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Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download

DeepSeek R1 is free to run locally and modify, and it matches OpenAI's o1 in several benchmarks. Credit: Wong Yu Liang On Monday, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released its new R1 model family under an open MIT...

Trump issues flurry of orders on TikTok, DOGE, social media, AI, and energy

A roundup of executive orders issued by Trump after his second inauguration. US President Donald...

Report: Apple Mail is getting automatic categories on iPadOS and iPadOS

It's pretty smart, but it doesn't require Apple Intelligence. Credit: Apple A report from Mark Gurman in...

TikTok is mostly restored after Trump pledges an order and half US ownership

Users are in, new downloads are paused, and Trump's order will face scrutiny. Some users,...

Elon Musk complains about China’s ban on X

"Something needs to change," he posted on X. Credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto Elon Musk has...

Novo Nordisk sells hit weight-loss drug in China—at fraction of US price

As US struggles to afford GLP-1 drugs, the rest of the world sees much lower prices. Wegovy is an injectable prescription weight-loss medicine that has...

Microsoft finally releases generic install ISOs for the Arm version of Windows

Generic install media brings Arm PCs closer to feeling like any old x86 PC. Credit: Microsoft For some PC buyers, doing a clean install of Windows...

EU fines Meta €800 million for breakEUing law with Marketplace

EU: Tying the free Facebook Marketplace to the social network undermines rivals. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Meta has been fined nearly 800 million euros ($844.6...

Space policy is about to get pretty wild, y’all

Saddle up, space cowboys. It may get bumpy for a while. President Donald Trump steps on the stage at Kennedy Space Center after the successful...

Discord terrorist known as “Rabid” gets 30 years for preying on kids

FBI considers 764 terror network a top threat to kids online. Credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto A Michigan man who ran chat rooms and Discord servers...

Meta beats suit over tool that lets Facebook users unfollow everything

The tool will likely be released anyway, testing Meta’s litigiousness. Credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto Meta has defeated a lawsuit—for now—that attempted to invoke Section 230 protections...

Elon Musk turns X’s block button into a “glorified mute button”

X change lets blocked users see posts made by the people who blocked them. Credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto X, formerly Twitter, is now letting blocked...

Charger recall spells more bad news for Humane’s maligned AI Pin

Humane first reported overheating problems with the portable charger in June. Humane's AI Pin. Credit: Humane Humane’s AI Pin was already struggling to take off, but the...

Microsoft delays rollout of the Windows 11 Recall feature yet again

Microsoft works to make Recall "secure and trusted" after security complaints. The Recall feature provides a timeline of screenshots and a searchable database of text,...

Over 500 Amazon workers decry “non-data-driven” logic for 5-day RTO policy

“I used to be proud of my work and excited about my future here. I don't feel that anymore." An Amazon corporate office building in...

Pixel phones are getting an actual weather app in 2024, with a bit of AI

Pixel 6 and newer can try out an app that has AI summaries, but no frog. Credit: Google Google's stated mission is to "organize the world’s information and...

SpaceX has caught a massive rocket. So what’s next?

Spoiler alert: The company still has a massive amount of work to do to reach the Moon. Final phases of Starship's return to its launch...

Apple refreshes MacBook Pro lineup with M4 chips, introduces the M4 Max

More memory and better display support make the $1,599 Pro more appealing. Apple is sticking so closely to the design of the M3 MacBook Pros...

Amazon exec tells employees to work elsewhere if they dislike RTO policy

Using RTO to push quitting could result in an "array of legal consequences." Palo Alto, CA, USA - Feb 18, 2020: The Amazon logo seen...
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