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January 28, 2025
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Gov – DTH
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.
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January 27, 2025
DeepSeek Makes Deep Impression – DTNS Live 4943
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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DeepSeek Disrupts AI – DTH
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.
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Why Is DeepSeek So Popular? – DTNS 4943
Plus, the story behind YouTube’s hour-long unskippable ads.
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China’s DeepSeek Tops iPhone Downloads and Spurs AI Selloff – Bloomberg
DeepSeek FAQ – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
The Short Case for Nvidia Stock – YouTube Transcript Optimizer
DeepSeek Mania Shakes AI Industry to Its Core – 404 Media
Steven Sinofsky on X: “DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here’s Why (History tells us)”
What to Know About China’s DeepSeek AI – WSJ
DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it’s limiting registrations – CNBC
WhatsApp could soon let iOS users have multiple accounts on one device – Engadget
Tesla, BYD to launch new SUVs to boost Japan’s EV market – Tech in Asia
The next Nothing phone, possibly the Phone (3), has its official launch date – PhoneArena
Trump discussing TikTok purchase with multiple people, decision in 30 days – Reuters
White House in talks Oracle U.S. investors TikTok – CNBC
Perplexity TikTok revised merger proposal – CNBC
Chinese robot maker UBTech eyes mass production of industrial humanoids by year end – Yahoo Tech
Douyin expands services with in-app ride-hailing feature – Tech in Asia
January 25, 2025
El presidente Trump promueve criptomonedas – NTX 397
Operadores Móviles buscan certeza, Trump promueve las criptomonedas y Netflix incrementa precios.
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-Tensión entre OpenAI y Microsof
-Muestran falla de seguridad de Subaru
-Netflix incrementará precios
-Trump firma orden para promover criptodivisas
Análisis: La volatilidad de las criptos al servicio del poder.
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January 24, 2025
Swinging Telegram – DTNS Live 4942
Scientists from Tufts University have accidentally made a sticky web-like substance not unlike what Spider-man would use. The next generation of Apple’s Car Play, up until yesterday or so, was supposed to come out in 2024. What’s going on with the update and should 3rd party car infotainment systems be put on notice? Plus its Friday and time to test everyone’s knowledge of Stargate. And how are social networks differ around the globe.
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How the TikTok Court Decision Changed Free Speech Law – DTNS 4942
Plus, OpenAI gets into the agent game, and how India is stepping up its manufacturing game, but CHina will be harder to beat than you might already think.
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OpenAI Releases AI Agent That Helps Book Flights, Order Food For Users – Bloomberg
OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that can operate your computer – Ars Technica
OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomously | TechCrunch
langgraph/examples/web-navigation/web_voyager.ipynb at main · langchain-ai/langgraph · GitHub
Jarvis AI 2 | Gemini API Developer Competition | Google AI for Developers
Tata acquires 60% stake in Apple partner Pegatron’s India unit | TechCrunch
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani Plans World’s Biggest Data Center in India’s Gujarat – Bloomberg
India to launch first domestic chip this year | Tech in Asia
Sony is halting production of recordable Blu-ray, MiniDiscs and MiniDV cassettes – Engadget
After 18 years, Sony’s recordable Blu-ray media production draws to a close | Tom’s Hardware
Science Has Spun Spider-Man’s Web-Slinging Into Reality | WIRED
Google agrees to crack down on fake reviews for UK businesses | The Verge
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will have 1.3M GPUs for AI by year-end | TechCrunch
Oracle, Apple, Google Diverge on Whether to Keep Serving TikTok | Bloomberg
Apple Says Several Car Makers Still Plan to Support Next-Generation CarPlay | MacRumors
Threads rolls out a post scheduler, ‘markup’ feature, and more | TechCrunch
Meta’s Threads to Show Ads for the First Time in US, Japan | Bloomberg
China’s overlapping tech-industrial ecosystems | High Capacity
US users dumped RedNote after Trump paused the TikTok ban | TechCrunch
The Supreme Court’s TikTok ruling is an ominous turn for online speech | The Verge
Meta Plans To Invest $60 To $65 Billion Into AI Infrastructure – DTH
Meta plans to invest $60 to $65 billion into AI infrastructure this year, President Trump signed an executive order to advance crypto and potentially develop a national stockpile, and the EU is conducting its first social media stress test.
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January 23, 2025
An OpenAI Relationship – DTNS Live 4941
OpenAI, Softbank, and Oracle announced Stargate, a $500 billion investment initiative into building data centers for AI in the US. Sony will end Blu-ray production next month. Security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in a Subaru web portal that let them take over car controls and track driver location data. And OpenAI announced Thursday it’s launching a “research preview” of Operator.
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Google is acquiring HTC Engineers for Android XR – DTNS 4941
How Android XR could benefit from HTC brain drain, a risky Cloudflare CDN security flaw, Instagram teen accounts come to South Korea, and Jason takes you behind the stage of Galaxy Unpacked.
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 review: a new king of 4K is here
Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X
Instagram launches teen accounts for safety in South Korea
Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking Millions of Cars
Apple won’t return TikTok to the App Store until it’s sold to a U.S. buyer
Cloudflare CDN flaw leaks user location data, even through secure chat apps
Apple and Google’s massive mobile empires face dual UK antitrust probes
2025 State of Mobile: Consumers’ $150 Billion Spent on Mobile Highlights Another Record-Setting Year
