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Apple has been working with SpaceX and T-Mobile US to add support for the Starlink network in its latest iPhone update. T-Mobile this week enabled a small number of iPhones as part of its beta test of the Starlink service. Users in the program have access to a new toggle switch in their iPhone cellular data settings to manage the satellite feature. T-Mobile is aiming to support the vast majority of modern smartphones when the service fully launches.

China's DeepSeek is led by Liang Wenfeng, a math geek who caught the investing bug. Liang's hedge fund, High-Flyer, manages around $8 billion, making it one of China's largest quantitative funds. He has been described as a hands-on leader who sometimes sleeps in the office with colleagues as they rush to get projects done. Liang keeps a low profile and was surprised to see DeepSeek turn into a frenzy overnight. DeepSeek's sudden popularity caught the company off guard, making Liang work with his team to address the demand before taking a break for the Lunar New Year holiday in China.

Boom Superconic's XB-1 demonstrator plane went supersonic in the skies over California's Mojave Desert on its 12th test flight. It cleared Mach 1 and stayed supersonic for around four minutes, reaching Mach 1.1. This is the first time a supersonic engine has come from something other than a nation-state. Boom already has customers waiting for its technology when it matures. The company is doing some work with the US Air Force, but it remains focused on making supersonic passenger travel a reality again.

Scientists used an AI model to simulate 500 million years of molecular evolution, which resulted in the code for a previously unknown glowing protein similar to those found in jellyfish and corals. While the simulated protein only exists in computer code, the model used to create it may help in the development of new medicines. The model, called ESM3, doesn't design proteins within the usual constraints of evolution - it is a problem-solver that fills in gaps of incomplete protein code. ESM3 learns fundamental biology and then creates functional proteins outside the space explored by evolution.

This thread details a $6,000 setup for running the full DeepSeek-R1 model locally. The setup requires two CPUs and 768GB of RAM across 24 RAM channels. It doesn't include a GPU, though a GPU can be added for faster generation speed. The build described in the thread can generate six to eight tokens per second, depending on the specific CPU and RAM speed purchased. A video of the build running inference is available in the thread.

Goose is an open source AI agent built to automate tasks. It can be powered by a range of large language models and features a user-friendly desktop interface and command-line interface. Goose is designed to enhance productivity and workflows by taking instructions and then doing the work for users. Its first use cases are engineering focused, but the community has been exploring other non-engineering use cases.

The news that a Chinese startup could build artificial intelligence models as good as OpenAI's at a fraction of the cost tanked the stock market and sent Silicon Valley into a panic. DeepSeek's achievement was a testament to China's ability to innovate, especially when faced with efforts to limit the country's access to the most advanced technologies. The company's rise may be putting it in an awkward position - China has been cracking down on the tech sector in recent years as it is wary of tech companies' growing influence. Investors are hoping the government will refrain from interfering with DeepSeek.

DeepSeek's app shot to #1 on the US App Store recently and is getting around 300,000 global daily downloads. It may be the first non-GPT-based assistant to get mainstream usage in the US. Released on January 11, many users see it as a free version of OpenAI's premium models. This article looks at DeepSeek's rise, why its app is currently topping the charts, DeepSeek's business model, the company's impact on the stock market, and much more. DeepSeek's open source software means that anyone can run the technology on their own computer, so it is unlikely that the US government will be able to block it in any reasonable way.

Two vulnerabilities that open up Macs, iPhones, and iPads to side channel attacks have been discovered in later generations of Apple A- and M-series chip sets.

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Discovery coding is when developers try to understand a problem by writing code first rather than attempting to design processes or thinking beforehand.

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A leaker shared a short video of the new iPhone SE over the weekend. Unlike previous models, the device appears to only have a single rear camera. It is the first iPhone SE model to feature a USB-C port. The device uses Apple's older notched display rather than the Dynamic Island design. Rumors point to a launch around March or April. The video is available in the article.

DeepSeek's R1 model, which is similar to OpenAI's o1, caused a meltdown in the tech industry over the weekend. Many of the revelations that contributed to the meltdown were included in DeepSeek's announcement over Christmas and most of the breakthroughs in V3 were actually revealed with the release of the V2 model last January. DeepSeek-V2 introduced two important breakthroughs, DeepSeekMoE and DeepSeekMLA - the implications of these breakthroughs only became apparent with V3, which added a new approach to load balancing and multi-token prediction in training. The cost of training the model amounted to only $5.576 million, but that excludes the costs associated with prior research, experiments, and data. Many of the decisions DeepSeek made in training its model were due to the constraints of the chip ban - if DeepSeek had access to more powerful chips, it probably would have used a different method.

A new study that tracked millions of diabetes patient outcomes over a period of 3.5 years found that those on GLP-1 medications saw significant improvements across a staggering range of health concerns, far beyond anything clearly linked to weight or blood sugar. The patients experienced improvements in addiction and psychotic disorders and the risk of Alzheimer's was decreased. GLP-1RA drugs act on receptors that are expressed in brain areas involved in impulse control, reward, and addiction, which may potentially explain their effectiveness in curbing appetite and addiction disorders. While the findings are positive, the researchers found some issues that seemed to be exacerbated by taking GLP-1s, including an increase in risk for arthritis and pancreatitis.

Blue Origin is finally a real rocket company with the successful launch of New Glenn. The company's next steps will be to get better at building engines and rockets and flying New Glenn regularly. Its current priorities are rate manufacturing and driving urgency around building the 'machine that builds the machine'. Blue Origin is the world's largest single-donor nonprofit, so it has zero incentive to operate like SpaceX.

Developers looking to build something new on a document database now have more alternatives to choose from. Microsoft has launched a document database platform constructed on a relational PostgreSQL back end. It has suggested that users kick things off by implementing a FerretDB solution on the platform to get started. Microsoft has been increasingly accepting of the open source world. The joint development between Microsoft, PostgreSQL, and FerretDB is a threat to source-available MongoDB and Couchbase.

Developer Evan Hahn proposed an idea in 2022 that could decrease the size of all newly-published npm packages by about 5%. Despite it being completely backwards compatible, improving performance, and reducing storage costs, the npm maintainers rejected the proposal. Hahn had thought the idea was great until he received feedback - implementing his idea would be difficult and would make publishing much slower. The changes would also not retroactively apply to existing packages. After receiving feedback and thinking about the tradeoffs, Hahn felt that the idea wasn't worth it and closed the proposal.

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Meta's Mark Zuckerberg responded to the release of DeepSeek R1 by assembling four war rooms of engineers to figure out how the Chinese hedge fund built the AI. DeepSeek's model may potentially outperform the next version of Meta's Llama AI due to be released in early 2025. Meta is working on deciphering how DeepSeek lowered the cost of training and running its model, finding out what data the Chinese lab used to train its model, and how Meta can restructure its models based on the attributes of the DeepSeek models. Zuckerberg recently announced that Meta would spend as much as $65 billion on AI-related projects in the coming year, just days after OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and others announced a $500 billion White-house backed AI infrastructure project.

Nvidia experienced the biggest market cap drop for any company on a single day in US history on Monday when it lost close to $600 billion in market cap. Its stock price plummeted 17% and caused a 3.1% slide in the tech-heavy NASDAQ. The sell-off was sparked by DeepSeek presenting increased competition in the global AI industry. The Chinese AI lab released a free and open source large language model that only took two months and less than $6 million to build using Nvidia H800s. The release has caused investors to rethink spending on compute.

DeepSeek shows that a lot of the modern AI pipeline is not magic and that cutting-edge AI is not restricted to a select cohort of the San Francisco in-group.

DeepSeek's new multimodal AI models reportedly outperform OpenAI's DALL-E 3.

Google has released the source code for Pebble OS to help the volunteer efforts that have kept Pebble smartwatches alive and running for the past several years.

OpenHaystack allows users to create their own tracking tags for Apple's Find My network.

Several users on X briefly gained access to Grok 3 over the weekend - users managed to get it to respond to a few questions before their access was revoked.

Shunpo is a bash tool that makes directory navigation in terminal faster by providing a system for managing bookmarks and jumping to directories with just a few keystrokes.

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Many in the tech industry have been praising DeepSeek over the recent release of its reasoning model, R1. R1 seemingly matches or beats OpenAI's o1 model on certain benchmarks. It only cost $5.6 million to train, much less than the hundreds of millions of dollars it has taken leading US companies to train their models. The company achieved all this while facing US sanctions that prohibit the sale of advanced chips to Chinese companies. DeepSeek's AI assistant is now the top free app in the Apple App Store.

Oracle, Microsoft, and a group of investors are in talks to take over TikTok's global operations. The deal will allow ByteDance to keep a minority stake in TikTok while the app's algorithm, data collection, and software updates will be overseen by Oracle. Oracle's server network already provides the bulk of TikTok's backbone. President Trump earlier issued an executive order giving TikTok and others a 75-day reprieve from any enforcement action related to the US' requirement that ByteDance divest from TikTok.

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek recently released a reasoning model trained on a GPU cluster a fraction the size of any of the big western AI labs that is better than the current best reasoning models. Reasoning models are able to 'think' about questions, which results in better answers. DeepSeek used a reinforcement learning approach, as opposed to a fine-tuning approach, to train its reasoning model, which resulted in cost and quality benefits. This approach can only really train the model on coding and mathematics, but this might not matter as superintelligence in coding/mathematics might transfer to other domains - this has yet to be demonstrated in practice.

AI's continued growth may ultimately hinge on a new kind of supercomputer that spans entire countries. This will involve stitching together existing datacenters to distribute the workload. The infrastructure required to stitch datacenters together already exists, but it is tuned more for disaster recovery and high-availability than large-scale AI training. Research is already underway to improve the technology, which will help address power challenges by allowing datacenters in different regions to work as one.

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Apple has two main internal priorities for its AI efforts this year: revamp Siri and improve its AI models. Siri is undergoing a big transformation into 'LLM Siri', which will be shipping in the spring of 2026, possibly in iOS 19.4. Apple's AI models have been criticized for regularly including errors, so there is a clear need to improve them. The company has temporarily disabled summaries in iOS 18.3 for select app categories presumably until the backing AI model can be brought up to par.

In the days leading up to the deadline for TikTok to be banned in the US, users flocked to other Chinese apps such as Xiaohongshu and Lemon8. These apps have many of the same features that made TikTok so appealing: an infinite scroll of hyper-targeted recommendations and interactions with friendly strangers. They blend entertainment and networking with sales to monetize their addictive algorithms. This strategy has been very profitable, making China the global leader in social commerce.

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Perplexity's proposal to merge with TikTok now allows for the US government to own up to 50% of the new company upon a future IPO.

Banks are preparing a coordinated move to sell some of the $13 billion in debt they loaned Elon Musk to buy Twitter.

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DeepSeek's efficiency breakthrough suggests that the entire industry has been massively over-provisioning compute resources.

More startups shut down last year than the year before - the trend is expected to continue this year.

Despite 30 years of trying, Fintech companies have still not disrupted any of the big banks and have hardly challenged the key banking model - taking deposits and issuing loans.

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OpenAI has launched a research preview of Operator, a general-purpose AI agent that can control a web browser and independently perform certain actions. Operator is coming first to US users on ChatGPT Pro but will roll out to users on its Plus, Team, and Enterprise tiers eventually. OpenAI plans to integrate Operator into all of its ChatGPT clients. Operator is powered by a Computer-Using Agent that combines the vision capabilities of GPT-4o with reasoning abilities from the company's more advanced models. While Operator can perform many tasks, it currently cannot handle complex or specialized tasks or interact with highly customized or non-standard web interfaces.

One of ByteDance's directors has suggested that a compromise deal to the TikTok ban may be possible. There are a number of alternative solutions that the company is discussing with the Trump administration that fall short of selling the company. It isn't clear what form that compromise might take, but it may allow the company to continue to operate, albeit with a change of control of some kind. ByteDance is optimistic about the dialogue that is emerging between President Trump and President Xi.

The FDA has approved a ketamine-based nasal spray for treatment-resistant depression in the US. The Johnson & Johnson drug, Spravato, can now be prescribed to adult patients with depression who have tried at least two antidepressants without adequate improvement in symptoms, as well as those with major depressive disorder who have acute thoughts of self-harm or suicide. While it's not clear yet why the drug works as an antidepressant, studies show that it can alleviate symptoms of depression as soon as 24 hours after the first spray, with 22.5% of patients achieving remission after four weeks of treatment. Spravato is the first new medication for major depression approved by the FDA in decades.

Lonestar Data Holdings, a Florida-based startup, is set to launch the first Moon-based data center in February. Dubbed the 'Freedom Data Center', the information hub will piggyback on an upcoming lunar lander mission by Intuitive Machines aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Storing data on the Moon offers unique benefits - it provides unmatched physical security and protection and is much more environmentally friendly. The company still needs to overcome enormous technical challenges as deploying a data center on the lunar surface is complex. Lonestar will maintain a ground-based backup at a Flexential facility in Tampa.

Android 14 Beta 1 is now rolling out to Pixel devices. The beta is available as an over-the-air update for those enrolled in the Android Beta Program. It introduces Live Updates, a new class of notifications that helps users monitor and quickly access important ongoing activities. It also adds support for the Advanced Professional Video codec, designed for high-quality video recording and post production. Other changes in the beta are detailed in the article.

Apple's new Advanced Commerce API offers expanded options for managing In-App Purchases. It allows eligible App Store business models to more flexibly manage In-App Purchases within their apps. Full details of the API should be available soon.

The Stargate Project, spearheaded by OpenAI, is an ambitious project that aims to invest $500 billion over the next four years into building out AI infrastructure for the US. While the announcement of the project is an early win for the Trump administration, looking below the surface yields a lot of questions. It appears that previously announced deals and projects will be roped into this new initiative. Stargate will provide a lot of positive media for all of the companies involved while making a lot of money for some partners.

Meta engineers are frantically trying to dissect DeepSeek's models and copy everything they can learn from it. Its management is worried about justifying the massive cost of the company's GenAI organization, especially when every single leader is making more than what it cost to train DeepSeek V3 - and there are dozens of such 'leaders'. DeepSeek V3, trained with a $5.5 million budget, is already ahead of Llama 4 in benchmarks. DeepSeek R1 made things even scarier for the Meta.

OpenAI's Operator can autonomously perform actions for users like shopping for airline tickets, making restaurant reservations, buying flowers, and more.

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Every publicly available flagship AI system scored below 11% on Humanity's Last Exam, a benchmark that includes thousands of crowdsourced questions in multiple formats.

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Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra at its Unpacked 2025 event on Wednesday. The Galaxy S25 series has a new side button that allows users to quickly access Gemini. Customers are able to preorder devices now, with shipping beginning on February 7. Google marked the occasion with a slew of Android updates, including an improved Gemini and new Gemini Extensions for some Samsung apps. Samsung plans to add more AI features in the coming months.

Deepseek's latest R1 model beat OpenAI's o1 on multiple reasoning benchmarks. The Chinese AI lab is fully funded and has no plans to fundraise. It is focused on building foundational technology rather than commercial applications and has committed to open-sourcing all of its models. This article contains an in-depth interview with Deepseek's CEO Liang Wenfeng, which covers Deepseek's ambitions for AGI, why the AI Lab views open source as the dominant strategy, how Deepseek hires and organizes researchers, why Chinese firms settle for copying and commercialization instead of 'hardcore innovation', and how Deepseek plans to ignite more 'hardcore innovation' across the Chinese economy.

China plans to place a free-standing flag designed to 'flap' on the airless surface of the Moon. The flag will have closed-loop wires embedding into its fabric - it will 'flap' using magnetic currents and electromagnetic interactions to create a waving motion. The flag will be installed in late 2026 when Chang'e 7 heads to the Moon. Chang'e 7, destined to land near the edge of Shackleton Crater in the Moon's south polar region, is designed to carry out some serious science - the area it is landing in is suspected to contain water ice.

Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company aka Masdar and Emirates Water and Electricity Company are building a gigascale solar farm project in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It will be coupled with a Battery Energy Storage System to supply energy even when the sun's not out. The project will deliver up to 1 GW of base load power every day, enough to power 750,000 homes. It may require an estimated nearly 10 million panels to complete the project.

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Tailwind CSS v4.0 is now available. It has been optimized for performance and flexibility and has a reimagined configuration and customization experience that takes full advantage of the latest advancements the web platform has to offer. Tailwind CSS v4.0 features a new high-performance engine, a first-party Vite plugin, automatic content detection, built-in import support, new 3D transform utilities, and much more. This post discusses the new features - a comprehensive upgrade guide and an automated upgrade tool is available for existing projects.

BrowserAI is a simple, fast, and open source tool for running large language models in the browser. All of the processing happens locally - user data never leaves the browser. BrowserAI is cost-effective, offline-capable, blazing fast, and developer-friendly. It is perfect for web developers building AI-powered applications, companies that need privacy-conscious AI solutions, researchers experimenting with browser-based AI, and hobbyists who want to explore AI without infrastructure overhead.

Samsung displayed its Project Moohan headset during its Galaxy Unpacked event. The device looks similar to Apple's high-end Vision Pro headset with a hint of Meta's discontinued Quest Pro. The headset runs Android XR, an OS designed specifically for headsets and smart glasses. Samsung plans to launch Project Moohan to developers first. Pictures of the headset from various angles are available in the article.

Apple has removed TikTok from its App Store because of the company's obligation to follow the laws in the jurisdictions where it operates. While President Trump has assured that the law banning TikTok would not be enforced, some experts say the promise offers minimal security. Trump could change his mind at any time or selectively enforce against companies that fall from political favor. Future administrations would almost certainly be free to pursue violations. The financial consequences of non-enforcement could be severe, even for a company of Apple's stature.

MasterCard recently fixed an error in its domain name settings that could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert Internet traffic for the company by registering an unused domain name.

Netflix's cheapest plan is now $7.99 per month, and its priciest subscription costs $25.

The attack, which is designed to lift API keys, session cookies, and other authentication tokens, has potentially impacted hundreds of thousands of individuals already.

Apps that mentioned 'AI' saw 17 billion downloads in 2024.

Google has started construction in Las Vegas and Clark County, where its internet service will be available later this year.

OpenAI will hold a 40% interest in Stargate, a joint venture to develop data centers for artificial intelligence in the US.

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OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle, along with others, have teamed up to build multiple data centers for AI in the US. The joint venture, called The Stargate Project, will create hundreds of thousands of jobs and secure American leadership in AI. It will begin with a large data center project in Texas before eventually expanding to other states. The companies expect to pour up to $500 billion into the venture over the next four years. OpenAI is reportedly aggressively building out a team of chip designers and engineers to create an AI chip for running models - it could arrive in data centers as soon as 2026.

Employer.com has joined forces with YouTuber MrBeast to buy TikTok. They haven't disclosed their all-cash bid amount, and it's not clear if ByteDance is seriously considering the offer. President Trump has signed an executive order delaying any potential TikTok ban for 75 days. Other potential TikTok buyers include Elon Musk, Amazon, Oracle, and a syndicate headed by billionaire Frank McCourt.

Isomorphic Labs' Nobel Prize-winning chief executive officer says that the company will hopefully have some AI-designed drugs in clinical trials by the end of the year. It is working on shortening the drug discovery process from a decade or more to just weeks or months. The company, created in 2021 to commercialize Google DeepMind's AlphaFold AI for drug discovery, announced strategic research collaboration agreements with Eli Lilly & Co. and Novartis AG last year. AlphaFold can model a range of molecular structures and predict how they interact with each other.

Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy so far and created a 417-megapixel panorama. The massive 42,208 by 9,870-pixel panorama took over a decade to create and includes more than 600 photos. It is the largest photo mosaic ever created using Hubble Space Telescope observations. The photo shows 200 million stars, a fraction of the estimated one trillion stars in the system. It will help scientists learn more about Andromeda's history. A video showing highlights from the mosaic is available in the article.

The volume of questions asked on StackOverflow fell quickly after ChatGPT's release in November 2022. The drop continues into 2025 at an alarming speed. The site has not seen so few questions asked monthly since 2009. Its decline actually started before ChatGPT - the release of the chatbot merely sped up the decline. StackOverflow's lack of innovation may have resulted in the initial drop in questions. The drop in questions indicates that trouble is ahead.

Perplexity's Sonar API allows developers to build generative AI search tools into their applications. There is a base version that is cheaper and faster and a pricier version that's better for tough questions. Developers will be able to customize the sources that the AI search engine pulls from. Perplexity claims to be offering the cheapest AI search API on the market. Its models reportedly outperform leading models on a benchmark that measures factual correctness.

Instagram is offering creators $10,000 to $50,000 a month to exclusively post Reels. Meta has also launched the Breakthrough Bonus program, which lets TikTok creators earn up to $5,000 over three months for posting Reels to Facebook and Instagram. The company has extended the maximum length of Reels to three minutes. It is working on a new video editing and creation app designed to compete directly with ByteDance's CapCut.

Stripe has cut about 3.5% of its workforce, mostly in product, engineering, and operations. Despite this, the company plans to continue hiring and increase its headcount by 17% by the end of the year. The payments company is currently valued at about $70 billion in private markets. Stripe's founders have intentionally steered clear of public markets and have given no indication of whether an offering is on the near-term horizon. Total payment volume at the company passed $1 trillion in 2023.

Microsoft will have the 'right of first refusal' when OpenAI seeks additional capacity.

Streaming services commanded 43.3% of all TV viewing in the US in December.

Ross Ulbricht operated the Silk Road marketplace on the dark web between 2011 and 2013.

One in 11 developers reported new layoffs in the past year.

Meta wants to tap into Oakley's cult-like following among various athlete groups.

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