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 […]
January 24, 2025news Similarweb: RedNote’s DAUs in the US fell by 54% on January 20 when the TikTok ban was put on hold, after reaching a high of 32.5M DAUs on the day of the ban (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) In the days leading up to the TikTok ban in the U.S. on Sunday, U.S. users flooded the Chinese app RedNote, which […]
January 24, 2025news Retro Biosciences, the Sam Altman The San Francisco-based start-up plans to get its first drug into trials this year Read More »
January 24, 2025news Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is planning to invest $60B to $65B in capex in 2025, will end the year with 1.3M+ GPUs, and plans to grow its AI teams “significantly” (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters) Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is planning to invest $60B to $65B in capex in 2025, will end the year with 1.3M+ GPUs, […]
January 24, 2025news The CMA says Google has agreed to curb UK businesses using fake reviews to boost star ratings and must report to the CMA on its efforts for the next three years (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) Fabulous, now please make it global. Read More »
January 24, 2025news The EC says it will question Meta, X, Snap, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn on January 31 about their plans to counter disinformation ahead of elections in Germany (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg) The EC says it will question Meta, X, Snap, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn on January 31 about their plans to counter disinformation […]
January 24, 2025news On January 31, the EC will question Meta, X, Snap, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn on their plans to counter disinformation ahead of elections in Germany (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg) On January 31, the EC will question Meta, X, Snap, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn on their plans to counter disinformation ahead of […]
