DeepSeek says it used Nvidia H800 chips, available in China until October 2023, to train R1, suggesting future models could be hampered by US export controls — - Nvidia calls R1 an ‘excellent’ advance that meets US limits — Trump says release should be a ‘wake-up call’ for US companies
EU appeals hearing: Google accuses the EC of making “grave errors” in its Android investigation that led to a record €4.3B fine; EU lawyers defended the case — - EU's top court weighs in on bloc's biggest ever antitrust fine — Lower-tier court earlier cut fine down to €4.1 billion
SAP reports Q4 cloud revenue up 27% YoY to €4.71B, above €4.68B est., driven by AI demand, names a suite of new executives, and plans to simplify its strategy — - Cloud revenue grew 27% last quarter from a year earlier — The company named new marketing, technology leadership
How DeepSeek outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost: open-source approach, pure reinforcement learning, not supervised fine-tuning, and building on DeepSeek-R1-Zero — DeepSeek R1's Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what's required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance.
A look at the surveillance tech that could power Trump's immigration crackdown; a review of 15K+ contracts shows ICE and USCIS spent $7.8B on tech since 2020 — Border enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people.
US tech stocks fell sharply pre-market over DeepSeek concerns, with NVDA down 8%+ and META and MSFT down 3%; ASML fell 9%+; Japanese chip companies also dropped — Start-up's model raises questions about need for huge western hardware investment — Tech stocks fell sharply on Monday …
A look at the growing prevalence of LLM-written posts that have been backdated and attributed to human authors on Physics Forums, which was founded in 2001 — What Internet Will Look Like in the Future — cripes does anybody remember Google People — Does anybody remember PhysicsForums?
Trump denies talks with Oracle about a TikTok deal, says “I have spoken to many people about TikTok” and expects a decision in the next 30 days — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was in talks with multiple people over buying TikTok and would likely have a decision …
Chinese esports companies, including Tencent and Huya, face growth challenges in China, the world's biggest esports market; the industry earned ~$3.8B in 2024 — BEIJING — One chilly Saturday evening late last year, 33,000 people gathered at Beijing Workers' Stadium to watch …
Major Chinese social media apps have mastered the “shoppertainment” experience, blending social media with shopping, that Western competitors struggle to match — Addictive algorithms fuse social networking with shopping and entertainment. — In the days leading …
Some crypto executives worry Trump's memecoin undercut the industry's credibility at the very moment crypto is seeking a prominent place in mainstream finance — The president's promotion of a speculative digital coin left some crypto investors feeling blindsided, while others saw it as a gimmick …
Sources: people affiliated with DOGE have met with representatives of various public blockchains as they explore using a blockchain to track federal spending — - Conversations said to be held with multiple public blockchains — The technology may be used to track government spending
Hands-on with the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses live translation feature: adept at translating a basic conversation, but struggles with slang and faster speech — I was in middle school the last time I took a Spanish class. I remember enough for toddler talk — phrases like …
Supporters and skeptics of the TikTok ban in Congress say Trump's US ownership proposal bewilders them, claiming it doesn't comply with the divest-or-ban law — Members of Congress are declaring themselves bewildered by Donald Trump's latest proposal to save TikTok by brokering a joint-ownership deal.
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 — - X, Google, Snap and LinkedIn to be tested on disinformation — EU is working to combat false information around elections
Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal : Chinese video game giant NetEase reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$4B and net profit down 29% to ~$903...
