2025-10-21

DeepSeek drops open-source model that compresses text 10x through images, defying conventions

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence research company that has repeatedly challenged assumptions about AI development costs, has released a new model that fundamentally reimagines how large l [...]

2025-02-27

iPhone 16e review: What's your acceptable compromise?

I’ve been traveling through time this week. Reviewing the iPhone 16e feels at once like I’m visiting my younger self and also forced to live in olden times, especially since I’ve been using an i [...]

2025-09-29

DeepSeek's new V3.2-Exp model cuts API pricing in half to less than 3 cents per 1M input tokens

DeepSeek continues to push the frontier of generative AI...in this case, in terms of affordability.The company has unveiled its latest experimental large language model (LLM), DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, that [...]

2025-01-27

China’s DeepSeek AI assistant becomes top free iPhone app as US tech stocks take a hit

Chinese AI assistant DeepSeek has become the top rated free app on Apple's App Store in the US and elsewhere, beating out ChatGPT and other rivals. It's powered by the open-source DeepSeek V [...]

2025-10-22

Private Internet Access VPN review: Both more and less than a budget VPN

I came into this review thinking of Private Internet Access (PIA) as one of the better VPNs. It's in the Kape Technologies portfolio, along with the top-tier ExpressVPN and the generally reliable [...]

2025-09-17

iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max review: An impactful redesign

For the sake of this iPhone 17 Pro review, I’ve developed a gaming addiction. <br /> I don’t mean triple-A games like Destiny: Rising and Genshin Impact, or even double-A or non-A titles lik [...]

2025-02-06

US lawmakers want DeepSeek banned from government devices

Two US Congress members plan to introduce bipartisan legislation to ban China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot from government devices. The bill’s announcement came after a security expert said DeepSeek not [...]

2025-08-13

Norton VPN review: A VPN that fails to meet Norton's standards

One thing I need to make clear right from the start: this is a review of Norton VPN (formerly Norton Secure VPN, and briefly Norton Ultra VPN) as a standalone app, not of the VPN feature in the Norton [...]

2025-10-22

Kai-Fu Lee's brutal assessment: America is already losing the AI hardware war to China

China is on track to dominate consumer artificial intelligence applications and robotics manufacturing within years, but the United States will maintain its substantial lead in enterprise AI adoption [...]