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Yes, Minister character is government’s new AI assistant

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Techme101

A new suite of AI tools for civil servants are named ‘Humphrey’ after the scheming character.

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President Trump repeals Biden’s AI executive order

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Techme101

During his first day in office, President Donald Trump revoked a 2023 executive order signed by former President Joe Biden that sought to reduce the potential risks AI poses to consumers, workers, and national security. Biden’s executive order directed the … Continue reading →

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UK to unveil ‘Humphrey’ assistant for civil servants with other AI plans to cut bureaucracy

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Techme101

A week after the U.K. government announced a sweeping plan to make big investments into AI, it’s laying out more details around how this will take shape in the public sector. On the agenda: AI assistants to speed up public … Continue reading →

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Trump’s crypto-frenzied inauguration weekend makes first family billions of dollars richer

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Techme101

Donald Trump launched a meme coin Friday night, while many of his backers were partying at the Crypto Ball in Washington, D.C.

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OpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing release

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI may be close to releasing an AI tool that can take control of your PC and perform actions on your behalf. Tibor Blaho, a software engineer with a reputation for accurately leaking upcoming AI products, claims to have uncovered … Continue reading →

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Friend delays shipments of its AI companion pendant

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Techme101

Friend, a startup creating a $99, AI-powered necklace designed to be treated as a digital companion, has delayed its first batch of shipments until Q3. Friend had planned to ship devices to pre-order customers in Q1. But according to co-founder … Continue reading →

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At the Microsoft Excel World Championship, selfies and a ‘hype’ tunnel

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Techme101

An arena. A hype tunnel, the kind through which NBA players typically streak. A competitor dressed in a jersey patterned with a six-pack abs. In a new piece, the New York Times takes readers to an event that organizers call … Continue reading →

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Flipboard’s new app Surf adds its own video feed, too

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Techme101

After the TikTok ban went into effect on Sunday, social network Bluesky launched a custom feed for videos on its platform. Now, Flipboard’s newest app, Surf, which is dedicated to browsing the open social web and decentralized services like Mastodon … Continue reading →

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DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Techme101

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released an open version of DeepSeek-R1, its so-called reasoning model, that it claims performs as well as OpenAI’s o1 on certain AI benchmarks. R1 is available from the AI dev platform Hugging Face under an … Continue reading →

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RedNote, Flip, Clapper and Likee claim the top of the App Store as TikTok comes back online

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Techme101

TikTok may be back, but that hasn’t prevented other Chinese competitors from gaining users. In the lead up to a ban on TikTok — which kicked off Sunday and lasted a day — a number of other video apps rose … Continue reading →

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