<p>Video reigns supreme on social media like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. And now, video is becoming a bigger business for LinkedIn.&nbsp; The Microsoft-owned social network for the working world has yet to go full TikTok. But with a big boost of usage — today it said that video uploads jumped by 36% compared to last [&hellip;]</p>

<p>DeepSeek&#8217;s model is censored at both the application and training layers, a Wired investigation shows.</p>

<p>Social media changed everything, from news consumption to shopping. Now, Dub thinks it can do the same for investing through an influencer-driven marketplace where users can follow the trades of top investors with a few taps. Think of it as TikTok meets Wall Street. Founded by 23-year-old Steven Wang — a Harvard dropout who began [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Chinese fast-fashion platform Shein has relaunched in India through a partnership with local conglomerate Reliance&#8217;s retail chain, nearly five years after Shein was banned amid diplomatic tensions between New Delhi and Beijing. The new Shein India Fast Fashion app, developed and launched by billionaire Mukesh Ambani&#8217;s Reliance Retail, marks the firm&#8217;s significant return to one [&hellip;]</p>

<p>People working for, or with, Elon Musk are reportedly taking over the inner workings of multiple government agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management, the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration. The Washington Post reported Friday that the highest-ranking career official at Treasury is leaving the department after &#8220;a clash&#8221; with people working for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView, to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models. The company revealed this in a system card &#8212; a document outlining how an AI system works &#8212; that was released along with its new “reasoning” model, o3-mini, on Friday. Millions of Reddit users are members [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Midha says R1 won&#8217;t stop AI from spending billions.It means they will do more with the compute power they can obtain.</p>

<p>The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has hit U.K.-based remittance company Wise with about a $2 million fine for what it described as “a series of illegal actions.” Those actions include advertising inaccurate fees and failing to properly disclose exchange rates and other costs, the CFPB alleges. Specifically, the agency claims that the fintech company [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Semiconductor giant Intel Corporation has already received $2.2 billion in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Commerce through the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, the company shared during its Thursday earnings call. Dave Zinsner, Intel&#8217;s co-interim CEO, executive vice president, and CFO, said the Silicon Valley-based company received the first tranche of $1.1 billion [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook said DeepSeek&#8217;s AI models represent &#8220;innovation that drives efficiency&#8221; during an earnings call Thursday while fielding questions from analysts about the iPhone maker&#8217;s AI ambitions. &#8220;In general, I think innovation that drives efficiency is a good thing. And, you know, that&#8217;s what you see in that model,&#8221; said Cook, responding to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For nearly nine years, Elon Musk has promised Tesla vehicles had the hardware needed to support a self-driving car. This week, he made his latest admission that many are not. Musk said on a conference call Wednesday evening that Tesla cars equipped with so-called Hardware 3 will need an upgrade before they can support unsupervised [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Despite news that Andreessen Horowitz closed its London crypto-focused office, the VC reportedly still has dozens of scouts in Europe looking for startups.</p>

<p>Chinese AI lab DeepSeek provoked the first Silicon Valley freak-out of 2025 after releasing open versions of AI models that compete with the best technology OpenAI, Meta, and Google have to offer. DeepSeek claims to have built its models highly efficiently and quickly (though some are skeptical of these claims), and is providing these models [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Web-based party games are making a comeback, now with the infusion of generative AI. Among the startups joining the trend, the current forecast looks good for one startup, Little Umbrella, which leverages AI for its social party games.&nbsp; The company announced on Thursday its $2 million seed funding round. Little Umbrella plans to use the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta says its controversial decision to put an end to its fact-checking program hasn&#8217;t impacted advertiser spend. On its Q4 2024 call, Meta CFO Susan Li assured investors that advertiser demand remains strong and the company&#8217;s commitment to brand safety remains unchanged, despite the new measures. Meanwhile, CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted that the community notes [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Martin Fengler knows a lot about the weather. Fengler got his PhD in mathematics, focused on numerical weather prediction, before working for Meteomedia AG, a network of weather stations in Switzerland and Germany. But while he knew a lot about weather forecasting from the prediction side, he realized the gaps that remained on the consumption [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The engineering and automation contractor for the U.S. government said the hackers encrypted some of the company&#8217;s files.</p>

<p>The mobile app for DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, skyrocketed to the No. 1 spot in app stores around the globe this weekend, topping the U.S.-based AI chatbot, ChatGPT. On iOS, DeepSeek is currently the No. 1 free app in the U.S. App Store and 51 other countries, according to mobile app analytics firm Appfigures. [&hellip;]</p>