2025-03-18
Commerce Department divisions reportedly ban DeepSeek from government devices
Several Department of Commerce bureaus are said to have told staff not to use DeepSeek's AI chatbot on government devices. "To help keep Department of Commerce information systems safe, acce [...]
2025-03-18
The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury
Sarah Wynn-Williams joined Facebook in 2011 when it was very much in its “move fast and break things” era. A former United Nations diplomat, she had aspirations of helping Facebook boost its stand [...]
2025-03-18
Battle of the dirt-cheap tablets: Amazon Fire HD 8 vs. Walmart Onn 8
Apple’s iPads get all the headlines, and with good reason: They’ve long been considered the best tablets for most people. But none of them come cheap. For folks on a tighter budget, I’ve spent t [...]
2025-03-17
Mistral AI drops new open-source model that outperforms GPT-4o Mini with fraction of parameters
France's Mistral AI launches efficient open-source model that outperforms Google and OpenAI offerings with just 24 billion parameters, challenging U.S. tech giants' dominance in artificial i [...]
2025-03-17
Baidu delivers new LLMs ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 undercutting DeepSeek, OpenAI on cost — but they’re not open source (yet)
Baidu has also announced plans to integrate ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 into its broader ecosystem, including Baidu Search and the Wenxiaoyan app. [...]
