled models (Simon Willison/Simon Willison’s Weblog) DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3. That model […]
January 20, 2025news Metropolis, an AI The general hype around all things AI is not lifting all boats, as certain startups continue to struggle and look for exits. […]
January 20, 2025news A memecoin named Official Barron Trump hit a $460M market cap before falling 95%; a Pump.fun user behind it has debuted other unofficial coins called “official” (Tim Copeland/The Block) A memecoin named Official Barron Trump hit a $460M market cap before falling 95%; a Pump.fun user behind it has debuted other […]
January 20, 2025news Democratic Republic of Congo lawyers say Belgium has started a criminal probe into allegations that Apple has knowingly sourced “blood minerals” from the DRC (Financial Times) Lawyers for DRC allege iPhones and other electronics use minerals supplied by armed groups behind atrocities Read More »
January 20, 2025news The European Commission says Facebook, X, YouTube, and others agreed to an updated code of conduct, first set up in May 2016, over hate speech under the DSA (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) The European Commission says Facebook, X, YouTube, and others agreed to an updated code of conduct, first set up in May 2016, […]
