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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-02 at 02:10

How Israeli startups like Xtend are helping the country's war effort, with ~50% of anti-drone tech used since the October 7 attacks coming from startups (Emily Rose/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-startups-make-global-plans-after-key-role-war-2025-01-31/

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-02 at 00:11

Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf and other experts say startups like DeepSeek and the rise of AI agents may erode the value of LLMs from OpenAI and Big Tech companies (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/31/deepseek-next-generation-ai-agents-may-erode-value-of-large-models.html

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 22:11

Google says APT groups from 20+ countries are using Gemini primarily for productivity gains rather than to develop or conduct novel AI-enabled cyberattacks (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-says-hackers-abuse-gemini-ai-to-empower-their-attacks/

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 20:56

Japan plans to expand export controls on advanced chips, lithography equipment, and cryocoolers for quantum computers, with new rules taking effect by late May (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-31/japan-plans-to-curb-exports-of-chips-quantum-computing-tech

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 19:41

The US NTSB says it will not email news outlets and reporters with updates about the two recent plane crashes, and will instead post updates on its X account (Matthew Keys/The Desk)

https://thedesk.net/2025/02/ntsb-moves-plane-crash-press-updates-x-twitter/

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 19:01

India removes import duties on some components for making smartphones, in a boost for local production efforts and benefiting companies like Apple and Xiaomi (Shivangi Acharya/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-budget-india-axes-import-tax-some-smartphone-parts-boost-apple-xiaomi-2025-02-01/

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 17:46

The EU proposes customs reforms that make ecommerce platforms such as Temu, Shein, and Amazon Marketplace liable for dangerous or illegal products they sell (Andy Bounds/Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/0b2b5c80-40f8-4ec9-bc91-2b4abbb88893

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 16:21

India announces a new $1.15B Fund of Funds for startups with an "expanded scope" compared to previous initiatives, and extends tax benefits for startups (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/india-pledges-fresh-billion-for-startups/

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 15:41

Trump fires Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, who was one of the few remaining holdovers from the Biden administration (Josh Boak/Associated Press)

https://apnews.com/article/trump-chopra-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-47b6b39d0eff05ea0c9bca4eacf55b79

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 14:56

In a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman admitted that DeepSeek has lessened OpenAI's lead and said OpenAI has been "on the wrong side of history" concerning open sourcing (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/sam-altman-believes-openai-has-been-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-concerning-open-source/

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 11:41

A look at the online scam industry in Southeast Asia and how Indians became its targets; 2,358 Indians were rescued from scam compounds between 2022 and 2024 (Ayush Tiwari/Scroll.in)

https://scroll.in/article/1078478/

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 07:36

DeepSeek is supercharging the debate over how much US companies should share about their AI breakthroughs, many of which have been detailed in scientific papers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-manhattan-project-was-secret-should-americas-ai-work-be-too-5638be21?st=iepZkH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 06:21

Instagram and Facebook, which blocked news links in Canada, are hosting hundreds of scam ads pretending to be from news outlets ahead of Canadian elections (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-31/meta-blocked-news-in-canada-ads-for-scams-are-taking-its-place

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 05:51

MLCommons and Hugging Face release Unsupervised People's Speech, a dataset for AI research containing more than 1M hours of audio spanning at least 89 languages (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/mlcommons-and-hugging-face-team-up-to-release-massive-speech-data-set-for-ai-research/

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 05:15

Appfigures: DeepSeek has topped the list of the most downloaded mobile apps across 140 markets, with India accounting for 15.6% of all downloads since launch (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-01/deepseek-app-holds-top-global-spot-in-downloads-led-by-india

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 05:06

California DMV: a total of 4.5M autonomous vehicle test miles were logged in 2024, down 50% YoY, with driverless testing falling 83% YoY to just 552,895 miles (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/autonomous-vehicle-testing-in-california-dropped-50-heres-why/

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 03:11

Web3 domain infrastructure firm D3 Global raised a $25M Series A led by Paradigm, and plans to launch a decentralized network called Doma Protocol (MK Manoylov/The Block)

https://www.theblock.co/post/337728/paradigm-leads-25-million-series-a-round-for-web3-domain-infrastructure-firm-d3-global

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 01:40

Coinbase acquires Spindl, the on-chain advertising platform founded by Antonio Garcia-Martinez, an ex-Facebook staffer and the author of the book Chaos Monkeys (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

https://www.theblock.co/post/338276/coinbase-acquires-web3-adtech-platform-spindl

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 01:16

When asked in an AMA if OpenAI would release model weights and research, Sam Altman said "we are discussing" and "it's also not our current highest priority" (Deepa Seetharaman/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altmans-answer-to-deepseek-is-giving-away-openais-tech-d1a5a9ec?st=gEwH58&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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Written by Techmeme on 2025-02-01 at 01:02

OpenAI told some shareholders ChatGPT had 15.5M paid subscribers in 2024, up from 5.8M in 2023, and usage of OpenAI's API increased seven times (The Information)

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chatgpt-subscribers-nearly-tripled-to-15-5-million-in-2024

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