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, […]
January 20, 2025news US drone makers are wary of working with Taiwanese companies, fearing China’s retaliation and being caught in a crossfire if US US drone makers are wary of working with Taiwanese companies, fearing China’s retaliation and being caught in a crossfire if US-China tensions […]
January 20, 2025news US Commerce Department official Alan Estevez says export rules have “definitely impeded” China’s AI chips, and defends the recent three Alan Estevez was at cutting edge of Biden administration’s efforts to take global lead in artificial intelligence Read More »
January 20, 2025news US Commerce Department official Alan Estevez says export rules have “definitely impeded” China’s AI chips, and defends the recent three Alan Estevez was at cutting edge of Biden administration’s efforts to take global lead in artificial intelligence Read More »
January 17, 2025news The FTC releases a report saying Microsoft’s $13B investment in OpenAI raises concerns that the company could extend its cloud computing dominance into AI (Bloomberg) The FTC releases a report saying Microsoft’s $13B investment in OpenAI raises concerns that the company could extend its cloud computing dominance […]
