Threads adds a dedicated media tab globally for photos and video, days after X and Bluesky added video tabs, and will let users tag people in photos — Meta's newer social network Threads announced on Thursday that it's introducing a dedicated “media” tab for both photos and videos …
Sources: the Trump administration is exploring additional curbs on the sale of chips to China to cover Nvidia's scaled-down H20, designed for the Chinese market — - Officials had very early talks about restricting the H20 chip — Nvidia designed the scaled-down H20 product for Chinese market
How employees at Meta, Google, and more have quietly protested tech's rightward shift, as Mark Zuckerberg and others embrace Trump and muffle internal dissent — As Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans have embraced President Trump and muffled internal dissent at their companies …
Valencia-based Quibim, which is developing foundational AI models for medical imaging, raised a $50M Series A co-led by Asabys and Buenavista — Quibim, a Spanish startup that's developing foundational AI models for medical imaging spanning oncology, immunology, neurology, and metabolic disorders …
Sources: some banks led by Morgan Stanley are in talks to sell up to $3B of senior secured debt tied to Twitter's buyout, boosted by a claim to a ~$6B xAI stake — - Morgan Stanley leads lenders selling debt tied to X buyout — Creditors said to be told they'll have claim to AI stake
DeepSeek debuts a family of multimodal, MIT-licensed open-source models including Janus-Pro-7B, which it claims beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 in GenEval and DPG-Bench — DeepSeek, the viral AI company, has released a new set of multimodal AI models that it claims can outperform OpenAI's DALL-E 3.
A bear case for Nvidia: competition from hardware startups, inference-heavy “reasoning” models, DeepSeek's training and inference efficiency breakthroughs, more — As someone who spent ~10 years working as a generalist investment analyst at various long/short hedge funds …
A look at the growing prevalence of LLM-written posts that have been backdated and attributed to human authors on Physics Forums, which was founded in 2001 — What Internet Will Look Like in the Future — cripes does anybody remember Google People — Does anybody remember PhysicsForums?
After pouring tens of millions into Trump's campaign, the crypto industry has been paid back handsomely during his first week back, with EOs, rule changes, more — Crypto executives, companies and investors are getting an early return on their investment in Donald Trump.
Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration — The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model. — The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …
Some crypto executives worry Trump's memecoin undercut the industry's credibility at the very moment crypto is seeking a prominent place in mainstream finance — The president's promotion of a speculative digital coin left some crypto investors feeling blindsided, while others saw it as a gimmick …
The FBI warns that North Korean IT workers are abusing their access to steal source code and extort US companies that have been tricked into hiring them — The FBI warned today that North Korean IT workers are abusing their access to steal source code and extort U.S. companies that have been tricked into hiring them.
Sources: ByteDance has earmarked over $20.6B in capital expenditure for 2025, with about half of the amount on AI-related infrastructure outside China — ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, has earmarked over 150 billion yuan ($20.64 billion) in capital expenditure for this year …
Insomniac Games founder and CEO Ted Price plans to step down from the Sony-owned studio after 30+ years; a trio of Insomniac veterans will serve as co-heads — Taking over for Price, who will be staying with the PlayStation Studio through March, are a trio of Insomniac vets who will serve …
The SEC launches a “Crypto 2.0” task force led by SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, to create a “comprehensive and clear regulatory framework for crypto assets” — The Trump administration took its firs steps Tuesday toward an expected lowering of regulatory barriers for cryptocurrency.
Parrot Analytics estimates Severance season 1 earned $200M+, with ~50% coming in the year following the finale; Ted Lasso generated $609.4M from Q3'20 to Q3'24 — Parrot came to these figures via its Content Valuation methodology, which uses a formula to correlate audience demand with subscribers and therefore revenue.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-R1, an MIT-licensed model that does well with math, code, and reasoning tasks, alongside other open and distilled models — DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3.
TikTok says it's restoring its service in the US after reaching an “agreement with our service providers” and thanks Trump “for providing the necessary clarity” — TikTok has announced it's returning to US users. The company posted on X that it is …
Instagram now lets users upload Reels that are up to 3 minutes long, doubling the 90-second limit, as TikTok is set to go dark on Sunday — Instagram will now let you upload Reels that are up to 3 minutes long, doubling the 90-second limit the platform had in place before, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri announced today.
Google has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript to use Google Search, says to “better protect” Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam — Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely-used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search.
The US sanctions a China-based cybersecurity company involved in the Salt Typhoon hacks and a Shanghai-based hacker involved in the recent US Treasury breach — The U.S. Treasury department on Friday issued cyber-related sanctions related to the Salt Typhoon hack on Singaporean Yin Kechen …
Sources: Shield AI, maker of software for autonomous aircraft and drones, is raising ~$200M from Palantir and others at a $5B valuation, up from $2.8B in 2024 — Maker of software for autonomous aircraft is raising around $200mn from backers — Artificial intelligence start-up Shield AI …
Netradyne, which provides AI-enabled dashcams to fleet owners like Amazon, raised a $90M Series D led by Point72 at a pre-money valuation of $1.25B — Distracted driving is a leading cause of car crashes — and rising auto insurance premiums, which are expected to increase in 2025.
DoubleVerify says there is a jump in AI click farms, including a network of 200+ websites called Synthetic Echo, designed to siphon ad revenue from real outlets — A new report, shared exclusively with WIRED, shows how an AI content mill with hundreds of sites managed to pull big-name advertisers into their schemes.
Parallels rolls out an “early technology preview” of Parallels Desktop for Macs with Apple Silicon that has “really slow” support for x86 OSes, like Windows 11 — Virtualization software like Parallels and VMware Fusion give Mac owners the ability to run Windows …
OpenAI has appointed BlackRock exec Adebayo Ogunlesi to its board; last year, BlackRock acquired Ogunlesi's company Global Infrastructure Partners for ~$12B — The billionaire has experience focusing on infrastructure investments. — OpenAI has appointed BlackRock Inc. executive Adebayo Ogunlesi …
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg : Sources: Seoul-based AI chip designer FuriosaAI seeks to raise a $300M-$500M Series D to fund mass production of...
