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Why DeepSeek’s new AI model thinks it’s ChatGPT Earlier this week, DeepSeek, a well-funded Chinese AI lab, released an “open” AI model that outperforms many competitors on popular benchmarks. model, Deep Sec V3large but powerful, handles text tasks like programming and writing articles with ease. He also seems to think so ChatGPT. Supports on X […]

Trends shaping electric vehicles, robotaxis and electric aviation in 2024 If there’s one phrase that captures the mood and theme of 2024 – at least in the transportation sector – it’s “business strike.” Legacy automakers have changed direction on their strategy of all-electric vehicles or go bankrupt, startups have pivoted, and some venture capital firms

Do Kwon, co-founder of Terraform Labs, will face fraud charges in the United States Do Kwon, co-founder of collapsed cryptocurrency startup Terraform Labs, will be extradited from Montenegro to the United States to face federal fraud charges, for the first time. I mentioned By Bloomberg. Kwon faces charges in both the United States and South

A non-profit group is joining Elon Musk’s efforts to prevent OpenAI from becoming profitable Encode, the nonprofit that co-sponsored California Ominous SB 1047 AI Safety Legislation has requested permission to file an amicus curiae brief in support of Elon Musk Judicial order To stop OpenAI from becoming a for-profit company. In a Proposed summary An

Bench is shutting down, leaving thousands of businesses without access to accounting and tax documents Bench, a Canadian-based accounting startup that provides software as a service to small and medium-sized businesses, has abruptly shut down, according to a notice posted on Its website. “We regret to inform you that as of December 27, 2024, the

Cyberhaven says it was hacked to deploy a malicious update to its Chrome extension Data loss prevention startup Cyberhaven says hackers deployed a malicious update to their Chrome extension that was able to steal customers’ passwords and session tokens, according to an email sent to affected customers, who may have been victims of this suspected

Do you want a cheap electric car? Hertz distributes discounts to renters Hertz recently contacted people who are in the middle of leasing electric cars to offer them the option of buying the car instead of returning it, according to reports. Edge. And the deals are pretty great, according to some renters who shared the

Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition for AGI: reporting Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup’s profits, according to a new report from Information. By this definition, OpenAI is still many years away from achieving this. The two companies reportedly signed an agreement

DeepSeek’s new AI model appears to be one of the best “open” contenders yet A Chinese laboratory has created what appears to be one of the most powerful “open” AI models to date. model, Deep Sec V3It was developed by artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek and released on Wednesday under a permissive license that allows developers

ChatGPT and Sora dropped for the second time this month The ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI developer API was down on Thursday for more than four hours. OpenAI says it began experiencing a major outage at 11am PT, but now says its services are slowly coming back online as of 3:16pm PT. Frequent users of ChatGPT