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Month: January 2025
DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT: Hands On With DeepSeek’s R1 Chatbot
DeekSeek’s chatbot with the R1 model is a stunning release from the Chinese startup. While it’s an innovation in training efficiency, hallucinations still run rampant.
Quartz has been quietly publishing AI-generated news articles
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 publishing simple AI-generated earnings reports months ago, but beginning last week, the outlet moved on […]
Now Apple tells us how to update AirPods
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple updated its AirPods firmware support page today with a more detailed step-by-step guide on how to upgrade the AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max with their latest firmware, according to MacRumors. While most Apple devices, like […]
Phoenix Labs is laying off majority of employees, 2 years after Forte deal
Phoenix Labs, the maker of Dauntless and Fae Farm, has laid off a majority of its staff two years after it was quietly acquired by blockchain gaming firm Forte.
How to stream video on Fire TV with a VPN
Amazon Roku, Apple TV and Google TV (aka Chromecast) are all worthwhile streaming platforms. Each of them lets you view thousands of movies and TV shows on major apps like Disney+ and Netflix. And seeing all your favorites on a big-screen TV is way better […]
How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline
The hack at Change Healthcare stands as the biggest breach of U.S. medical data in history, exposing 190 million people’s data. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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 a new model family that […]
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 2, via X’s Grok chatbot […]
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 hand, isn’t as well known. […]

