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Former Google, Meta leaders launch Palona AI, bringing personalized, emotive customer agents to non-techie enterprises
Palona’s approach suggests that customer relationships don’t have to be sacrificed for automation—instead, AI can enhance personalization.VentureBeat - 1h -
Elon Musk’s Next Target: Government Buildings
The tech billionaire and top Trump ally visited the General Services Administration, which appears to be a key part of his crusade to cut the cost of government buildings.The New York Times - 2h -
Mistral Small 3 brings open-source AI to the masses — smaller, faster and cheaper
French AI startup Mistral unveils a breakthrough 24B parameter language model that matches the performance of models three times its size, challenging tech giants with faster speeds and lower ...VentureBeat - 5h -
Riffusion’s free AI music platform could be the Spotify of the future
Riffusion launches a free AI music generation platform that creates original songs from text and audio prompts, challenging tech giants with personalized learning features and backing from The ...VentureBeat - 8h -
These Yale and Berkeley dropouts just raised $2 million to build an AI assistant that could rival OpenAI
Y Combinator-backed startup Martin AI secures $2M seed funding to challenge Siri and Google with its innovative personal AI assistant, built by 19-year-old founders to revolutionize how consumers ...VentureBeat - 9h -
Ai2 releases Tülu 3, a fully open-source model that bests DeepSeek v3, GPT-4o with novel post-training approach
DeepSeek-R1 released model code and pre-trained weights but not training data. Ai2 is taking a different approach to be more open.VentureBeat - 9h -
Ex-Google, Apple engineers launch unconditionally open source Oumi AI platform that could help to build the next DeepSeek
Existing open-source AI approaches are still not entirely open, which is a challenge that former Google and Apple engineers alongside a coalition of 13 universities are looking to solve.VentureBeat - 1d -
Bitcoin miners slump after DeepSeek raises questions about AI power usage. What’s next.
A weekly look at the most important news and moves in crypto, and what’s on the horizon in digital assets.MarketWatch - 1d -
DeepSeek marks 'turning point' for global AI race: Former Google CEO
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday that the rise of DeepSeek, the Chinese startup behind a new artificial intelligence (AI) model taking the internet by storm, marks a “turning point” ...The Hill - 1d -
DeepSeek’s ‘aha moment’ creates new way to build powerful AI with less money
Chinese artificial intelligence group’s use of ‘reinforcement learning’ and ‘small language models’ leads to breakthroughsFinancial Times - 1d -
Jack Dorsey is back with Goose, a new, ultra-simple open-source AI agent-building platform from his startup Block
Goose’s capabilities are enhanced through Block’s collaboration with Anthropic, a leading AI safety and research company.VentureBeat - 2d -
The stock market ‘is telling us that cheap, open-source AI is a good thing’ after DeepSeek rout
Investors aren’t ignoring the upsides of cheaper AI models despite Monday’s DeepSeek-inspired stock-market panic.MarketWatch - 2d -
DeepSeek shows AI's centre of power could shift away from US
The app's strong debut has shaken beliefs that the US would remain the unchallenged global AI superpower, writes the BBC's Marc Cieslak.BBC News - 2d -
DeepSeek-R1 is a boon for enterprises — making AI apps cheaper, easier to build, and more innovative
AI labs might be in panic mode, but enterprises are here to reap the rewards of the effects caused by DeepSeek R1.VentureBeat - 3d -
DeepSeek defies America’s AI supremacy
A Chinese advance tests the assumptions behind lofty US tech valuationsFinancial Times - 3d -
How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With OpenAI and Google
The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.The New York Times - 3d -
Scale AI CEO says China has quickly caught the U.S. with the DeepSeek open-source model
Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, said Thursday that the AI race between the U.S. and China is an "AI war."CNBC - Jan. 23 -
Pipeshift cuts GPU usage for AI inferences 75% with modular interface engine
Pipeshift has a Lego-like system that allows teams to configure the right inference stack for their AI workloads, without extensive engineering.VentureBeat - Jan. 23 -
Apple and Google's massive mobile empires face dual UK antitrust probes
Britain's competition regulator launched an investigation into Apple and Google's mobile ecosystems to assess whether they're in breach of strict new tech laws.CNBC - Jan. 23 -
Apple and Google investigated by UK regulator over mobile platforms
CMA probe comes days after its chair was forced out by government in drive for economic growthFinancial Times - Jan. 23 -
The U.K. has new powers vs. tech giants. It’s probing Apple and Google.
The U.K. competition regulator on Thursday said it’s using new powers to investigate Apple and Google’s mobile ecosystems.MarketWatch - Jan. 23 -
Samsung launches S25 smartphone with boosted AI as Apple battle heats up
Samsung launched the S25 series which comes in three variants — the S25, S25+ and the S25 Ultra.CNBC - Jan. 22 -
This New AI Search Engine Has a Gimmick: Humans Answering Questions
A new AI-powered search engine called Pearl is launching today, with an unusual pitch: It promises to connect you with an actual human expert if the AI answer sucks. WIRED gave it a spin.Wired - Jan. 22 -
Perplexity launches Sonar API, taking aim at Google and OpenAI with real-time AI search
Perplexity's Sonar is a real-time AI search API challenging Google and OpenAI with disruptive pricing and superior performance.VentureBeat - Jan. 21 -
4 Things Apple Maps Does Better Than Google Maps
Apple’s platform for maps and directions, the perpetual runner-up to Google Maps, has improved markedly over the past few years. Here are the ways it currently bests its rival.Wired - Jan. 21 -
Open-source DeepSeek-R1 uses pure reinforcement learning to match OpenAI o1 — at 95% less cost
The company developed DeepSeek-R1 by using pure reinforcement learning on top of DeepSeek-V3-Base, and matched or beat o1 on some benchmarks.VentureBeat - Jan. 20 -
How to Use Parental Controls in Your Google, Apple, and Microsoft Accounts
The three biggest tech companies all offer a wealth of options to limit screen time, find lost devices, and more.Wired - Jan. 20 -
Apple, Google remove TikTok from stores as app halts service in U.S.
Apple and Google have removed TikTok from their respective app stores as U.S. operations shut down.CNBC - Jan. 19 -
What will happen to TikTok on Apple and Google's app store on Sunday?
With President-elect Trump adding uncertainty around whether a TikTok ban will go into effect, the focus is now turning to companies like Google and AppleABC News - Jan. 17 -
Bird feathers, blood found in both engines of crashed jet in South Korea, source says
Investigators found bird feathers and blood in both engines of the Jeju Air 089590NBC News - Jan. 17 -
Brooklyn trio raises $10 million for startup that wants to help open-source developers get paid
Out of the old Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, a trio of techies has raised $10 million for Merit Systems to focus on fixing an open-source problem.CNBC - Jan. 16 -
TikTok and Google CEOs to attend Trump inauguration, sources say
The news comes as a law banning TikTok, which is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, is set to go into effect on Jan. 19.CBS News - Jan. 16 -
New AI tool for fighting health insurance denials could save hospitals billions, and help patients
Waystar announced a new generative AI feature that aims to help hospitals quickly fight insurance denials.CNBC - Jan. 13 -
China building new mobile piers that could help possible Taiwan invasion
Satellite images reveal barge-like vessels that could help transport tanks and artillery over coastal mudflatsFinancial Times - Jan. 13 -
US leadership in AI requires open-source diplomacy
Rather than treating open models as a threat, the new administration should embrace them as an opportunity.The Hill - Jan. 12 -
Monster Hunter Wilds Is Getting Another Cross-Platform Beta Next Month
Next month, Capcom will bring Monster Hunter Wilds to players just over seven years since the last mainline game, Monster Hunter: World , debuted in 2018. There was an open beta for players in ...GameSpot - Jan. 8 -
Lionel Messi's MLS move opens doors for others: Neymar, Kevin De Bruyne and big names who could join next
MLS continues to be an attractive option for plenty of the world's best stars, but who are the big names that could join?CBS Sports - Jan. 8 -
Agentic AI can help you to get a new software engineering job in 2025
Thanks to a widening skills shortage, software engineers don’t generally have to look too far for a new role on better money.VentureBeat - Jan. 7 -
Nvidia launches Cosmos World Foundation Model platform to accelerate physical AI
Nvidia launched its Cosmos World Foundation Model platform to accelerate physical AI development.VentureBeat - Jan. 7 -
ElliQ maker Intuition Robotics launches AI system to support caregivers who help older adults
Intuition Robotics, creators of the award-winning ElliQ AI companion robot, announced a new ElliQ solution to help caregivers.VentureBeat - Jan. 6