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

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 MIT license,...

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How to switch off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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Quartz has been quietly publishing AI-generated news articles

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Quartz, the international business news outlet, has been quietly aggregating reporting from other outlets, including TechCrunch, in order to publish AI-generated articles under the byline “Quartz Intelligence Newsroom.” Quartz started...

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Cornell’s robot jellyfish and worm are powered by a hydraulic fluid battery

Researchers at Cornell University on Monday showcased a pair of bio-inspired robotics running on a hydraulic fluid-powered battery. The redox flow battery (RFB) also mimics biological functions, as it releases electrolytic fluids, which dissolve to...

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Alibaba’s Qwen team releases AI models that can control PCs and phones

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Chinese AI lab DeepSeek might be getting the bulk of the tech industry’s attention this week. But one of its top domestic rivals, Alibaba, isn’t sitting idly by. Alibaba’s Qwen team on Monday released a new family of AI models, Qwen2.5-VL, that...

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Smartwatch pioneer and Kickstarter darling Pebble is returning in a new form

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Four years after launching the (then) most lucrative crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter’s history, smartwatch maker Pebble abruptly closed in 2016, filing for insolvency before being sold off to rival Fitbit. The fitness-tracking giant went on to...

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Hackers are targeting machine identities. Token Security just raised $20M to stop them.

The number of machine identities is booming thanks to the growth of cloud and AI — and it’s posing real security problems by giving hackers way more entry points than ever before. For example, a 2023 hack of authentication app Okta was caused by...

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OpenAI-backed 1X acquires Kind Humanoid

1X has acquired Kind Humanoid, the Norwegian robotics startup told TechCrunch on Monday. The deal marks a small but key consolidation for a humanoid robotics industry on the brink of a major moment in 2025. TechCrunch spoke with Kind Humanoid in...

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How DeepSeek’s efficient AI could stall the nuclear renaissance

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DeepSeek displaces ChatGPT as the App Store’s top app

The mobile app for DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, skyrocketed to the No. 1 spot in app stores around the globe this weekend, topping the U.S.-based AI chatbot, ChatGPT. On iOS, DeepSeek is currently the No. 1 free app in the U.S. App Store and 51 other...

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AI startup DeepSeek pauses signups amid cyber incident

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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,...

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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 adding a new video tab to...

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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 part of a new model family that...

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: 5 Days left to claim your 2 for 1 Passes at the lowest rate of the year

The clock is ticking for one of our Super Early Bird sales! You have just 5 days left to lock in your 2 for 1 Passes at the lowest rates of the year for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Save up to $1,400 on two of the same individual ticket type. This...

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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 to have the bot “remember” details from conversations. In a post on Meta’s official blog, the company said that, in chats with Meta AI...

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Grok 3 seemingly went live for some users

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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...

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How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline

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

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

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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 hand, isn’t as...

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

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

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