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Chinese AI models’ global adoption has nearly tripled from 13% to approximately 30% of total usage in 2025, according to OpenRouter’s 100 trillion token analysis Programming and roleplay dominate AI usage patterns, with open-source models capturing one-third of the market Recent data reveals that Chinese AI models’ global adoption has reached unprecedented levels, with models ...
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Troy Smothers was a USMC sergeant when he deployed to Ukraine in 2005. He now travels to Ukraine to help build unjammable, fiber-optic drones. Read more ›
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Harvey's CEO reveals the demo tactic that helped him win early customers for his legal AI startup: Going straight at lawyers' arguments. Read more ›
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Elyos AI, a London-based startup building AI agents for the trades and field services industry, today announced it has raised €11.1 million ($13 million) in Series A funding to accelerate product development and international expansion. The round was led by Blackbird Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and Pi Labs. Elyos AI has raised a ... Read more ›
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Jan. 19, No. 483. Read more ›
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The Infinix Note Edge that we teased a few days ago is now fully official. The phone is 7.2mm thick, weighs 185g, and is powered by MediaTek's recently announced Dimensity 7100 SoC, paired with up to 8GB of RAM. There's a curved 6.78-inch screen with "1.5K" resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, 2,800Hz touch sampling rate, symmetrical ultra-narrow 1.87mm bezels, 4,500-nit peak brightness, and Gorilla Glass 7i on top, dual JBL stereo... Read more ›
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Infinix has entered the trendy slim space with the freshly unveiled Infinix Note Edge. Now, this isn't one of those sub-6mm slim phones, but at 7.2mm, it's still thinner than the majority of phones out there. Infinix says this is the first phone to feature MediaTek's Dimensity 7100 5G chip. The Infinix Note Edge has a now-retro design with sloping, curving panels on either side of a thin frame. The... Read more ›
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Porsche made an announcement Friday. In Europe they sold more electrified Porsches last year than pure combustion-engined models, reports Electrek: in Europe, a majority (57.9%) of Porsche's deliveries were plug-ins, with 1/3 of its European sales being fully electric. For models that have no fully electric version but do have a PHEV (Cayenne and Panamera), the plug-in hybrid version dominated sales. Of particular note, the Macan sold better with an... Read more ›
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Glassnode says the push toward $96,000 was driven by leverage, while CryptoQuant warns demand remains too weak to confirm a trend reversal. Read more ›
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Solid-state batteries could store more energy and charge faster than today’s batteries, but they tend to crack and fail over time. Stanford researchers found that a nanoscale silver treatment can greatly strengthen the battery’s ceramic core. The silver helps seal tiny flaws and prevents lithium from causing further damage. This simple approach could help unlock next-generation batteries. Read more ›
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MacBook Pro availability is tightening on Apple's online store, with select configurations facing up to a two-month delivery timeframe in the United States. A few 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro configurations with an M4 Pro chip are not facing any shipping delay, but estimated delivery dates for many configurations with an M4 Max chip range from February 6 to February 24 or even later. At the extreme end, all built-to-order... Read more ›
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The senior editor at the blog Windows Central decries two serious Windows issues "that were not spotted by Microsoft during testing, and are so severe that the company has now issued an emergency fix to address the problems." Microsoft's first update for Windows 11 in 2026 has already caused two major issues that saw users unable to fully shutdown their PCs or sign-in into a device when using Remote Desktop...... Read more ›
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This week Noema magazine published a 7,000-word exploration of our modern "Mythology Of Conscious AI" written by a neuroscience professor who directs the University of Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science: The very idea of conscious AI rests on the assumption that consciousness is a matter of computation. More specifically, that implementing the right kind of computation, or information processing, is sufficient for consciousness to arise. This assumption, which philosophers call... Read more ›
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NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft reached the Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday following a 4-mile, 12-hour crawl from the Vehicle Assembly Building. The rocket is being prepped for the Artemis II mission, which will carry three Americans and one Canadian on a voyage around ... Read more ›
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Author: Aaron Crowe, Head of Revenue, APAC, Eagle Eye Discussions with retail leaders in Bangkok and Taipei reveal how AI-driven loyalty programmes are reshaping the competitive landscape. Years of Netflix recommendations and Amazon’s “customers who bought this” suggestions have trained shoppers to expect personal recognition from every business they interact with. What started as a ... Read more ›
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Indonesia and Malaysia blocked Grok over deepfake, non-consensual sexualised images. Officials cite human rights violations and user harm. Access to Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot run by Elon Musk, has been blocked in Indonesia and Malaysia after the tool was used to generate sexualised images of real people. The move comes after days of growing ... Read more ›
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India weighs smartphone rules that would require source code access. Tech firms say the plan has no global precedent, could expose sensitive data. India is weighing a set of new security rules that could change how smartphones are built, tested, and updated before they reach users. At the centre of the debate is a proposal ... Read more ›
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New technique lets AI models process information and reduce reliance on GPU memory. Chinese AI companies ‘innovate around’ US chip export restrictions. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has unveiled a new approach to building larger, more capable AI models without needing the most advanced – and expensive – computer chips that US export controls have restricted. ... Read more ›
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Meta’s Reality Labs layoffs and VR closures come as smart glasses rise. The metaverse remains, but focus is shifting away from VR. Meta’s pullback from virtual reality is not subtle. Roughly one in ten employees in its Reality Labs division are losing their jobs, and several VR game studios owned by the company are being ... Read more ›
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The Trump administration green-lights Nvidia H200 AI chip sales to China with conditions. Shipments cannot exceed half of the US domestic sales’ volume. White House’s balancing act between protecting US chipmaker revenues and limiting Beijing’s abilities. The Trump administration has approved Nvidia H200 chip exports to China, but the green light comes with significant strings ... Read more ›
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Lenovo’s CIO Playbook shows AI spending rising, while scaling remains difficult. CIOs expect returns but still face hurdles in governance and infrastructure. Across Asia Pacific, AI is no longer treated as a side project. For most enterprises, it is now a core budget and planning item. New data from the fourth edition of the Lenovo ... Read more ›
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President Trump’s new tariff targets advanced AI processors, including Nvidia H200 and AMD MI325X, under the Section 232 national security order Policy creates contradiction: H200 exports to China were approved on Tuesday, then subjected to 25% import duties on Wednesday President Trump has imposed a 25% tariff on imports of high-end artificial intelligence chips, including ... Read more ›
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SEON reported strong commercial momentum in 2025, with annual recurring revenue growing by more than 80% and customer numbers increasing by several hundred as organisations increasingly sought to unify fraud prevention and anti-money laundering (AML) operations. The company also disclosed a more than 250% year-on-year increase in API use, which it attributed to deeper integration ... Read more ›
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