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The chair of the U.S. House Committee on China said Nvidia’s “extensive technical support” of Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek helped the startup develop “frontier” AI models despite export controls that limited its access to Nvidia’s most advanced hardware, according to a letter ...
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A new study by Google suggests that advanced reasoning models achieve high performance by simulating multi-agent-like debates involving diverse perspectives, personality traits, and domain expertise.Their experiments demonstrate that this internal debate, which they dub “society of thought,” significantly improves model performance in complex reasoning and planning tasks. The researchers found that leading reasoning models such as DeepSeek-R1 and QwQ-32B, which are trained via reinforcement learning (RL), i Read more ›
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Minnesotans stayed home from work and took to the streets to protest ICE on Jan. 23. Now, activists want to take it nationwide. Read more ›
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We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service. At Vox, our mission is to help everyone access essential information that empowers them. Support our journalism by becoming a member today. In recent weeks, Minnesota has borne the brunt of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration strategy, with federal officials detaining thousands of […] Read more ›
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WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere. Read more ›
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There's never a shortage of weird tech debuting at CES every year. A new company called Tomorrow Doesn't Matter, or TDM, announced a peculiar pair of headphones at the show earlier this month with a feature no one has tried before. The Neo headphones can be rolled up like a hedgehog which turns them into […] Read more ›
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Prosecutors say Mark Anderson falsely said he was an FBI agent with a court order to free Luigi Mangioni, accused of killing the UnitedHealthcare CEO. Read more ›
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A Russian cargo vessel loitering near transatlantic data cables was chased away by the Royal Navy. Read more ›
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A foldable phone isn’t for the faint of heart. They’re generally heavier, pricier, and have less capable cameras than a standard slab-style phone. They’re also still not as durable as regular smartphones, though they’re not nearly as fragile as they once were. In fact, thanks to Google, we finally have a foldable phone we can […] Read more ›
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The record average purchase price of about $9,800 was set in 2024, when the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers in Las Vegas. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: U.S. life expectancy rose to a record high of 79 years in 2024, an increase of six months from the previous year, reflecting a sharp decline in deaths from COVID-19 and drug overdoses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. According to a report from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, life expectancy improved for both men and women across... Read more ›
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One Battle After Another, The Smashing Machine, and Sinners are just a few of the movies you should be watching on HBO Max this month. Read more ›
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The Internet Archive has often been a valuable resource for journalists, from it's finding records of deleted tweets or providing academic texts for background research. However, the advent of AI has created a new tension between the parties. A few major publications have begun blocking the nonprofit digital library's access to their content based on concerns that AI companies' bots are using the Internet Archive's collections to indirectly scrape their... Read more ›
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Settlement comes more than 6 years after Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn's ordeal began. Read more ›
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Windows is in a weird spot. In its 40-year history, the operating system has weathered its fair share of missteps, but Windows 11 is testing the patience of its users in new ways. Persistent bugs, performance issues, intrusive prompts, ads, and bloatware have eroded the core Windows experience. Early system requirement decisions have also damaged […] Read more ›
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Prime Video's next comic target is Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky's supernaturally weird love story. Read more ›
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SoftBank is in talks to invest an additional $30 billion in OpenAI, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. An investment of that size would add to its more than $30 billion investment in the ChatGPT maker, likely cementing its role as the biggest shareholder. The talks are part of an ... Read more ›
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OpenAI recently updated its policy for handling whistleblower complaints, following concerns about AI startups ignoring what are standard rules applying to all companies. It follows similar steps from Anthropic and could pressure other AI companies to follow suit. Federal government rules mandate that companies cannot retaliate against employees who report wrongdoing. Legislation governing AI, including the E.U. AI Act and California’s SB 53, has specifically mandated the protections for AI... Read more ›
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Anthropic has hiked its revenue forecasts for the next several years, projecting that sales will quadruple this year to as much as $18 billion and will hit $55 billion next year. It is aiming to shrink the revenue gap with OpenAI, its older archrival. The revenue projections, which haven’t previously been reported, are significantly higher than the ones Anthropic made last summer. But expenses, including those from training and running... Read more ›
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As more tech executives weigh in on the weekend’s fatal shooting by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff this week that he believes “ICE is going too far,” according to a copy of the internal memo published by the New York Times’ DealBook. “There is a big ... Read more ›
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Private equity firms are struggling to sell the software companies they acquired in a buying frenzy in 2021 and 2022, even though they enjoyed a rebound in sales for such companies last year. The lack of deals could force more PE firms to sell their holdings at a lower price, or even at a discount to the original deal price. Sales did pick up last year but not enough to... Read more ›
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China is letting AI and semiconductor startups go public at a furious pace. Since December, two developers of large language models and four designers of graphics processing units have listed on stock exchanges in Hong Kong and Shanghai, raising a total of over $4 billion. At least two more are in the pipeline. Kunlunxin, the chip arm of Baidu, is seeking to raise up to $2 billion in Hong Kong,... Read more ›
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In November, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, and his wife, Anna, enjoyed a glitzy night out in Washington: a White House state dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The Brockmans were among a broad contingent of tech elite in attendance at the fete, hosted by President Donald Trump. Soon after the event, the Brockmans posted pictures of themselves posing with Elon Musk, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and his... Read more ›
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The wave of so-called AI neolabs seeking breakthroughs they think incumbents like OpenAI will miss continues to rise. Core Automation, an AI startup founded by former senior OpenAI researcher Jerry Tworek in recent weeks, aims to raise between $500 million and $1 billion in funding, according to a person who has spoken with the company. He wants to develop AI models using methods that major firms such as OpenAI and... Read more ›
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Anthropic, in December, projected to generate as much as $18 billion this year, about 20% more than its summer forecast, and $55 billion next year. The company expects to generate as much as $148 billion in 2029 in its most optimistic projections– about $3 billion more than what OpenAI projected ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter revenue of $59.8 billion, up 24% from a year earlier, exceeding its own forecasts of $56 billion to $59 billion. The company also outlined ambitious spending plans for 2026, forecasting capital expenditures of $115 billion to $135 billion, up ... Read more ›
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