Is DeepSeek hiding something?
Rumors say DeepSeek is using American tech — but workers are banned from talking about it. Plus, Netflix’s new button (you’ll want to know about this), tax filing tips, and a robot kidnapper.
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Rumors say DeepSeek is using American tech — but workers are banned from talking about it. Plus, Netflix’s new button (you’ll want to know about this), tax filing tips, and a robot kidnapper.
👨👩👧👦 Chosen family: This number surprised me: About 27% of folks are estranged from their families. So sad. Enter the 11,000-member Facebook group Surrogate Grandparents USA. Donna Skora, a retired paralegal in Florida, started it in 2015. Folks can post ads or respond to others’ requests for surrogate grandparents. It’s helped people like Karen Tautges Malinak, a goat farmer in Minnesota who’s lost touch with her daughters.
Solution the French-governed AI chatbot gave to 5(3+2). (The answer is 25.) The bot, Lucie, also said, “Cow’s eggs, also known as chicken’s eggs, are edible eggs produced by cows.” The bot is offline now. So, to recap, we need to worry about China in the AI race and definitely not France. Noted.
Swatting spree: You’re sitting at home when the SWAT team rushes in, convinced someone inside just committed murder and has explosives set up. A 23-year-old in Wisconsin, along with another guy, hacked into the family’s Ring camera and called the cops with that story. Once police arrived, they livestreamed it all. One of them is already serving 17 years in prison. If you have a Ring camera, turn on 2FA.
Salary for pretty people. Researchers followed 43,000 MBA grads, and the ones seen as conventionally attractive make more than their homely peers. The disparity was largest in management and consulting and smallest in technical fields, like IT and engineering. I’m still deciding if I should be offended …
RadioShack lives: The last store closed in 2017, but the electronics retailer’s back online selling SD cards for dirt cheap. Don’t let nostalgia fool you; that 32GB card for under $6 is as outdated as RadioShack itself and runs at a slow 10MB/s. Faster cards (30MB/s) are $19. Here’s a better option on Amazon for $20.
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Last laugh: Trolls helped Amy Schumer figure out she has Cushing’s syndrome. The condition makes your body produce too much cortisol (the stress hormone), causing facial swelling known as “moon face.” Guess online haters are good for something.
Bet he’s a peach to be around right now: Mark Zuckerberg’s got four “war rooms” going at Meta HQ to figure out DeepSeek’s secrets. Two teams are focused on training and operating costs; the other two are digging into how the data might level up Meta’s next Llama model. Think about this: All the U.S.-based AI companies just got a kick in the butt to do better.
Picture this: DeepSeek says its AI image generator is better than DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion. It used 72 million AI images, along with a crapload of real-world data, to train Janus-Pro-7B. I don’t think it’s that great. Try it here on a phone or computer you don’t use all the time. There’s no telling what the Chinese are doing in the background.
🇨🇳 Did DeepSeek lie? Probably. The Chinese-run AI company sent American tech stocks crashing after reporting it only cost ‘em $5.6 million to chat up to ChatGPT and all the rest. Nvidia lost $600 billion (down 17%) on Monday, the worst drop since March 2020. Turns out that was some creative math. DeepSeek spent that much training its V3 model but has invested $500 million in its tech since 2023. For the record, that’s still pretty low compared to U.S. companies, which spent upwards of $50 billion. ICYMI, here’s more about DeepSeek.
Paid over six months to TikTokkers willing to jump ship and go Instagram-exclusive. Meta’s contracts, which were sent to certain influencers with 1 million followers or more, are broken down into tiers (paywall link). The top one pays $50,000 a month to post 10 Reels between 15 seconds and 3 minutes in length. I’d take that hourly rate.