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January 28, 2025news

The UK CMA provisionally finds that competition in the cloud services market isn’t working for consumers; AWS and Azure each control 40% of the UK market (Bloomberg)

The UK CMA provisionally finds that competition in the cloud services market isn’t working for consumers; AWS and Azure each control 40% […]

January 27, 2025news

DeepSeek debuts a family of multimodal, MIT-licensed open-source models including Janus-Pro-7B, which it claims beats OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 in GenEval and DPG-Bench (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

DeepSeek, the viral AI company, has released a new set of multimodal AI models that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s DALL-E 3. […]

January 27, 2025news

Sources: some banks led by Morgan Stanley are in talks to sell up to $3B of senior secured debt tied to Twitter’s buyout, boosted by a claim to a ~$6B xAI stake (Bloomberg)

Sources: some banks led by Morgan Stanley are in talks to sell up to $3B of senior secured debt tied to Twitter’s […]

January 27, 2025news

Sources: some banks led by Morgan Stanley are in talks to sell up to $3B of senior secured debt tied to Twitter’s buyout, boosted by a claim to a ~$6B xAI stake (Bloomberg)

Sources: some banks led by Morgan Stanley are in talks to sell up to $3B of senior secured debt tied to Twitter’s […]

January 27, 2025news

DeepSeek debuts a family of multimodal, MIT-licensed open-source models including Janus-Pro-7B, which it claims beats OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 in GenEval and DPG-Bench (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

DeepSeek, the viral AI company, has released a new set of multimodal AI models that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s DALL-E 3. […]

January 27, 2025news

DeepSeek says it’s temporarily limiting new user registrations “due to large

DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services. Read More »

January 27, 2025news

Cancer research startup Manas AI, founded by Reid Hoffman and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, raised $24.6M to focus on breast and prostate cancer and lymphoma (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Cancer research startup Manas AI, founded by Reid Hoffman and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, raised $24.6M to focus on breast and prostate cancer […]

January 27, 2025news

A look at the surveillance tech that could power Trump’s immigration crackdown; a review of nearly 15K contracts shows ICE and USCIS spent $7.8B since 2020 (New York Times)

A look at the surveillance tech that could power Trump’s immigration crackdown; a review of nearly 15K contracts shows ICE and USCIS […]

January 27, 2025news

How DeepSeek outpaced OpenAI at a fraction of the cost: open source, pure reinforcement learning, no supervised fine-tuning, and building on DeepSeek-R1-Zero (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat)

DeepSeek R1’s Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. This […]

January 24, 2025news

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 (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 […]