Top 10 AI News You Shouldn’t Miss
All everyone could talk about in the technical AI landscape these days is DeepSeek-R1, a Chinese open-source LLM that analysts believe can give major American AI companies a run for their money. – Part 2
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Instagram Account Promotes Holocaust Denial T-Shirts to 400,000 Followers
An Instagram account with almost 400,000 followers is promoting racist and antisemitic t-shirts, another sign that Meta is unable or unwilling to enforce its own policies against hate speech. 404 Media flagged the account to Meta as well as specific racist posts that violate its hate speech policies, but Meta didn’t remove the account and…
Do DeepSeek’s A.I. Advances Mean US Tech Controls Have Failed?
DeepSeek’s A.I. models show that China is making rapid gains in the field, despite American efforts to hinder it.
Journalist Discovers Google Vulnerability That Allowed People to Disappear Specific Pages From Search
By accident, journalist Jack Poulson discovered Google had completely de-listed two of his articles from its search results. “We only found it by complete coincidence,” Poulson told 404 Media. “I happened to be Googling for one of the articles, and even when I typed in the exact title in quotes it wouldn’t show up in…
Tea User Files Class Action After Women’s Safety App Exposes Data
A user of women’s dating safety app Tea has filed a class action lawsuit after the app repeatedly exposed users’ sensitive data, including selfies, photographs of IDs, and more than a million direct messages sent by users. Both data breaches were first revealed by 404 Media. The plaintiff, California resident Griselda Reyes, “seeks to hold…
Elon Musk’s Waste.gov Is Just a WordPress Theme Placeholder Page
A government website created by the Trump administration to “track government waste” has been left unupdated with a default WordPress sample page that includes language about an imaginary architecture firm. “Waste.gov: Tracking government waste,” the tagline for the website, archived here, says. The rest of the webpage, however, is about an imaginary architecture firm called…
DeepSeek AI claims services are facing ‘large-scale malicious attacks’
As its low-cost AI model receives accolades, the Chinese company says ongoing attacks on its services are making it harder for new users to sign up.
ICE Spends Millions on Clearview AI Facial Recognition to Find People ‘Assaulting’ Officers
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently spent nearly four million dollars on facial recognition technology in part to investigate people it believes have assaulted law enforcement officers, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media. The records are unusual in that they indicate ICE is buying the technology to identify people who might clash with…
This Sicko Caterpillar Wears the Bones of Its Victims
Welcome back to the Abstract! Beware: This week’s offerings are not for the faint of heart. There will be blood. There will be gore. There will be death. There will be…honeydew? First stop is a gladiator cemetery, which has got to be one of the most haunted varieties of burial ground. There is very bad…
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