Monthly Archives: January 2025

Cornell’s robot jellyfish and worm are powered by a hydraulic fluid battery

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Techme101

Researchers at Cornell University on Monday showcased a pair of bio-inspired robotics running on a hydraulic fluid-powered battery. The redox flow battery (RFB) also mimics biological functions, as it releases electrolytic fluids, which dissolve to create energy through chemical reaction. … Continue reading →

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Nvidia calls China’s DeepSeek R1 model ‘an excellent AI advancement’

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Techme101

Nvidia called DeepSeek’s R1 model “an excellent AI advancement,” despite the Chinese startup’s emergence causing the chip maker’s stock price to plunge 17%.

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What is DeepSeek? And How Is It Upending A.I.?

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Techme101

How did a little-known Chinese start-up cause the markets and U.S. tech giants to quake? Here’s what to know.

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Nvidia Reels After DeepSeek’s A.I. Breakthrough

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Techme101

The tech industry has had an insatiable appetite for Nvidia’s chips over the last two years. But the feast may be over sooner than many had expected.

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DeepSeek Chatbot Beats OpenAI on App Store Leaderboard

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Techme101

The Chinese firm said it cost just $5.6 million to train a model that can reason through complex answers and compete with OpenAI’s o1.

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Hackers are targeting machine identities. Token Security just raised $20M to stop them

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Techme101

The number of machine identities is booming thanks to the growth of cloud and AI – and it’s posing real security problems by giving hackers way more entry points than ever before. For example, a 2023 hack of authentication app … Continue reading →

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Smartwatch pioneer and Kickstarter darling Pebble is returning in a new form

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Techme101

Four years after launching the (then) most lucrative crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter’s history, Pebble abruptly ended. The hardware startup closed 2016 by filing for insolvency, before being sold off to Fitbit. The fitness-tracking giant built much of the Ionic smartwatch … Continue reading →

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AI Growth Outpaces Skills Acquisition in Australia, According to Google & Accenture

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Techme101

There is a disparity in the percentage of employees who feel equipped to use AI and what C-suite executives perceive that number to be.

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DeepSeek displaces ChatGPT as the App Store’s top app

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Techme101

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 … Continue reading →

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How DeepSeek’s efficient AI could stall the nuclear renaissance

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Techme101

The startups and power producers that are betting big on new nuclear are vulnerable to an energy efficient AI model. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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