Microsoft announced new Intel-powered Surface PCs for Business, Waymo Expanded to 10 new cities, and Microsoft integrated DeepSeek’s R1 model into Azure and GitHub.
OpenAI tells the Financial Times that it found evidence that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used OpenAI’s proprietary models to train its system. An anti-AI scrapping activist creates a tarpit to trap AI crawlers in an endless maze of links to nowhere. Plus Xbox’s Phil Spencer made an interesting comment about hard exclusives on the platform. And how do teens really feel about the tech industry and the dangers of the AI industry?
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
As generative AI develops much of the focus has been on the human-like quality of their output. But what does the data show regarding how AI-human interaction creating a feedback loop that impacts our biases. X has partnered with Visa to offer peer-to-peer fund transfer. Is it enough to pull people back to the platform and will existing users even use it? The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has reported on a study that shows almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN.
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov, Visa and X partner to facilitate payments for X users, and Apple patched an actively exploited zero-day affecting multiple devices.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek shakes up the tech market with its R1 Reasoning model that it claims has better performance than OpenAI’s o1 model at just 3% to 5 % of the cost. Canadian developer Daniel Supernault has launched a Kickstarter to increase development of federated social media apps. And multiple YouTube viewers say they are getting served hour-long ads on YouTube without an option to skip them.
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Is Perplexity still gunning to buy Tiktok? Kiwi Browser for Android is shutting down, WhatsApp’s latest beta shows support for multiple accounts in the iOS app. MP3