China-based AI startup DeepSeek has been absolutely liquidating the AI tech bubble since trading opened Monday. Basically, the company’s powerful new AI model, known as R1, seems to demonstrate that filling schools with Anne Frank chatbots doesn’t need to be the massive energy sink that AI industry has long insisted. That’s rattled tech stocks in AI-adjacent… Continue reading Energy Companies Stocks Plummet as DeepSeek Shows AI Doesn’t Need Entire Coal Plants to Cheat on Homework
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After Exploding American AI Industry With ChatGPT Competitor, DeepSeek Releases Image Generator Aimed at Beating DALL-E and Stable Diffusion
It’s got OpenAI on the ropes. Double Tap DeepSeek is coming in for the kill. With Silicon Valley already on its knees, the Chinese startup is releasing yet another open-source AI model — this time an image generator that the company claims is superior to OpenAI’s DALL·E3. Called Janus-Pro 7B, alluding to its beefy seven… Continue reading After Exploding American AI Industry With ChatGPT Competitor, DeepSeek Releases Image Generator Aimed at Beating DALL-E and Stable Diffusion
The Onion Just Deleted Another Image After Realizing It Was AI Slop
Days after The Onion was forced to take down an article’s image after realizing it was AI slop, the satirical news site has been forced to do it again. After being somewhat hilariously called out, the newspaper’s CEO Ben Collins was all apologies on Bluesky when admitting that the latest article — titled “Panicked Pottery… Continue reading The Onion Just Deleted Another Image After Realizing It Was AI Slop
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Going to Deliver a Beatdown on DeepSeek
After several days of silence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has finally collected himself and spoken out about Chinese AI startup DeepSeek throwing Silicon Valley into sheer chaos. The company’s R1 AI model rattled investors this week, demonstrating that it can run circles around competing models from the likes of OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic — at… Continue reading Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Going to Deliver a Beatdown on DeepSeek
Quartz Is Publishing AI-Generated Articles Based on Other AI Slop, Along With Warning They May Be Filled With Errors
G/O Media is once again attempting to use AI to churn out content — while simultaneously warning that anything the AI produces might be littered with mistakes. As first reported by The Aftermath, the G/O Media-owned business news site Quartz is grinding out AI-generated articles under the byline “Quartz Intelligence Newsroom.” Its articles, penned in bland and formulaic text,… Continue reading Quartz Is Publishing AI-Generated Articles Based on Other AI Slop, Along With Warning They May Be Filled With Errors
OpenAI Developer Seethes at Success of DeepSeek
DeepSeek’s new chain-of-thought AI model has Silicon Valley developers seething that a startup from — gasp — China could build something just as good, if not better, than what they’ve come up with, for a fraction of the cost and with far superior energy efficiency. Exhibit A: OpenAI programmer Steven Heidel, who couldn’t help injecting… Continue reading OpenAI Developer Seethes at Success of DeepSeek
Crypto-Obsessed DJ Clowned by Entire Dance Music Community For Playing Trump’s Inauguration
Mouse Murder Members of the electronic dance music [EDM] world have choice words for DJ and crypto bro Justin “3LAU” Blau after he played a set a Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Soon after playing the performance, the 34-year-old prog house DJ waxed prolific in an Instagram post about how much of an “honor” it was… Continue reading Crypto-Obsessed DJ Clowned by Entire Dance Music Community For Playing Trump’s Inauguration
Nvidia Responds to Getting Hit in Face With Shovel
AI chipmaker Nvidia has finally broken its silence following the firm setting a new record for the biggest single-day loss of any company in history. Chinese startup DeepSeek made a major splash over the last few days, claiming that its AI chatbot can rival the best OpenAI has to offer but at a tiny fraction… Continue reading Nvidia Responds to Getting Hit in Face With Shovel
Top AI Investor Says Goal Is to Crash Human Wages
What a noble vision. Waging War Marc Andreessen, cofounder of the massive venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz — which has its fingers in pretty much every pie in tech — has revealed an eyebrow-raising detail in his “techno-optimist” vision of the future. In a recent tweet, the American billionaire investor casually proclaimed that AI must… Continue reading Top AI Investor Says Goal Is to Crash Human Wages
Furious Crowd Tears Waymo Robotaxi Limb From Limb
Brutal. Maximum Car-nage Expensive-looking robotaxis make easy targets, it seems. On Saturday, a self-driving Waymo cab was badly trashed by a crowd, who tore the vehicle to absolute shreds as it idled in the middle of a quiet street in Los Angeles’s Beverly Grove, The Los Angeles Times reports. Local police say they received a… Continue reading Furious Crowd Tears Waymo Robotaxi Limb From Limb