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Chinese AI firm on US national security radar

Chinese AI firm on US national security radar

US officials are considering the national security implications of an apparent artificial intelligence (AI) breakthrough by Chinese firm DeepSeek, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. The announcement comes after the US navy reportedly banned its members from using DeepSeek’s apps due to “potential security and ethical concerns”. Meanwhile, the maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI, … Read more

Sony Corp. and PlayStation have new leadership

Sony Corp. and PlayStation have new leadership

Sony Corp. shook up the top leadership of the company as well as at its major PlayStation division. It has appointed Hiroki Totoki to the CEO job, and Hideaki Nishino will be the sole CEO of the PlayStation division, Sony Interactive Entertainment. Totoki, a 38-year Sony veteran, will replace Kenichiro Yoshida as CEO on April … Read more

What to know about DeepSeek AI, from cost claims to data privacy

What to know about DeepSeek AI, from cost claims to data privacy

CFOTO/Contributor/Getty Images A new player has entered the AI villa, and it’s creating significant disruption.  Chinese AI startup DeepSeek made waves last week when it released the full version of R1, the company’s open-source reasoning model that can outperform OpenAI’s o1. On Monday, App Store downloads of DeepSeek’s AI assistant — which runs V3, a model … Read more

Doom + Doom II now supports multiplayers mods

Doom + Doom II now supports multiplayers mods

Old-school Doom fans have something new to chew on until The Dark Ages arrives. Doom + Doom II, the latest in a long line of rereleases of the two id Software classics, was updated on Tuesday with multiplayer mod support. And balance was restored in Hades. At launch in August, the bundle — available for … Read more

Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Jan. 29

Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Jan. 29

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Oof, the NYT Mini Crossword had some stumpers today. Those three clues about magicians threw me, and I had to slowly work my … Read more

Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government

Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government

Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new administration, but the US federal government is already rolling out the Twitter playbook to manage its spending and personnel. Just like Musk did when he took over the social media platform, Trump’s team is attempting to drastically reduce the number of … Read more

DeepSeek R1: Why AI experts think it’s so special

DeepSeek R1: Why AI experts think it’s so special

All of a sudden, DeepSeek is everywhere. Its R1 model is open source, allegedly trained for a fraction of the cost of other AI models, and is just as good, if not better than ChatGPT. This lethal combination hit Wall Street hard, causing tech stocks to tumble, and making investors question how much money is … Read more