China created an artificial intelligence model that surprised the world
China-based artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has released an open-source’reasoning’ model called DeepSeek-R1, which can solve some scientific problems at a similar standard to the OpenAI’s LLM. Alibaba released its most advanced LLM so far, Qwen2.5-Max, which the company says outperforms DeepSeek’s V3, another LLM it released in December. Earlier, Moonshot and ByteDance released new reasoning models.
Trump agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit
Meta has agreed to pay a $25 million settlement to US President Donald Trump over a lawsuit over the suspension of his accounts after the US Capitol insurrection. Trump had sued Meta and Facebook CEO Mark Zuck for suspending him for violating policy against inciting violence and not due to statements made by a member of Congress, as his legal team claimed.
Friends, the man is sleeping at the office of the DOGE
An email sent by Tesla CEO Elon Musk to Twitter employees after Twitter was taken over by him states, “The federal workforce should be comprised of employees who are reliable, loyal, trustworthy, and who strive for excellence in their daily work.” Employees were told to return to work five days a week or resign and receive benefits and pay until September.
There are Ai studies that don’t get much attention
Researchers have developed a new AI model that claims to be the world’s first, capable of stepping-by-step tasks similar to human reasoning at a fraction of the cost and computing power of existing AI models. The model, called ‘DeepSeek-R1’, is capable of step-by-step tasks on data driven scientific tasks taken from real papers in topics including computational chemistry and cognitive neuroscience.
There is evidence that Openai’s models helped train China
Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether Chinese rival DeepSeek used OpenAI’s framework to integrate its models into their own, The Wall Street Journal reported. It said DeepSeek believes that large amounts of data were dumped through its developer accounts, which it believes are affiliated with DeepSeek. Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating if DeepSeek’s technology was integrated into their own.
How to use stolen device protection on a phone
Android users can now unlock their smartphones with the Face ID feature. The feature, announced in March, requires the user to use their face to unlock the phone. Further, it will require the user to know their password and access sensitive features on the phone, like using keychain passwords, seeing stored payment information in Safari, and disabling lost mode.
Trans people are already terrified after seeing a lot more hate
Following US President Donald Trump’s executive order on transgender identity, the US Department of Homeland Security said that it “has no plans to take any action” regarding online gender identity services such as Grindr. However, it added that it is “deeply concerned” and “concerned” about the order. It further said that there is “no question that trans individuals have a legal right to self-identify”.
The EV Mandate is what Trump says he ended
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that seeks to roll back the electric vehicle (EV) mandate. The order seeks to take a look at rules related to EVs and determine whether they’re “unduly burdensome” and interfere with consumer choice. The order has also ordered agencies to determine if the regulations are “unduly burdensome” and interfere with consumer choice.
This is what to know about the meme coins
US President Donald Trump’s supporters have launched a meme coin, ‘Trump coin’, worth $7 (over 56) on Sunday. CIC Digital and Fight Fight Fight own 80% of the Trump coin, which is currently worth about $60 (over 5,400). Trump’s supporters said the coin is intended to be a tool to share Trump’s “positive energy” with the American people.
Trump provides immunity to tech firms when he signs an executive order pausing the TikTok ban
US FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said, “TikTok’s threat to national security”. Carr also wrote about protecting US from security threats emanating from China, including by addressing “TikTok’s threat to national security”. On his first day in office, US President Donald Trump ordered the Attorney General to not enforce a law on American companies doing business with other countries for 75 days.