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How DeepSeek’s efficient AI could stall the nuclear renaissance

The startups and power producers that are betting big on new nuclear are vulnerable to an energy efficient AI model. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Bluesky adds video to user profiles

Social network Bluesky is doubling down on video. After it added a new TikTok-like custom video feed last week in the wake of the U.S. ban on the popular video app (now on pause), the company on Monday announced it’s … Continue reading

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AI startup DeepSeek pauses signups amid cyber incident

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that made waves in the AI world last week when it released its open-source R1 model, is pausing new user signups. The company has temporarily paused new user registrations this morning, according to CNBC reporting, … Continue reading

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Viral AI company DeepSeek releases new image model family

DeepSeek, the viral AI company, has released a new set of multimodal AI models that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s DALL-E 3. The models, which are available for download from the AI dev platform Hugging Face, are a part of … Continue reading

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Grok 3 seemingly went live for some users

The next flagship AI model from Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, might be nearing release. Over the weekend, several users on X, including reverse engineer Alexey Shabanov, reported gaining access to Grok 3, the successor to xAI’s current model, Grok … Continue reading

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Meta AI can now use your Facebook and Instagram data to personalize its responses

Meta says that it is rolling out improvements to Meta AI, its cross-platform chatbot, including the ability have the bot “remember” details from conversations. In a post on Meta’s official blog, the company said that, in chats with Meta AI … Continue reading

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Lydian can make aviation fuel wherever there’s CO2 and electricity

Replacing inexpensive fossil fuels is a tall hurdle, but Lydian thinks it has cracked the problem. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Mistral’s origin story has an insuretech founder at its heart

If you’ve been following the AI industry, Mistral should be a familiar name by now. The French AI startup with a $6 billion valuation is arguably the biggest AI company working on foundation models in Europe. Alan, on the other … Continue reading

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DeepSeek ‘punctures’ tech spending plans, and what analysts are saying

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has emerged as a potential challenger to U.S. AI leaders, demonstrating breakthrough models that claim to offer performance comparable to leading chatbots at a fraction of the cost. The company’s mobile app, released in early January, … Continue reading

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TalkTalk investigating data breach after hacker claims theft of customer data

A hacker claims to be selling the data of 18.8 million TalkTalk customers, but the telecoms giant says this figure is ‘significantly overstated’ © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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