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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s newest AI model, an updated version of the company’s R1 reasoning model, achieves impressive scores on benchmarks for coding, math, and general knowledge, nearly surpassing OpenAI’s flagship o3. But the upgraded R1, also known as “R1-0528,” might also be less willing to answer contentious questions, in particular questions about topics the Chinese government considers to be controversial. That’s according to testing conducted by the pseudonymous developer behind SpeechMap, a platform to compare how different models treat sensitive and controversial subjects. The developer, who goes by the username “xlr8harder” on X, claims that R1-0528 is “substantially” less permissive…

Meta AI now has one billion monthly active users across its apps, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, as first reported by CNBC. The new milestone doubles the 500 million monthly active users Meta AI had back in September 2024. The “focus for this year is deepening the experience and making Meta AI the leading personal AI with an emphasis on personalization, voice conversations and entertainment,” Zuckerberg said. He went on to state that Meta’s plan is to keep building out the AI assistant before creating a business around it. As the assistant gets…

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Nearly two years after suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, The New York Times has agreed to license its editorial content to Amazon to train the tech giant’s AI platforms.  The agreement will “bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,” the outlet said in a statement. That includes content like news articles, material from NYT Cooking, a site dedicated to food and recipes, and The Athletic, its sports-focused site.  The company also noted that Amazon’s use of The Times’s editorial content could extend to Alexa software on its smart speakers.  “Whenever it makes sense within…

Summary Naruto emphasized hard work over talent, showcasing underdog characters like Naruto and Rock Lee. Shippuden introduced a chosen one theme, undermining the series’ original message of hard work triumphing. Naruto’s lineage and reincarnation as Asura led to power-ups that undercut his growth through hard work. The Naruto series is laced with nuanced themes and profound subtexts, with one in particular that has been apparent from the very beginning of the series. Right from the get-go, the Naruto series has made a point to emphasize the role of hard work and willpower, and how anyone can succeed through enough dedication…

New York-based Donut Labs has raised $7 million in a pre-seed funding round to build what it claims is the world’s first “agentic” crypto browser — a tool designed to help users interact with blockchain-based applications using artificial intelligence.The round was led by Sequoia, Bitkraft and HackVC, with participation from angel investors including Solana and other ecosystem leaders, such as Matrix Partners, Sky9 Ventures, Makers Fund and SonicSVM.The $7 million will support the development of Donut, an executable crypto browser powered by artificial intelligence agents, with a native cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized exchange integration, decentralized network access and onchain execution.Unlike…

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the company behind Truth Social and other Trump-branded digital platforms, is planning to raise $2.5 billion to build one of the largest bitcoin treasuries among public companies. The deal involves the sale of approximately $1.5 billion in common stock and $1.0 billion in convertible senior secured notes. According to the company, the offering is expected to close by the end of May, pending standard closing conditions. Devin Nunes, CEO of Trump Media, said the investment in bitcoin is a big part of the company’s long-term plan. “We view Bitcoin as an apex instrument of…

In the construction industry, managers can easily become disconnected from what’s happening on-site. Among the many tasks to juggle are staying apprised of costs, communicating with all stakeholders, and assessing risk related to aspects like contractor billing and performance. Buildots wants to change all of that through AI and computer vision. Founded in 2018 by Roy Danon, Aviv Leibovici and Yakir Sudry, the Chicago startup offers a platform that tracks construction progress by processing images captured from 360-degree cameras mounted on managers’ hard hats. The system doesn’t just observe; it also forecasts. Teams can use a chatbot to ask questions…

The German gambling regulator, Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder (GGL), has published a comprehensive FAQ to address common misunderstandings about the legality of online casino offerings. The aim is to better inform the public about the licensing structure under the 2021 State Treaty on Gambling and distinguish legitimate operators from illegal ones, particularly where misuse of the term “online casino” is concerned.Since the enactment of the Glücksspielstaatsvertrag (GlüStV) in 2021, online gambling has been permitted in Germany within a strictly regulated framework. However, a major source of confusion lies in how the term “online casino” is used. According to the treaty,…

CNN  —  A top Kremlin aide has accused Donald Trump of being “not sufficiently informed” about the situation in Ukraine after the US president said Russian leader Vladimir Putin was “playing with fire.” Putin aide Yury Ushakov was reacting to Trump’s Truth Social post on Tuesday, in which the president said: “What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire!” Ushakov, a former Russian ambassador to Washington who was part of the negotiating team that Moscow sent…