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January 2025

30 posts

Apple Kills Augmented-Reality Glasses

Apple apparently no longer sees the future through augmented reality-tinted glasses. The company is ditching a project to build AR lenses that would have competed with Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, putting the company at risk of falling far behind its rivals following the commercial failure of the Apple Vision Pro headset Gizmodo reported. The glasses project, codenamed N107, was never

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DeepSeek Security Lapses

DeepSeek, the AI platform that’s taken the world by storm, is now under fire for a significant security lapse. Researchers at Wiz discovered that DeepSeek left a critical database exposed, potentially compromising over a million records, including user data, API keys, and system logs. While there's no evidence of malicious access, the ease of discovery raises serious concerns. This isn’t

Amazon Raises Its Spending On Elon Musk’s X

Amazon is ramping up ad spending on ElonMusk’s X, according to people familiar with the situation,  a major shift after pulling much of its advertising more than a year ago, when many brands had concerns about hate speech on the platform, The Wall Street Journal reported. Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy was involved in the decision, which could result in

Meta Platforms Soar To Record Bolstering Zuckerberg’s Spending Spree

Meta Platforms posted record revenue in the fourth quarter, aided by artificial-intelligence improvements to its ads business, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Facebook and Instagram parent reported a 21% increase in sales and $20.8 billion in net income, both ahead of analyst expectations. Meta estimated that revenue growth would slow in the January-to-March quarter, reaching 8% to 15%, a

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Gov Built For Government Use

OpenAI on Tuesday announced its biggest product launch since its enterprise rollout. It’s called ChatGPT Gov and was built specifically for U.S. government use. CNBC reported. The Microsoft-backed company bills the new platform as a step beyond ChatGPT Enterprise as far as security. It allows government agencies, as customers, to feed “non-public, sensitive information” into OpenAI’s models while operating within

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DeepSeek 10 Reason To Not Use it

In today’s episode, we dive into the groundbreaking rise of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that’s shaking up the industry. With its latest release, the DeepSeek-R1 model, this free AI chatbot rivals ChatGPT in performance yet operates at a fraction of the cost. How did DeepSeek match OpenAI’s cutting-edge models while spending just 3% of the training budget? What makes

White House In Talks To Have Oracle And U.S. Investors Take Over TikTok

The Trump administration is working on a plan to save TikTok that involves tapping software company Oracle and a group of outside investors to effectively take control of the app’s global operations, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks, NPR reported. Under the deal now being negotiated by the White House, TikTok’s China-based owner ByteDance would retain

Trump’s Crypto Venture Divides The Industry He Aims To Support

Dressed in ball gowns, tuxedos and “Make Bitcoin Great Again” baseball caps, a crowd of some of the country’s most powerful cryptocurrency executives gathered a few blocks from the White House for a lavish party three days before President Trump’s inauguration, toasting an incoming administration that had vowed to promote the industry’s interests, The New York Times reported. But crypto

Meta To Spend Up To $65 Billion This Year To Power Goals, Zuckerberg Says

Meta Platforms plans to spend as much as $65 billion this year to expand its AI infrastructure, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday, aiming to bolster the company’s position against rivals OpenAI and Google in the race to dominate the technology., Reuters reported. As part of the investment, Meta will ramp up hiring for artificial intelligence roles and build a

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OpenAI’s Operator: AI Agent Automates Web Tasks

OpenAI unveils "Operator," an AI agent in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users in the U.S. This browser-based tool automates tasks like filling forms, ordering groceries, and planning trips by interacting with web interfaces. It combines GPT-4 vision and reasoning, can self-correct, and seeks user approval for sensitive actions. Thinking of buying a Starlink? Use my link to support the

OpenAI Releases A “Research Review” Of Its Operator AI Agent

The Verge reported: OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator the can “go into the web to perform tasks for you,” according to a blog post. “Using its own browser, it can look at a webpage and interact with it by typing, clicking, and scrolling,” OpenAI says. It’s launching first in the US for subscribers of OpenAI’s says. It’s launching first in the US for subscribers of OpenAI’s $200 per month ChatGPT Pro Tier.

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