Monthly Archives: January 2025

Britain takes stake in SpaceX rival Orbex to boost space ambitions

The U.K. government has invested £20 million in Orbex, a Scottish spaceflight startup aiming to rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

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Meteomatics eyes U.S. expansion for its enterprise-focused weather forecasting tools

Martin Fengler knows a lot about the weather. Fengler got his Ph.D. 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 … Continue reading

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Garmin users say smartwatches have stopped working

Its Fenix 8 smartwatches, which retail for just under £1,000, are some of the devices to have issues.

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DeepSeek’s AI avoids answering 85% of prompts on ‘sensitive topics’ related to China

AI chatbot DeepSeek has taken the world by storm, topping app store charts and sending Silicon Valley and Wall Street into meltdown. An offshoot of Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, DeepSeek’s cost-to-performance ratio makes for impressive reading compared to incumbents such … Continue reading

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Microsoft probing whether DeepSeek improperly used OpenAI APIs

Just a few hours after David Sacks claimed DeepSeek used OpenAI’s models to train its own models, Bloomberg Law reports that Microsoft is investigating DeepSeek’s use of OpenAI’s application programming interface (API). According to security researchers working for Microsoft, the … Continue reading

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ASML CEO sees low-cost AI models like DeepSeek driving more demand — not less

Without addressing the specifics of DeepSeek’s model, ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told CNBC he sees no sign of a slowdown in demand for AI chips.

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This fintech has a fix for the biggest cross-border payments issues in Francophone Africa

Until a few years ago, it used to be difficult to make payments across borders almost anywhere in the world. But it’s still a big problem in Africa, where fragmented, disconnected systems, high fees, and poor infrastructure make it tough … Continue reading

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China’s DeepSeek AI on US national security radar

The White House is looking into whether China’s apparent AI breakthrough affects US national security.

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Shared scooter startup Voi reports its first profitable year as it explores an IPO

Swedish shared micromobility giant Voi had its first profitable year in 2024, according to preliminary unaudited results the company shared exclusively with TechCrunch.  Voi, which offers shared e-scooters and e-bikes across more than 100 markets in Europe, recorded €132.8 million … Continue reading

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DeepSeek reaches No. 1 on US Play Store

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s Android app has taken the No. 1 spot on the Google Play Store, days after the chatbot app clinched the top spot on the App Store. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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