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A long, costly road ahead for customers abandoning Broadcom’s VMware
The manager said this information was relayed to the customer after a support ticket it filed was automatically moved to Ingram, with Broadcom telling the firm it wasn’t big enough to receive direct support. Ingram’s response times were a week or longer, and in December, Ingram announced a severe... Read more
DeepSeek Tops iPhone Downloads: What to Know About the AI Assistant
China’s AI assistant has officially entered the chat, and it’s putting the U.S. on notice. DeepSeek surged to the top of Apple’s App Store over the weekend, surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT with lightning-fast, highly logical responses. Some users claim its natural language processing, writing quality and reasoning surpass U.S. counterparts... Read more
Chinese AI App DeepSeek Soars in Popularity, Startling Rivals
An AI assistant created by Chinese startup DeepSeek became the number one most-downloaded app in Apple’s US App Store over the weekend, sending shock waves through Silicon Valley and causing the price of major tech stocks to plummet. Nvidia saw more than $460 billion erased from its market capitalization... Read more
Pocket Worlds acquires AI-based UGC team Infinite Canvas
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Pocket Worlds, maker of the popular social gaming app Highrise has acquired Infinite Canvas, an AI-driven user-generated content (UGC) development team. Infinite Canvas has created AI-powered experiences across UGC platforms like Roblox and... Read more
It’s Not the End of 4% APYs — Yet. Today’s Best Savings Rates for Jan. 27, 2025
You can still earn over 4% APY on your savings with today’s rates.  If the Fed leaves interest rates alone this week, APYs may hold steady, too.  A high-yield savings account can still be valuable even if rates fall.  Thinking of switching from a traditional savings account to one... Read more
Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It
The most challenging part of FMVSS 127 is the night-time Pedestrian Automatic Emergency Braking (PAEB) test, which, unlike the EU’s new AEB regulation, needs to work in complete darkness. More than 70 percent of pedestrians hit and killed by motorists are struck at night, according to NHTSA. Protecting pedestrians... Read more
Longtime Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president David Haddad will step down
David Haddad, who has served as Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president for 12 years, is leaving the company. He will depart in April. During his time at the publisher, WBIE saw some major successes with franchises like Batman, Harry Potter and Mortal Kombat. In recent years, however, the publisher... Read more
Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Jan. 27
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Sometimes I’m too practical for the NYT Mini Crossword. 6-Across asked for a “cellphone pop-up,” and I... Read more
Scientists Recreate the Conditions That Sparked Complex Life
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Far from being solo operators, most single-celled microbes are in complex relationships. In the ocean, the soil, and your gut, they might battle and eat each other, exchange DNA, compete for nutrients, or feed on one another’s by-products. Sometimes... Read more
Hugging Face shrinks AI vision models to phone-friendly size, slashing computing costs
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Hugging Face has achieved a remarkable breakthrough in AI, introducing vision-language models that run on devices as small as smartphones while outperforming their predecessors that require massive data centers. The... Read more