Category: Industry News

California Sees 50% Drop in Autonomous Vehicle Testing: Key Reasons Behind the Decline

California Sees 50% Drop in Autonomous Vehicle Testing: Key Reasons Behind the Decline

supportFeb 2, 2025

California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has reported a significant decline in self-driving vehicle testing, logging 4.5 million test miles in 2024, a 50% drop…

How OpenAI Leveraged Subreddits to Test the Power of AI Persuasion

How OpenAI Leveraged Subreddits to Test the Power of AI Persuasion

supportFeb 2, 2025

OpenAI has utilized the subreddit r/ChangeMyView to assess the persuasive capabilities of its new reasoning model, o3-mini. This subreddit, known for controversial discussions, provides a…

Sam Altman: OpenAI's Missteps on Open Source and the Future of AI Innovation

Sam Altman: OpenAI’s Missteps on Open Source and the Future of AI Innovation

supportFeb 2, 2025

OpenAI recently hosted a Reddit AMA with CEO Sam Altman, discussing the company’s future amid rising competition from firms like China’s DeepSeek. Altman acknowledged the…

Anjney Midha of Mistral and a16z: DeepSeek Can't Satisfy AI's Insatiable GPU Demand

Anjney Midha of Mistral and a16z: DeepSeek Can’t Satisfy AI’s Insatiable GPU Demand

supportFeb 2, 2025

DeepSeek is emerging as a significant player in the AI sector with its Coder V2 model, which rivals OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo in coding tasks. Anjney…

Revolutionizing AI Research: MLCommons and Hugging Face Launch Extensive Speech Dataset

Revolutionizing AI Research: MLCommons and Hugging Face Launch Extensive Speech Dataset

supportFeb 2, 2025

MLCommons has partnered with Hugging Face to launch the Unsupervised People’s Speech dataset, one of the largest public voice recording collections for AI research, featuring…

Data Risks in China: Why Hundreds of Companies are Blocking DeepSeek

Data Risks in China: Why Hundreds of Companies are Blocking DeepSeek

supportFeb 1, 2025

DeepSeek, a Chinese chatbot, has surged in popularity in the U.S., topping Apple and Play Store rankings. Major cloud providers like Microsoft are integrating it,…

Guo’s Conviction Partners Welcomes Mike Vernal as General Partner and Secures $230M Fundraise

Guo’s Conviction Partners Welcomes Mike Vernal as General Partner and Secures $230M Fundraise

supportFeb 1, 2025

In mid-2022, Sarah Guo left Greylock to launch her AI-focused fund, Conviction Partners, and has now welcomed former Sequoia partner Mike Vernal to join her…

Anthropic CEO: DeepSeek Demonstrates Success of US Export Regulations

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Seeks to Evade Deposition in High-Stakes OpenAI Copyright Lawsuit

supportFeb 1, 2025

In the ongoing copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to avoid a deposition as the Authors Guild seeks to compel his…

CFPB Hits Fintech Giant Wise with Fines Over Deceptive Fee Practices

CFPB Hits Fintech Giant Wise with Fines Over Deceptive Fee Practices

supportFeb 1, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has fined U.K.-based remittance service Wise nearly $2 million for misleading advertising and inadequate customer transparency regarding fees and…

Apple Settles $20M Watch Battery Swelling Lawsuit, Maintains Innocence in Wrongdoing Claims

Apple Settles $20M Watch Battery Swelling Lawsuit, Maintains Innocence in Wrongdoing Claims

supportFeb 1, 2025

Apple has agreed to pay $20 million to settle a class-action lawsuit regarding battery swelling issues in early Apple Watch models, dating back to 2019.…