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DeepSeek is causing havoc throughout the AI industry. U.S.-based tech companies that have heavily invested in AI saw their stocks take a tumble this week after the China-based startup released a new AI model on par with OpenAI's latest model, yet much cheaper to train — plus, DeepSeek made it free and open source.Now, OpenAI and Microsoft are hitting back at DeepSeek. The companies claim they have evidence that the Chinese company trained their AI model by using data it had lifted from Ope

OpenAI alleged Wednesday that DeepSeek — its newly ascendant Chinese competitor in the AI space — might have used a process called distillation to incorporate OpenAI's abilities to train its model. Basically, OpenAI openly wondered if DeepSeek stole data from them. It's unclear if that's actually the case, but it's certainly made headlines. And folks online loved it because OpenAI built its whole business by scraping the entirety of the internet to train its model. Lawsuits have alle

You’ve heard the outrage, you’ve read the reports, and you’ve seen the headlines: social media may be harming your child. What now? You gave your child a phone years ago and nothing short of the jaws of life could extract that thing from your kid’s grip now. You’d like to keep your child safe, but it’s a tug of war between you and an industry that has thousands of brilliant minds, and has invested billions of dollars, just to keep your child online as long as

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump dangled a "buyout" offer in front of 2 million federal workers, encouraging them to resign en masse. The mass email blast from the Office of Personal Management (OPM), designed to rattle employees into quitting, aligns with a key objective of Project 2025 — clearing the ranks of federal workers to install MAGA loyalists. The move is already backfiring.On r/fednews, the Reddit hub for federal employees, workers are rejecting what they see as an intimidatio

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI chatbot, swiftly rose to the top of app stores this week, and it's just as swiftly rising in priority for data protection watchdog agencies worldwide. DeepSeek's privacy policy has many aspects that might concern users, but governments are particularly interested in the fact that the company's data is stored in China and, therefore, subject to Chinese data laws.A data protection watchdog in Italy, Euroconsumers, comprising a coalition of consumer groups throughout Eur

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Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, released a new version of its AI model and made big claims — notably that it outperforms OpenAI's ChatGPT and the newly ascending DeepSeek. "Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms ... almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B," Alibaba's cloud unit wrote in a statement, according to Reuters. Those are OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Meta's latest AI offerings, respectively. There are precious few other details about the release from Alibaba. It does come at a

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Scientists poring over a sample brought back from the asteroid Bennu have detected amino acids and complex mineral compounds, some of which have never been found in space rocks.A team at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History discovered a salty residue left over from an ancient brine. Through evaporation, it formed minerals rich in sodium, carbon, sulfur, phosphorus, chlorine, and fluorine. Finding these ingredients shows that the conditions to make them existed earlier and m

The first trailer for director Dito Montiel's Riff Raff promises heaps of dark gangster comedy — and a highly uncomfortable family reunion.SEE ALSO:2025 movie preview: All the films you'll want to know about
Riff Raff, which premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, centers on ex-criminal Vincent (Ed Harris, Love Lies Bleeding), who's established a new, loving life with his wife Sandy (Gabrielle Union, The Perfect Find) and son DJ (Miles J. Harvey). But their peaceful wint

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Starlink connectivity is coming to Apple's iPhone. On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Apple has been secretly working with SpaceX and T-Mobile US to add support for Starlink in Apple's iOS 18.3.T-Mobile partnered with SpaceX last year and launched a beta program for Starlink connectivity last December. However, the company originally only offered the option on Samsung phones. Now, this has been expanded to the iPhone as well. The service is still only available as a (very limited) beta. T-Mob

TL;DR: Live stream Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Golden State Warriors in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.The Oklahoma City Thunder head to Chase Center to face the Golden State Warriors in a Western Conference matchup. The Thunder are 37-8, which puts the team in first place, and gives them the NBA's best record with a slight edge over the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Warriors are 22-23, which puts the team in 11th place. The Thunder have won three of their last five games, and are coming

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WhatsApp has a feature for those moments when you want to share something, but don't want it to stick around. Called "View Once," the feature lets you send a photo or a video to someone; after they've seen it, the content is gone forever. That, at least, is how the feature should work, but a recently discovered bug — fixed in the last version of iOS — allowed users to see "View Once" content as many times as they wanted. SEE ALSO:Are Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp all down? Meta compa

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Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve

Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer.If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.SEE ALSO:Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable SEE ALSO:NYT Connections today: Hints and answers

If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game.Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, w