January 21, 2025news The SEC launches a “Crypto 2.0” task force led by SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, to create a “comprehensive and clear regulatory framework for crypto assets” (Jeff Cox/CNBC) The Trump administration took its first steps Tuesday toward an expected lowering of regulatory barriers for cryptocurrency. Read More »
January 21, 2025news DeepSeek’s new MIT In another open-source win, DeepSeek aims to redefine ‘open AI’ with R1, its latest model. Read More »
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. […]
