While privacy fears are justified, the main beef Silicon Valley has is that China’s chatbot is democratising the technology No, it was not a “Sputnik moment”. The launch last month of DeepSeek R1, the Chinese generative AI or chatbot, created mayhem in the tech world, with stocks plummeting and much chatter about the US losing …
The first volume of the tech baron turned philanthropist’s memoirs focuses on his parent’s struggles to control him – and a painful early loss The enduring mystery about William Henry Gates III is this: how did a precocious and sometimes obnoxious kid evolve into a billionaire tech lord and then into an elder statesman and …
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Sam found himself getting sucked deeper and deeper in to betting, sometimes risking £11,000 in a day. Now a judge has ruled he was unlawfully targeted At 1.17pm on 15 August 2018, Sam* logged in to his online betting account and gambled five days’ worth of wages. Already deep in debt – having taken out …
The cheap Chinese chatbot has stunned tech giants – and opened up the possibility that other countries, not just China, could now afford to enter the AI race At 2.16pm California time last Sunday, the US billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen called it. “DeepSeek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” he posted on X. A Chinese …
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The AI startup has upended the industry by developing a model that costs much less to produce – and is available free to a universe of tinkerers Nothing cheers up a tech columnist more than the sight of $600bn being wiped off the market cap of an overvalued tech giant in a single day. And …
James Florence, 36, agreed to plead guilty after using victim’s information to guide chatbots in impersonation A man from Massachusetts has agreed to plead guilty to a seven-year cyberstalking campaign that included using artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to impersonate a university professor and invite men online to her home address for sex. James Florence, 36, …
Chatbots we tested can write a mean sonnet and struggled with images of clocks, but vary in willingness to talk politics ChatGPT and its owners must have hoped it was a hallucination. But DeepSeek is very real. Continue reading… Chatbots we tested can write a mean sonnet and struggled with images of clocks, but vary …
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Move to issue 03-mini model follows sudden arrival of much cheaper Chinese rival DeepSeek’s R1 OpenAI is releasing a new artificial intelligence model for free, after the company said it would speed up product releases in response to the emergence of a Chinese rival. The startup behind ChatGPT is issuing the AI, called o3-mini, after …
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Experts say use of groups to warn others about dangerous men is indictment on governments’ failure to keep women safe “Any info on Chris* please? Thanks.” The words in a Facebook post, above three pictures of a man. In the comments, a woman replies: “He was also posted a few days ago by someone.” Further …
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Francesco Cancellato, whose reporting exposes fascists within PM Meloni’s far-right party, condemns ‘violation’ An Italian investigative journalist who is known for exposing young fascists within prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party was targeted with spyware made by Israel-based Paragon Solutions, according to a WhatsApp notification received by the journalist. Francesco Cancellato, the editor-in-chief of the …
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