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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says market got it wrong about DeepSeek’s impact

Sarah Taylor — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:44:04 +0000

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said the market got it wrong when it comes to DeepSeek’s technological advancements and its potential to negatively impact the chipmaker’s business. Instead, Huang called DeepSeek’s R1 open source reasoning model “incredibly exciting” while speaking with Alex Bouzari, CEO of DataDirect Networks, in a pre-recorded interview that was released […]

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iOS 18.4 will bring Apple Intelligence-powered ‘Priority Notifications’

Sarah Taylor — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:43:54 +0000

Apple on Friday released its first developer beta for iOS 18.4, which adds a new “Priority Notifications” feature, powered by Apple Intelligence. The addition aims to help users manage their notifications by prioritizing important alerts and minimizing distractions from less important ones. These priority notifications are displayed in a separate section on the phone’s Lock […]

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Brian Armstrong says Coinbase spent $50M fighting SEC lawsuit — and beat it

Sarah Taylor — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:43:52 +0000

Coinbase on Friday said the SEC has agreed to drop the lawsuit against the company with prejudice, meaning it cannot be filed again. The move, which is still subject to the approval of the SEC’s Commissioners, is yet another signal that the Trump administration plans to be more friendly to crypto than the SEC was […]

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Court filings show Meta staffers discussed using copyrighted content for AI training

Sarah Taylor — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:43:49 +0000

For years, Meta employees have internally discussed using copyrighted works obtained through legally questionable means to train the company’s AI models, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday. The documents were submitted by plaintiffs in the case Kadrey v. Meta, one of many AI copyright disputes slowly winding through the U.S. court system. The defendant, […]

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Meta, X approved ads containing violent anti-Muslim, antisemitic hate speech ahead of German election, study finds

Sarah Taylor — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:43:43 +0000

Social media giants Meta and X approved ads targeting users in Germany with violent anti-Muslim and anti-Jew hate speech in the run-up to the country’s federal elections, according to new research from Eko, a corporate responsibility nonprofit campaign group. The group’s researchers tested whether the two platforms’ ad review systems would approve or reject submissions […]

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Explore the online world of Apple TV’s ‘Severance’

Sarah Taylor — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:43:36 +0000

Apple has been steadily working to expand the world of the Apple TV+ series “Severance,” through online materials, e-books, podcasts, and other content – and so have its fans. Taking advantage of its platform power, the Cupertino tech giant has been able to easily distribute supplemental material that adds to the show’s storytelling abilities, offering […]

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Trump administration reportedly shutting down federal EV chargers nationwide

Sarah Taylor — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:43:32 +0000

The General Services Administration, the agency that manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down its entire network of electric vehicle chargers, according to a report in The Verge. The GSA reportedly operates a network of hundreds of EV chargers with a total of 8,000 plugs that can be used to […]

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The fallout from HP’s Humane acquisition

Sarah Taylor — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:43:28 +0000

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at the internal chaos surrounding HP’s $116 million acquisition of AI Pin maker Humane; Mira Murati’s new AI venture coming out of stealth; Duolingo killing its iconic owl mascot with a Cybertruck; and more! Let’s get into it. Humane’s AI pin is dead. The hardware […]

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The pain of discontinued items, and the thrill of finding them online

Sarah Taylor — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:43:24 +0000

We’ve all been there. A favorite item is suddenly unavailable for purchase. Couldn’t the manufacturer have given you advance warning? Whether owing to low sales, changing habits, production costs, or even because something is a little wrong with your favorite product (shh), discontinued items are part of life. In a weekend piece, the New York […]

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How I Podcast: Summer Album / Winter Album’s Jody Avirgan

Sarah Taylor — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:43:19 +0000

The beauty of podcasting is that anyone can do it. It’s a rare medium that’s nearly as easy to make as it is to consume. And as such, no two people do it exactly the same way. There are a wealth of hardware and software solutions open to potential podcasters, so setups run the gamut […]

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