People are benchmarking AI by having it make balls bounce in rotating shapes

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Techme101

The list of informal, weird AI benchmarks keeps growing. Over the past few days, some in the AI community on X have become obsessed with a test of how different AI models, particularly so-called reasoning models, handle prompts like this: “Write a Python script for a bouncing yellow ball within a shape. Make the shape […]
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US users dumped RedNote after Trump paused the TikTok ban

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Techme101

In the days leading up to the TikTok ban in the U.S. on Sunday, U.S. users flooded the Chinese app RedNote, which offered a similar experience to their favorite short-form video app. The app, which is listed in the U.S. App Store under its Chinese name Xiaohongshu, quickly became the No. 1 free app in […]
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Zuckerberg sets Meta’s AI targets for the year, expects to spend $60 billion on growth

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Techme101

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company plans to invest around $60 to $65 billion in capital expenditure this year

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SEC revokes unpopular banking rule that blocked Wall Street banks from adopting crypto

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Techme101

SEC rescinds controversial rule in latest pro-crypto measure taken by new Trump administration.

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Meta to Increase Spending to $65 Billion This Year in A.I. Push

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Techme101

Much of the capital investment, a big jump from 2024, will fund expansion of Meta’s data centers, which provide the computing power needed by A.I. products and algorithms.

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Flip, the TikTok Shop rival, launches a creator fund that grants up to $100M of equity

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Techme101

Flip is a social commerce app that lets shoppers become creators. They can share honest reviews and earn cash based on engagement on the platform. As Flip competes with TikTok Shop and other platforms in a highly competitive market, it has introduced a new creator fund that offers a unique opportunity to help it stand […]
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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will have 1.3M GPUs for AI by year-end

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Techme101

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company plans to significantly up its capital expenditures this year as it aims to keep pace with rivals in the cutthroat AI space. In a Facebook post Friday, Zuckerberg said that Meta expects to spend $60 billion-$80 billion on capex in 2025, primarily on data centers and growing […]
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OpenAI’s Stargate project reportedly doesn’t have the money it needs

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Techme101

Stargate — the massive infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI in the U.S. — lacks a fully developed plan and hasn’t secured funding yet, according to a report from the Financial Times. Backed by OpenAI, SoftBank, Middle East AI fund MGX, and others, Stargate would funnel around $100 billion — and upward of […]
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Apple admits next-gen CarPlay is late, but still in development

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Techme101

Though Apple rarely misses self-imposed deadlines, it’s done so with the next-generation CarPlay. The company originally teased the update back in 2022. With this new version, CarPlay will integrate seamlessly with the instrument cluster to provide information on speed, climate control, and other car data. Apple had promised an initial rollout for a limit set […]
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How China’s new AI model DeepSeek is threatening U.S. dominance

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Techme101

An AI lab out of China has ignited panic in Silicon Valley after releasing impressive AI models more cheaply and with less-powerful chips than U.S. AI giants.

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