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Bloomberg: Docs: Amazon will spend $16B to build two Mississippi data center campuses, up from $10B it announced a year ago, underscoring rising AI infrastructure costs  —  – Project tally includes $7.2 billion for servers and other gear  — Majority of 1,000 data center jobs created will be contractors Lees verder op Tech Meme

Austin American-Statesman: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issues a ban on the use of Chinese-backed apps DeepSeek, Lemon8, Moomoo, RedNote, Tiger Brokers, and Webull on government-issued devices  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a ban on the use of Chinese-backed artificial intelligence and social media apps on government-issued devices Friday afternoon. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoë Schiffer / Wired: Sources: o3-mini launch comes as DeepSeek has galvanized OpenAI staff who feel OpenAI must become more efficient or risk falling behind its newest competitor  —  It’s been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world.  The introduction of its open-weight model … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: CCData: the supply of stablecoins on Solana jumped by 112% in January to a record high of $11.1B, as the launch of the TRUMP memecoin caused a wave of inflows  —  This coincided with the launch of Donald Trump’s memecoin $TRUMP which caused a wave of inflows to the network  —  What to know: Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoë Schiffer / Wired: Sources: o3-mini launch comes as DeepSeek has galvanized OpenAI staff who feel OpenAI must become more efficient or risk falling behind its newest competitor  —  It’s been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world.  The introduction of its open-weight model … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoë Schiffer / Wired: Sources: o3-mini launch comes as DeepSeek has galvanized OpenAI staff who feel OpenAI must become more efficient or risk falling behind its newest competitor  —  It’s been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world.  The introduction of its open-weight model … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wired: Researchers: DeepSeek’s R1 failed to detect or block any of the 50 malicious prompts that were tested; Adversa: R1 is vulnerable to many jailbreaking tactics  —  Security researchers tested 50 well-known jailbreaks against DeepSeek’s popular new AI chatbot.  It didn’t stop a single one. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple canceled a project to build AR glasses that would pair with the Mac; the company is still working on successors to the Vision Pro  —  – Headset group struggles to find path forward after Vision Pro  — Canceled device would have rivaled Meta’s future AR glasses Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest reasoning model that it says is largely on par with o1 and o1-mini in capability, but runs faster and costs less  —  OpenAI on Friday launched a new AI “reasoning” model, o3-mini, the newest in the company’s o family of reasoning models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft creates the Advanced Planning Unit within its Microsoft AI division to help the company understand the societal, health, and work implications of AI  —  Microsoft says that it’s creating a new unit, the Advanced Planning Unit (APU), within its Microsoft AI business division … Lees verder op Tech Meme