Particle is a (new) news app that relies on AI summarization. I’ve been testing it from the beginning and it is the most reliable AI implementation for news, and the most eye candy. This is a fascinating and well written article by Particle, on how they work on AI
McSeeney’s: “The Trump administration is expected to purchase $400 million worth of armored Tesla vehicles, according to a new State Department document detailing procurement for fiscal year 2025”— NPR Link The American State is a buddy of Musk’s.
Fabric is one of my most loved apps; I've been beta testing for quite some time, and it kept improving constantly. Now it holds everything important to me, from IDs, to documents, notes, ideas, saved articles. I have used almost all note-taking, article-saving, PDF-annotating, second and third brain
The Atlantic, about DOGE (US Department of Government Efficiency, led by the impetuous Elon Musk): DOGE representatives have obtained or requested access to certain systems at the U.S. Treasury, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Personnel Management, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with
UK orders Apple to open up users’ encrypted cloud data, report says | Reuters: Britain has ordered Apple to give it unprecedentedly broad access to encrypted user data stored on Apple’s data cloud, the Washington Post newspaper reported on Friday. The UK government’s “technical capability notice” requires blanket access
Perplexity’s answer to my prompt about DeepSeek R1 being hosted in the US. Perplexity AI has integrated DeepSeek R1 into its platform, offering users access to advanced AI capabilities with a focus on data security and freedom from censorship [1, 3]. This move allows users to leverage DeepSeek’s
OpenAI’s Sam Altman had an AMA session on Reddit, reported by Perplexity: OpenAI’s Future Strategy: OpenAI’s future strategy is poised for significant changes as the company reevaluates its approach to AI development and competition. Key aspects of OpenAI’s evolving strategy include:Embracing a hybrid model that
BBC: Four new laws will tackle the threat of child sexual abuse images generated by artificial intelligence (AI), the government has announced. The Home Office says the UK will be the first country in the world to make it illegal to possess, create or distribute AI tools designed to create
Via Financial Times (paywall): Link
Financial Times (paywall): Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang met US President Donald Trump for the first time at the White House on Friday, as Washington and Silicon Valley weigh their responses to Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough. The meeting between Trump and Huang was to include discussion of AI
The Information (paywall): Paid subscribers to OpenAI’s ChatGPT nearly tripled to 15.5 million last year from 5.8 million a year earlier, The Information reported. Based on pricing for ChatGPT, that growth implies that the popular chatbot was likely generating at least $333 million in revenue per month
Search Engine Journal, about Perplexity hosting DeepSeek-R1 in US and Europe: Aravind Srinivas, Cofounder and CEO of Perplexity, commented on LinkedIn about the controversy: “All DeepSeek usage in Perplexity is through models hosted in data centers in the USA and Europe. DeepSeek is open-source. None of your data goes to