Do not indexDo not indexTracking the news They Invested Billions. Then the A.I. Script Got Flipped.Venture capitalists plowed money into A.I. start-ups like OpenAI and Anthropic. But the rise of the Chinese A.I. start-up DeepSeek has called that funding frenzy into question.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/technology/deepseek-ai-startups-venture-capital.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Opinion | How Doctors Can Best Integrate A.I. Into Medical CareResearch suggests physicians are undervaluing how artificial intelligence can improve medical care.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/ai-doctors-medicine.html DeepSeek A.I. Is a Win for China, but a Danger to Party ControlDeepSeek’s success embodies China’s ambitions in artificial intelligence. But it could also threaten the grip on power the nation’s leaders hold.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/world/asia/deepseek-china-ai-censorship.html China’s DeepSeek is redefining AI tech. Here’s why the US must get on boardDeepSeek shows that hi-tech ‘is not all about scale and money’, one analyst says, as another calls China’s innovative march ‘unstoppable’.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3296728/chinas-deepseek-redefining-ai-tech-heres-why-us-must-get-board OpenAI says DeepSeek stole its AI data, but how common is ‘distillation’?Experts say AI model distillation is likely widespread and hard to detect, but DeepSeek has not admitted to using it on its full models.https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3296827/deepseeks-ai-distillation-theft-openai-seeks-answers-over-chinas-breakthrough DeepSeek outage adds to growing pains amid political scrutinyA cyberattack against the Chinese AI start-up has led to days of intermittent outages, as third parties including Nvidia tout self-hosted solutions.https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3296975/deepseek-outage-adds-growing-pains-amid-political-scrutiny-some-see-opportunity Gary Marcus on Twitter / XBoom, just like that: new, open model from @AllenInstitute, competitive with r1. There is no moat, anymore, friends. Links below. pic.twitter.com/AvNehVXNG5— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) January 30, 2025 https://x.com/GaryMarcus/status/1885036859962909082 Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D. on Twitter / XAnyone who thinks DeepSeek just came out of nowhere should see this graph.For each model on this graph, weights, code, and detailed papers were released.This is a team with a strong track record and has been working hard for a while. They didn't come out of nowhere. pic.twitter.com/OOYmobDLr9— Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D. (@iScienceLuvr) January 29, 2025 https://x.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1884736091619537346 Reinforcement Learning Heats Up, White House Orders Muscular AI Policy, and more...The Batch AI News and Insights: The buzz over DeepSeek this week crystallized, for many people, a few important trends that have been happening in...https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-286/ Gary Marcus on Twitter / XDon’t want to sound like - or be - an apologist for China. and in fact I pushed back against someone very close to the top Chinese leadership earlier this week on (UK) national television. But lots of US people are BS’ing here about where things are, and that is not a good long…— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) January 30, 2025 https://x.com/garymarcus/status/1885005636112711714?s=46&t=3diiaIwUieeZxoqCJKZfAA Gary Marcus on Twitter / XBREAKING: Berkeley team out-DeepSeeks DeepSeek. What DeepSeek did wasn’t that hard, but (a) it was clever (b) they were first to do it (c) they reduced the need for high-end chips for training and (d) they showed that the giant companies like OpenAI and Anthropic don’t have a… https://t.co/LG16lO0nss— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) January 30, 2025 https://x.com/garymarcus/status/1885000058120409162?s=46&t=3diiaIwUieeZxoqCJKZfAA Sky-T1: Train your own O1 preview model within $450We introduce Sky-T1-32B-Preview, our reasoning model that performs on par with o1-preview on popular reasoning and coding benchmarks.https://novasky-ai.github.io/posts/sky-t1/ Arnaud Bertrand on Twitter / XPeople are rightly ridiculing OpenAI over its accusations of Deepseek using their output to train their model, but most people are missing the truly terrifying implications here.The far more worrying aspect here is that OpenAI is suggesting that there are some cases in which… pic.twitter.com/JiA5HNlkQi— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) January 30, 2025 https://x.com/rnaudbertrand/status/1884937124644061263?s=46&t=3diiaIwUieeZxoqCJKZfAA Cyberattack on DeepSeek started in US: Chinese state mediaEarly assault on AI start-up reported to include denial-of-service attacks aiming to overwhelm servers and bandwidth with internet traffic.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3296765/cyberattack-deepseek-including-brute-force-assault-started-us-chinese-state-media Google pushes global agenda to educate workers, lawmakers on AIGoogle already faces a regulatory onslaught on many fronts.https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/google-pushes-global-agenda-educate-workers-lawmakers-ai-2025-01-25/ Jeremy Howard on Twitter / XY’all do understand, I hope, that the reason for the NVIDIA collapse is that the US announced massive tariffs on imported chips, which would destroy NVIDIA’s business entirely, if implemented?You can’t actually blame the Chinese for that y’know?— Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward) January 28, 2025 https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1884297867684372807?s=46&t=3diiaIwUieeZxoqCJKZfAA 𝗔𝗜 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲! My conversation with China’s Victor Gao plus a hot take on new essay by Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei[Sorry to swamp your mailboxes today, but there is a lot of important AI stuff happening.]https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/my-conversation-with-chinas-victor?r=iky1&utm_medium=ios‣ Dario Amodei — On DeepSeek and Export ControlsOn DeepSeek and Export Controlshttps://darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-and-export-controls Why blocking China's DeepSeek from using US AI may be difficultTop White House advisers this week expressed alarm that China's DeepSeek may have benefited from a method that allegedly piggybacks off the advances of U.S. rivals called "distillation."https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/why-blocking-chinas-deepseek-using-us-ai-may-be-difficult-2025-01-29/ OpenAI Cries FoulIrony is for losershttps://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/openai-cries-foul?r=iky1&utm_medium=ios OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitorwww.ft.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6?shareType=nongift DeepSeek R1 Exposed: Security Flaws in China’s AI ModelDiscover the security flaws in DeepSeek R1, a Chinese AI model with advanced reasoning capabilities. KELA's analysis reveals vulnerabilities, outdated safeguards, and privacy risks, emphasizing the need for robust testing in generative AI applications.https://www.kelacyber.com/blog/deepseek-r1-security-flaws/ Nvidia Reels After China’s A.I. BreakthroughThe 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.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/business/deepseek-nvidia-ai-chips.html Nvidia calls China’s DeepSeek R1 model ‘an excellent AI advancement’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%.https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/nvidia-calls-chinas-deepseek-r1-model-an-excellent-ai-advancement.html Kimi k1.5 vs DeepSeek R1: Battle of the Best Chinese LLMsFind the best performing Chinese LLM in this Kimi k1.5 Vs DeepSeek-R1 comparison. Compare the features and capabilities of both the models.https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2025/01/kimi-k1-5-vs-deepseek-r1/ Kimi k1.5: How This Next-Gen AI Model is Revolutionizing Multimodal Reasoning with Reinforcement…Discover how Kimi k1.5 a next-gen multimodal LLM uses reinforcement learning to outperform GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 in math, coding, and…https://medium.com/@ashinno43/kimi-k1-5-how-this-next-gen-ai-model-is-revolutionizing-multimodal-reasoning-with-reinforcement-e06fbd64c12c Kimi k1.5 : OpenAI-o1 level multi-modal modelDeepSeek’s new competition outperforms GPT-4o and Claude 3.5https://medium.com/data-science-in-your-pocket/kimi-k1-5-openai-o1-level-multi-modal-model-6eefb987d4cd Trump says Microsoft is in contention to buy TikTokMicrosoft, which declined to comment on the president’s remarks, had discussed buying TikTok in 2020, when Trump tried to force a sale of the app in his first term.https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/trump-microsoft-tiktok-sale/ How DeepSeek Went From Stock Trader to A.I. StarThe little-known artificial intelligence firm has emphasized research, even as it emerged as the brainchild of a hedge fund.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/business/deepseek-owner-china-ai.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it's limiting registrationsDeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations "due to large-scale malicious attacks" on its services.https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/deepseek-hit-with-large-scale-cyberattack-says-its-limiting-registrations.html DeepSeek-R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the costDeepSeek-R1’s Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. This story focuses on exactly how DeepSeek managed this feat, and what it means for the vast number of users of AI models. For enterprises developing AI-driven solutions, DeepSeek’s breakthrough challenges assumptions of OpenAI's dominance -- and offers a blueprint for cost-efficient innovation.https://venturebeat.com/ai/deepseek-r1s-bold-bet-on-reinforcement-learning-how-it-outpaced-openai-at-3-of-the-cost/ DeepSeek claims its 'reasoning' model beats OpenAI's o1 on certain benchmarks | TechCrunchDeepSeek has released an open version of its 'reasoning' AI model, DeepSeek-R1, that it claims performs as well as OpenAI's o1 on certain benchmarks.https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/27/deepseek-claims-its-reasoning-model-beats-openais-o1-on-certain-benchmarks/ Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is already using DeepSeek instead of OpenAI at his startup, Gloo | TechCrunchThe tech industry's reaction to AI model DeepSeek R1 has been wild. Pat Gelsinger, for instance, is elated and thinks it will make AI better for everyone.https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/27/former-intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-is-already-using-deepseek-instead-of-openai-at-his-startup-gloo/ Trump calls China’s DeepSeek AI app a ‘wake-up call’ after tech stocks slideSilicon Valley and Washington leaders said the app shows China can challenge the U.S. The Nasdaq lost 3 percent and chipmaker Nvidia shed $589 billion in market capitalization.https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/deep-seek-ai-markets-nvidia/ OpenAI’s Altman vows ‘better models’ as China’s DeepSeek disrupts global raceExecutives and investors question valuations and whether vast capital outlays are needed after allhttps://on.ft.com/4jD3qWD Why Nvidia investors are spooked by Chinese AI upstart DeepSeekShort sellers profit as US chipmaker loses nearly $600bn in market value on Mondayhttps://on.ft.com/3WAGhdx DeepSeek defies America’s AI supremacyA Chinese advance tests the assumptions behind lofty US tech valuationshttps://on.ft.com/4glzZW2 China’s A.I. Advances Spook Big Tech Investors on Wall StreetStiffer competition for the tech giants at the forefront of the artificial intelligence boom prompted investors to reassess the companies’ sky-high valuations.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/business/us-stock-market-deepseek-ai-sp500-nvidia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare What to Know About DeepSeek and How It Is Upending A.I.How did a little-known Chinese start-up cause the markets and U.S. tech giants to quake? Here’s what to know.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/technology/what-is-deepseek-china-ai.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Nvidia Reels After DeepSeek’s A.I. BreakthroughThe 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.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/business/deepseek-nvidia-ai-chips.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare How Google Maps Plans to Handle the ‘Gulf of America’Google said it would follow the Trump administration in renaming the Gulf of Mexico once the new name is updated in government sources.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/technology/google-maps-gulf-of-america-trump.html How Google Maps Plans to Handle the ‘Gulf of America’Google said it would follow the Trump administration in renaming the Gulf of Mexico once the new name is updated in government sources.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/technology/google-maps-gulf-of-america-trump.html Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI RaceAnnotated translation of its CEO's deepest interviewhttps://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-ceo-interview-with-chinas Kai-Fu Lee on Twitter / XIn my book AI Superpowers, I predicted that US will lead breakthroughs, but China will be better and faster in engineering. Many people simplified that to be “China will beat US”. And many claimed I was wrong with GenAI. With the recent Deepseek releases, I feel vindicated. pic.twitter.com/f3FujcDypr— Kai-Fu Lee (@kaifulee) January 27, 2025 https://x.com/kaifulee/status/1883689612637548818?s=46&t=3diiaIwUieeZxoqCJKZfAA The Short Case for Nvidia StockAll the reasons why Nvidia will have a very hard time living up to the currently lofty expectations of the market.https://youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com/blog/05_the_short_case_for_nvda Morgan Brown on Twitter / X🧵 Finally had a chance to dig into DeepSeek’s r1… Let me break down why DeepSeek's AI innovations are blowing people's minds (and possibly threatening Nvidia's $2T market cap) in simple terms...— Morgan Brown (@morganb) January 27, 2025 https://x.com/morganb/status/1883686162709295541?s=46&t=3diiaIwUieeZxoqCJKZfAA Poland fumes over US block on AI chipsPoland styles itself as a key US ally, but the chip restriction threatens to impact its ambitious military expansion on Putin’s border.https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-fumes-us-block-joe-biden-ai-chips-cap-export/ Asia tech stocks fall as DeepSeek sows doubts about AI spendingChinese start-up’s budget model raises questions about the need for huge western hardware investmenthttps://on.ft.com/40rkhTo Chinese AI disrupter DeepSeek claims top spot in US App Store, dethroning ChatGPTDeepSeek has integrated its reasoning model into the web and app versions of its chatbots for unlimited use at no cost.https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3296406/chinese-ai-disrupter-deepseek-claims-top-spot-us-app-store-dethroning-chatgpt Trump discussing TikTok purchase with multiple people, decision in 30 daysUnder one deal, ByteDance would retain a stake in TikTok but data collection and software updates would be overseen by Oracle.https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3296380/trump-discussing-tiktok-purchase-multiple-people-decision-30-days Drone meets robotic dog: cue the fireworks on Chinese social mediaViral video of robotic firefight sparks speculation on Chinese social media about the future of unmanned warfare.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3296346/drone-meets-robotic-dog-chinas-social-media-erupts-fireworks Drone & Cyber Dog fight, with fireworkshttps://youtube.com/shorts/se6KuQojylU?si=K8zkSgz8Zw5Z5tC9 DeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talking | TechCrunchSince Chinese AI company DeepSeek released an open version of its reasoning model R1 at the beginning of this week, many in the tech industry have beenhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/01/26/deepseek-gets-silicon-valley-talking/ Paul McCartney calls on UK government to protect artists from AI | TechCrunchLegendary musician Paul McCartney is warning against proposed changes to UK copyright law that would allow tech companies to freely train their models onhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/01/25/paul-mccartney-calls-on-uk-government-to-protect-artists-from-ai/ UK consults on opt-out model for training AIs on copyrighted content | TechCrunchThe U.K. government is consulting on an opt-out copyright regime for AI training that would require rights holders to take active steps if they don't wanthttps://techcrunch.com/2024/12/17/uk-consults-on-opt-out-model-for-training-ais-on-copyrighted-content/ Sam Altman tells OpenAI fans to lower their expectationsOpenAI CEO Sam Altman has shut down viral rumors that his company has built AGI.https://fortune.com/2025/01/20/sam-altman-ai-fans-lower-expectations-rumors-openai-brink-superintelligence/ The race for "AI Supremacy" is over — at least for now.Decades of government kowtowing to Big Tech has thus far failed to produce a decisive victoryhttps://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/the-race-for-ai-supremacy-is-over?r=iky1&utm_medium=ios Opinion | How the TikTok ban brought Americans and Chinese closerWhen refugees from the app showed up on an alternative called RedNote, understanding was fostered.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/26/rednote-tiktok-ban-americans-chinese/ Opinion | Us and Them Is All the RageA German political theorist helps explain MAGA morality.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/opinion/trump-maga-schmitt.html AI leaders clash over safety and $100bn Stargate projectTop tech leaders at Davos such as DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and Meta’s Yann LeCun in fiery debatehttps://on.ft.com/4h8RjPd How small Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek shocked Silicon ValleyHedge fund billionaire Liang Wenfeng builds model on tight budget despite US attempt to halt China’s high-tech ambitionshttps://on.ft.com/4aBs2e3 5 ways Project 2025 appeared in Trump’s presidential directivesA Post analysis identified at least two dozen presidential directives with some text that closely resembled the language or policy of Project 2025.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/25/5-ways-project-2025-appeared-trumps-presidential-directives/ Yann LeCun on LinkedIn: To people who see the performance of DeepSeek and think: "China is… | 503 commentsTo people who see the performance of DeepSeek and think: "China is surpassing the US in AI." You are reading this wrong. The correct reading is: "Open source… | 503 comments on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/yann-lecun_to-people-who-see-the-performance-of-deepseek-activity-7288591087751884800-I3sN?utm_source=li_share&utm_content=feedcontent&utm_medium=g_mb_web&utm_campaign=copy Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ PostsSome posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/technology/instagram-facebook-abortion-pill-providers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare X refuses to remove stabbing video watched by Southport killerAxel Rudakubana was able to view Australian clip before murdering three young children despite pleas from authoritieshttps://on.ft.com/42qeNL8 firstmonday.orghttps://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636/11599 Elon Musk vs Wikipedia: a clash over how to describe ‘Nazi salute’Dust-up comes after billionaire Musk made a straight-arm gesture at a Trump inauguration event on Monday.https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3295909/elon-musk-vs-wikipedia-clash-over-how-describe-nazi-salute?share=bvePx6g7ecL9tcoV7pP40JbooZGBOi13jcTRs%2B3I%2BeNljh6NqzOkXh2p1NhqkMKbiGEI%2Bw3tzO9b7BqErAlWnj2zeQhrRGc6th8Wbe2gjjjdddVar631NzSqqMJ7gP1Y6dZFrJR2IoXngSX4ekwv1w%3D%3D&utm_campaign=social_share ‘The vibes were off’: How half a day without TikTok changed everythingMost people slept through the bulk of TikTok’s outage. But the political play and a list of things that seem new or different on the app have left a bad taste in some users’ mouths.https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/22/tiktok-ban-app-online-users-quit/ China’s most popular AI app gets facelift with ByteDance’s Doubao 1.5The closed-source model bested leading models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Alibaba in some benchmark tests.https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3295834/chinas-most-popular-ai-app-gets-facelift-bytedances-doubao-15 When Google Altered Its Ad Rules, Charities Paid the PriceAfter the search giant welcomed more ads from small rivals like Ask.com, Google ad costs for some nonprofits ballooned.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/technology/google-online-ads-philanthropies.html Donald Trump says China tariffs could hinge on TikTok dealPresident signs executive order giving popular video app’s owner 75 days to find US buyerhttps://on.ft.com/4g55ovQ Trump Signs Executive Order in Attempt to Delay TikTok BanShortly after taking office Monday, the president issued the order to delay the app’s ban for 75 days. The law went into effect on Sunday.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/technology/trump-tiktok-ban-delay-executive-order.html TikTok Engineered Its Shutdown to Get Saved. But Trump’s Solution May Fall ShortPresident-elect Donald J. Trump’s idea, a 50-50 “joint venture” between the existing Chinese owner and some kind of American entity, was more politics than substance.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/us/politics/tiktoks-shutdown-notice-trump.html TikTok’s service providers still risk billions in penalties for bringing it back onlineThere are only a few ways to ensure their protection.https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/19/24347325/tiktok-service-providers-penalties-apple-google-orcale-trump TikTok already changed their lives foreverA look at people whose lives were changed forever by posting to or watching TikToks over the past few years.https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/19/tiktok-ban-important-community/ TikTok Starts Working Again After Trump Says He Will Stall a BanSome users saw the social media app come back online on Sunday, following a shutdown when a federal law went into effect requiring a sale or ban.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/technology/trump-tiktok-ban-executive-order.html Column | Banning TikTok hasn’t made us safeTikTok is gone (at least for now). But your privacy and kids are still at risk.https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/19/tiktok-ban-privacy-kids-safety/ She Is in Love With ChatGPTA 28-year-old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation. And yes, they do have sex.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/technology/ai-chatgpt-boyfriend-companion.html Apple Plans to Disable A.I. Summaries of News NotificationsThe company’s Apple Intelligence system has erroneously characterized news stories, provoking a backlash from media companies.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/technology/apple-ai-news-notifications.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Apple urged to withdraw 'out of control' AI news alertsApple has pledged improvements to its news summarising tool, but critics say it is dangerous and needs to be withdrawn.https://bbc.com/news/articles/cge93de21n0o Where is TikTok banned? These countries restrict the app.TikTok’s time in the United States is counting down. But Washington is only the latest government to impose restrictions on the video app.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/17/countries-banned-tiktok/ Democrats and Republicans partnered to ban TikTok. Now, neither party wants to own it.After a bipartisan bill to remove TikTok from app stores in the U.S. or force its sale passed last year, some officials in Washington now want to delay the ban from going into effect.https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/us-leaders-lawmakers-backpedal-eve-tiktok-ban-rcna188180 TikTok says it will go dark on Sunday unless Biden intervenes ‘immediately’ | CNN PoliticsTikTok on Friday said that it would turn off more than 170 million Americans’ access to the super popular video app on Sunday, unless President Joe Biden’s administration acts urgently to assure the company it will not be punished for violating the terms of its looming ban.https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/politics/tiktok-ban-supreme-court/index.html?cid=ios_app Publishers and Influencers Wonder What Could Replace the Power of BookTokWith a ban looming, publishers are hoping to pivot to new platforms, but readers fear their community of book lovers will never be the same.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/books/booktok-publishing.html ACLU Slams Supreme Court TikTok Ruling | American Civil Liberties UnionWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court issued a major blow to freedom of expression online today by refusing to block legislation that will effectively ban...https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-slams-supreme-court-tiktok-ruling The Free-Speech War Inside the ACLUWhen should a core value change?https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-free-speech-war-inside-the-aclu.html The government’s case for banning TikTok on national security grounds was light on examples.The Supreme Court ruled against TikTok on Friday, rejecting the social media company’s First Amendment challenge to the law that effectively bans it in the United States starting on Sunday.https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/17/us/tiktok-ban-supreme-court/the-governments-case-for-banning-tiktok-on-national-security-grounds-was-light-on-examples?smid=url-share Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social)TikTok’s future will turn on politics, not on today’s ruling, but by upholding the ban, the Court has markedly expanded the government’s power to censor in the name of national security. Its implications for TikTok may be limited, but the ruling creates a lot of space for other repressive policies.https://bsky.app/profile/jameeljaffer.bsky.social/post/3lfx4a4dyzc2y Update from Sapna MaheshwariThe decision came a week after the justices heard a First Amendment challenge to a law aimed at the wildly popular short-form video platform used by 170 million Americans that the government fears could be influenced by China.https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/17/us/tiktok-ban-supreme-court/a6c423d4-0efe-5a4c-b60a-8f12599de473?smid=url-share US Supreme Court upholds divest-or-ban law targeting TikTokUnanimous decision puts future of wildly popular video app in hands of Donald Trumphttps://on.ft.com/3C2O38Z TikTok sell-or-ban law is upheld by US Supreme CourtHigh court rules that law requiring ByteDance to sell video-sharing app to non-Chinese buyer or face US ban starting Sunday is constitutional.https://www.scmp.com/news/us/science-technology/article/3295272/tiktok-ban-upheld-us-supreme-court?share=Iy0KTTwZs9gTQWBgouUtgALpUXvhTuCTNVS7uORLiAhlY4bnAy2dU6Gqy2kt4%2BxiJs%2Bq1hG45lUX3BOaHVgC2YfP48CEVztbVqEE%2FzRSyoy31Tzxw%2B6fF3YOLm%2BPXEM%2BZmf6Nu32nPw7XBxpCTji7A%3D%3D&utm_campaign=social_share Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban, App May Shut Down Jan. 19 in the U.S.The Supreme Court rejected TikTok's appeal to halt a law banning the app in the U.S. unless Chinese parent ByteDance sells its stake by Jan. 19.https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/supreme-court-tiktok-ban-ruling-shutdown-1236274925/ Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban-or-sale law slated to start SundayDonald Trump had asked the Supreme Court to delay TikTok’s ban-or-sale law to give him an opportunity to act once he returns to the White House.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/17/titktok-ban-supreme-court-decision-ruling/ Is TikTok pushing Taiwan’s young people closer to China?A growing number of researchers fear that the controversial app is promoting pro-China content and softening attitudes towards the People’s Republichttps://on.ft.com/40DRGM5 TikTok Refugees Get Wry Welcome on RedNote, Another Chinese AppIn their mass migration to the Chinese app RedNote, social media users make a gleeful mockery of the American government.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/arts/tiktok-red-note-china.html YouTubers sell footage to tech giants as AI video arms race heats upOpenAI and other firms’ need for footage to train AI video generators has content creators selling them unused footage, but there are issues.https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3294646/ai-video-arms-race-and-why-google-and-others-are-paying-youtube-creators-footage Chinese AI start-up MiniMax intensifies competition with new open-source modelsThe release, which includes foundational and multimodal models, comes weeks after rival DeepSeek set a new standard with its own open-source models.https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3294900/chinese-ai-start-minimax-releases-low-cost-open-source-models-rival-top-chatbots Trending off TikTok? US users going to RedNote face challenges, analysts sayDifferent content regulations and lack of English support could mean short-lived American-fuelled growth for suddenly popular alternative platform.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3294775/trending-tiktok-us-users-going-chinas-xiaohongshu-face-challenges-analysts-say Mark Lemley (@marklemley.bsky.social)I have struggled with how to respond to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness. While I have thought about quitting Facebook, I find great value in the connections and friends I have here, and it doesn't seem fair that I should lose that 1/4https://bsky.app/profile/marklemley.bsky.social/post/3lfnpjquzks2r Meta AI creates speech-to-speech translator that works in dozens of languagesNature - Machine-learning system can process words spoken in 101 languages, spitting out voice-synthesized translations in 36 target languages.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00045-y Trump’s return could mark start of new race with China over drones for militaryThe US is lagging behind its main rival when it comes to dual-use drones that play a key role in many aspects of modern warfare.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3295040/could-trumps-return-mark-start-new-race-china-over-drones-military?share=y8AN1Y4vA8ZMiTrzGe7x5YMqOXhappiYjRGE7EYbNG%2F89QytLhtKPXkco1M7k2%2BR5f6YbYhSB4b1Y3F2rIBXRka4KRqDBI7n5zHaR47O8wU7hJd7rJQtyqmE5VSQ7WRUc0E%2F9IM%2FcjTBJ%2F%2B46IXVsQ%3D%3D&utm_campaign=social_share TikTok C.E.O. Plans to Attend Trump InaugurationShou Chew will join tech moguls like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk at President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as the fate of the app hangs in the balance.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/us/politics/tiktok-ceo-trump-inauguration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Opinion | Meta’s Decision to End Fact-Checking Could Have Disastrous ConsequencesWhat happens on Meta’s platforms is more than just a matter of company policy.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/opinion/meta-fact-checking-policy.html Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg’s Macho Posturing Looks a Lot Like CowardiceFocus on what the Meta chief does, not what he says.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump.html US imposes export controls on chips for AI to counter ChinaAmerican semiconductor industry warns move will aid competitors while EU has also protested against the new ruleshttps://on.ft.com/3C6fFtG Study finds that reliance on AI could harm critical thinking in young peopleMore than 650 people took part in the research, which suggests a link between usage and lower cognitive abilities.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3294976/university-rules-ai-may-need-consider-its-effect-critical-thinking Opinion | This Is What It Looks Like When Mark Zuckerberg Runs Out of IdeasHe has leveraged his political ambiguity to strengthen Meta, with consequences for the future of Silicon Valley and for the truth.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/opinion/contributors/mark-zuckerberg-trump-meta-lobbying.html Nvidia’s Booming A.I. Business Collides With U.S.-Chinese TensionsThe chipmaker expects more than $10 billion in foreign sales this year, but the Biden administration is advancing rules that could curb that growth.https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/technology/nvidia-chip-sales-us-china.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare All-Robot Assault Opens New Chapter in Front-Line WarfareUkraine’s drone-only attack was the first of its kind and is set to carve a path for more fully automated warfare.https://www.wsj.com/world/all-robot-assault-opens-new-chapter-in-front-line-warfare-5f29d4ca
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