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Trump says he wants to keep TikTok around ‘for a little while’

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Techme101

With a US TikTok ban scheduled to take effect in less than a month, President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he’d like to keep the app around, according to Reuters. “We’re going to have to start thinking because, you know, … Continue reading →

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OpenAI trained o1 and o3 to ‘think’ about its safety policy

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Techme101

OpenAI announced a new family of AI reasoning models on Friday, o3, which the startup claims to be more advanced than o1 or anything else it’s released. These improvements appear to have come from scaling test-time compute, something we wrote … Continue reading →

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What Google’s quantum computing breakthrough Willow means for the future of bitcoin and other cryptos

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Techme101

Google’s new chip Willow made a big statement that quantum computing is coming to the real world. That could also mean a future of cryptocurrency hacking.

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The biggest flops and fizzles in 2024 transportation, from Apple Car to Fisker

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Techme101

Autonomous vehicle technology and electrification startups were once the darlings of the VC and corporate world. The two technologies promised billions of dollars in revenue — and a new pathway for automakers to make money beyond building and selling cars.  … Continue reading →

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Apple might be working on a smart doorbell

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Techme101

There’s been a lot of reporting in recent months around Apple’s efforts to expand its footprint in customers’ homes with in-development products like a wall-mounted smart home hub. According to a new report in Bloomberg, that strategy could also include … Continue reading →

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Tetsuwan Scientific is making robotic AI scientists that can run experiments on their own

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Techme101

LLM models are already capable of diagnosing scientific outputs, but, until now, had “no physical agency to actually perform” experiments. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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House Democrats say GOP caved to Musk in funding bill, protecting his China interests

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Techme101

The funding bill that Congress passed over the weekend could have gone further if not for Elon Musk’s influence over Republicans, House Democrats say.

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OpenAI’s GPT-5 reportedly falling short of expectations

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Techme101

OpenAI’s efforts to develop its next major model, GPT-5, are running behind schedule, with results that don’t yet justify the enormous costs, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. This echoes an earlier report in The Information … Continue reading →

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OpenAI announces new o3 model — but you can’t use it yet

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Techme101

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at OpenAI’s last — and biggest — announcement from its “12 Days of OpenAI” event; Apple’s potential entrance into the foldable market; and why Databricks is choosing to wait to … Continue reading →

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Google pushes back against DOJ’s ‘interventionist’ remedies in antitrust case

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Techme101

Google has offered up its own proposal in a recent antitrust case that saw the US Department of Justice argue that Google must sell its Chrome browser. US District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled in August that Google had acted … Continue reading →

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