Guest Essay Jan. 28, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET Credit...Photo Illustration by Maria Mavropoulou Listen to this article · 8:16 min Learn more By Dr. Desai is a professor at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School. During Monday’s stock market swoon, Nvidia, the artificial intelligence giant, lost…

ZDNET's key takeaways The Chipolo One Point and Card Point are available starting at $22. They're highly accurate, robust, and integrate well into the Google ecosystem. However, the One is only splashproof, and the Card version has a non-user-replaceable battery. $22 at Amazon AirTags are one of the…

On DeepSeek and Export Controls January 2025 A few weeks ago I made the case for stronger US export controls on chips to China. Since then DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, has managed to — at least in some respects — come close to the performance of US frontier AI models at lower cost. Here, I won't…

After months of speculation, Astral (creators of Ruff and uv) has officially announced their work on a new static type checker for Python. Built from the ground up in Rust, this tool aims to bring Astral’s signature focus on performance to Python’s static typing ecosystem. Charlie Marsh, Astral…

DeepSeek, a relatively unknown Chinese-developed AI model, is now the most popular app in the US Apple App Store based on hype associated with it releasing an an AI model that outpaces OpenAI’s and other companies’ models on some benchmarks while being trained on older chips at a much lower cost. It…

Dario Amodei, the CEO of the AI company Anthropic, has responded to the current hysteria in his industry and the financial markets around a new and surprisingly advanced Chinese AI model called DeepSeek by saying it proves the United States needs export controls on chips to China in order to ensure…

Image Credits:Getty Images under a GEN AI Base20K license. Startups 2025 will likely be another brutal year of failed startups, data suggests Mary Ann Azevedo 8:00 AM PST · January 26, 2025 More startups shut down in 2024 than the year prior, according to multiple sources, and that’s not really a…

Click Register Register Try Premium Member for Free with a 7-Day Trial Editor’s Note: Silicon Valley is reeling. A seismic shift in AI dominance is underway, and all eyes are on China. In January 2025, DeepSeek-R1—an open-source inference model from Chinese AI firm DeepSeek—sent shockwaves through…

Image Credits:Daniel de la Hoz (opens in a new window) / Getty Images AI Report: Majority of U.S. teens have lost trust in Big Tech Sarah Perez 9:32 AM PST · January 29, 2025 American teens have lost their faith in Big Tech, according to a new report from Common Sense Media, a nonprofit offering…

The Chinese startup DeepSeek shook up the world of AI last week after showing its supercheap R1 model could compete directly with OpenAI’s o1. While it wiped nearly $600 billion off Nvidia’s market value, Microsoft engineers were quietly working at pace to embrace the partially open- source R1 model…

Digital Reality Digital Shock Growing Up at the Dawn of Cyberspace For those of us born around 1980, William Gibson’s Neuromancer might be the most prophetic novel we never read as teenagers. Published in 1984, it predicted the digital world we would inherit: a reality where human consciousness…

Philip Ball finds Nicholas Carr’s “Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart” disturbingly compelling. January 28, 2025 Science & Technology Politics Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr. W. W. Norton & Company, 2025. 272 pages. HOW MUCH BETTER is…

Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel hardware and Android software were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program” for employees working in the Platforms & Devices group. SVP Rick Osterloh sent out a memo to employees this morning about the “voluntary exit…

If you need a file-like object that stores bytes in memory in Python, chances are you you’re using Pytho’s built-in io.BytesIO(). And since you’re already using an in-memory object, if your data is big enough you probably should try to save memory when reading that data back out. After all, it’s…

We live in interesting times. On Monday morning, tech stocks plunged on investor shock and awe over DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company that has built — I’m leaving out a lot of details — an open-source large language model (LLM) that performs competitively with name brands like ChatGPT at a fraction of…

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. For two and a half decades, Paul Krugman’s columns in the New York Times were beacons of intelligence and common sense. Particularly for progressives inured to the work of many of his colleagues, Krugman offered a liberal gospel that was also a…

As many people reading this know, last month I retired from my position as an opinion writer at the New York Times—a job I had done for 25 years. Despite the encomiums issued by the Times, it was not a happy departure. If you check out my Substack, you will see that I have by no means run out of…

NotebookLM is a tool for understanding anything. We recently announced that we’re making NotebookLM Plus — our premium version — part of more Google Workspace plans, giving tens of millions of Workspace customers benefits like more than 5x usage limits and features like shared team notebooks and the…

Free Time and Paid Work Benjamin Kunkel considers Martin Hägglund's democratic socialism. July 15, 2020 Philosophy & Religion Politics To find LARB’s symposium on Martin Hägglund’s This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom, click here. ¤ FOR A FELLOW democratic socialist to venture a critique…

The last 18 months have seen a surge of public interest in classical texts. In Plato’s dialogue the Republic, readers have found an almost perfect sketch of Donald Trump. In the dialogue, Plato has his main character, Socrates, describe someone with a habit of “bragging speeches,” who amasses wealth…

source Here are some of my super-secret winning strategies from 25 years of building startups. Stay in stealth mode until the last minute The last thing any startup needs is people finding out about it. You can get attention later—that’s easy. You don’t need the distraction of all those customers…

In November of 1945, Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies was published in London. That same month, Charles de Gaulle was elected to lead the provisional government in France, Indonesia proclaimed independence from the Netherlands, the Nuremberg trials began in Germany—and Karl and Hennie…

Many of us have left the big social media platforms; far more of us wish we could leave them; and even those of us who’ve escaped from Facebook/Insta and Twitter still spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the people we care about off of them, too. It’s lazy and easy to think that our…

TL;DR WarpStream is an Apache Kafka® protocol compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of S3. It's delivered as a single, stateless Go binary so there are no local disks to manage, no brokers to rebalance, and no ZooKeeper to operate. WarpStream is 5-10x cheaper than Kafka in the…

The devices humanity built for centuries reduced the effort required to do tasks otherwise difficult or impossible for our human bodies. Bows allowed humans to propel objects further, with more accuracy and strength, than humans could throw rocks. The interaction is simple: hold bow with one hand,…

ZDNET Open-source artificial intelligence (AI) has reached another milestone -- and the cost differences it represents could shake up the industry. On par with o1 On Monday, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek announced the release of R1, the full version of its newest open-source reasoning model, which the…

11 Jan, 2025 In 2020 when we were at the beginning of our startup journey I had a conversation with Erik Goldman where he shared this process, which we used to start Column Tax. I'll be forever grateful for Erik's time, and I thought it worthwhile to capture Erik's wisdom permanently online so…

I beseech you,” wrote Oliver Cromwell, in his letter to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland, “in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.” Cromwell’s pungent entreaty is often cited in conversations about the importance of self‑enquiry and the perils of overconfidence.…

tales from the near future Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison "We’re going to have supervision," says billionaire Oracle co-founder Ellison. Benj Edwards – Sep 16, 2024 11:22 am | 478 Credit: Benj Edwards / Mike Kemp via Getty Images Credit: Benj Edwards / Mike Kemp…

Published inGruntwork · 6 min read·4 days ago -- Make the Switch to OpenTofu It’s been almost exactly a year since OpenTofu went GA. We’d like to step back and take a look at why we got here, how it’s going and what Gruntwork recommends going forward for people still using Terraform. When Terraform…

Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on AI. Part 1 is here. PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview.) ___________ We have what may be an extremely difficult problem with an unknown time to solve it, on which quite possibly the…

PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview.) Note: The reason this post took three weeks to finish is that as I dug into research on Artificial Intelligence, I could not believe what I was reading. It hit me pretty quickly that what’s…

Lenovo’s iconic crimson red TrackPoint nub, which has been going strong for three decades, is a staple of ThinkPad laptops. However, this year at CES, Lenovo announced that it’s ditching the nub on the ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition laptops. It’s a surprising move and although Lenovo’s not removing the…

Before we begin, let me be clear: yes, this is a subjective list. It’s not meant to end the debate — but to start it. These seven papers (sorted by date) stand out to me mostly because of their impact in today’s world. Honestly, each one deserves a blog post (or even a book!) of its own — but let’s…