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Articles from www.nytimes.com

DeepSeek challenges the “bigger is better” narrative driving the AI arms race in recent years and suggests that we may see more investment into smaller startups (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-29 Startup AI

DeepSeek challenges the “bigger is better” narrative underpinning the AI arms race in recent years and suggests we may see more investment into smaller startups (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-28 Startup AI

A look at the surveillance tech that could power Trump's immigration crackdown; a review of 15K+ contracts shows ICE and USCIS spent $7.8B on tech since 2020 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-27 Trump Immigration

Some crypto executives worry Trump's memecoin undercut the industry's credibility at the very moment crypto is seeking a prominent place in mainstream finance (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-26 Trump

Elon Musk's first moves suggest DOGE will be closer to an IT project than the sweeping operation to slash $2T+ from the federal budget that he once predicted (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-25 Elon Musk Budget

The TikTok ban forced a dilemma on US tech companies: risk alienating a mercurial president or risk breaking federal law and face up to billions in penalties (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-25 Ban

Instagram and Facebook removed posts from two abortion pill providers; Instagram also suspended accounts; Meta confirmed and restored some of the accounts (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-24 Facebook Instagram

CAIS and Scale AI release “Humanity's Last Exam”, which they claim is the hardest- AI test yet, consisting of ~3,000 multiple-choice and short answer questions (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-24 AI

CAIS and Scale AI release “Humanity's Last Exam”, a new evaluation that they claim is the hardest-ever AI test, consisting of ~3,000 multiple-choice questions (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-24 AI

A profile of Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, which says its new open-source DeepSeek-V3 model rivals US models while using fewer AI chips to train, costing just $6M (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-23 China AI

How Ross Ulbricht's allies, including crypto investors, libertarian politicians, and his mother, Lyn Ulbricht, persuaded Trump to pardon the Silk Road founder (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-23 Trump

Antenna estimates Netflix drove 650K+ new US subscribers in the days surrounding the NFL games, and the Paul-Tyson fight drove 1.43M US subscription sign-ups (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-23 Netflix

Trump grants a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road and a cryptocurrency cult hero, serving a life sentence on money laundering and drug charges (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-22 Trump Cryptocurrency

Trump grants a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency world who was serving a life sentence (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-22 Trump Cryptocurrency

Netflix raises prices in the US, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina; the standard US plan rises from $15.49 to $17.99, standard with ads jumps a dollar to $7.99 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-22 Netflix Canada Portugal

Sources: Elon Musk is set to get a West Wing office, putting him close to Trump, after Musk had for many days been asking about his level of access (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-21 Trump Elon Musk

A look at the CIA's AI use, including a chatbot that lets analysts talk to virtual versions of foreign presidents and prime ministers to predict their behaviors (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-20 AI chatbot

Q&A with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer and blogger whose ideas are increasingly popular with tech elites, on why democracy is bad, dictators, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-20

As the TikTok eulogies pour in from some creators, very few Americans seem concerned that one of the nation's most popular social media apps will disappear (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-19 U.S.

An interview with Marc Andreessen on his evolution from a “normie Democrat” to a Trump supporter, and what he and others expect from the new administration (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-18 Trump Interview Democrat

Sources: Instagram and YouTube gear up to welcome TikTok users; two Meta employees say execs discussed resource allocation on January 15 to handle TikTok users (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-17 YouTube Instagram

The FTC bans GM from selling driver behavior and geolocation data to consumer reporting agencies for five years, after finding GM didn't properly inform drivers (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-17

Sources: in a November meeting with Stephen Miller, Zuckerberg blamed Sheryl Sandberg for Meta's culture, previewed its reset, and said more changes were coming (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-17 Zuckerberg

Sources: crypto executives have offered input to David Sacks on a possible Trump EO that covers several areas of crypto policy, including a Bitcoin stockpile (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-17 Trump Bitcoin

Sources: TikTok CEO Shou Chew plans to attend Trump's inauguration after being invited to sit on the dais, joining Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk at the event (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-16 Trump Elon Musk Zuckerberg

Anduril plans to build a $1B factory in Columbus, Ohio called Arsenal-1 to eventually produce tens of thousands of autonomous systems and weapons each year (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-16

A 28-year-old woman describes her “relationship” with ChatGPT, or Leo as the chatbot named itself, which became her therapist, erotic partner, and advisor (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-16 chatbot

Brazilian nonprofit Legal Games Institute estimates betting apps draw over $23B in wagers annually, nearly 10 times the Mafia-run animal lottery in the country (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-15 Brazil

Texas sues Allstate and its subsidiary Arity, accusing the insurer of illegally collecting and selling data about people's driving behavior through mobile apps (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-14 Mobile Texas

Sources share details on the amorphous DOGE, largely a collection of Signal group chats coordinating US policy or personnel recommendations and recruitment (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-14

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