News of Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s success continues to send ripples throughout the West, tanking Nvidia’s stock valuation, spawning endless discourse, and embarrassing President Trump. Now, even American startup gurus are starting to jump ship. Pat Gelsinger, the former CEO of tech superpower Intel, says that after seeing DeepSeek’s tech, his new church startup —… Continue reading Former Intel CEO Says After Seeing DeepSeek, He’s Done With OpenAI
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White House Caught With Pants Down As Medicaid Funding Portals Go Down
Image by Erik McGregor / LightRocket via Getty / Futurism President Donald Trump’s White House insists in a new memo that its federal funding freeze shouldn’t affect anyone’s Medicaid — but state officials seem to be suggesting otherwise. Earlier in the week, the White House Office of Budget and Management (OMB) sent a memo to all federal agencies temporarily… Continue reading White House Caught With Pants Down As Medicaid Funding Portals Go Down
Trump Responds After DeepSeek Humiliates His Splashy AI Announcement
A “wake-up call.” Deep Trouble President Donald Trump has responded to the rapid rise of the Chinese startup DeepSeek, whose recently released AI model has him and his Silicon Valley pals looking like a bunch of chumps. “The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that… Continue reading Trump Responds After DeepSeek Humiliates His Splashy AI Announcement
Energy Companies Stocks Plummet as DeepSeek Shows AI Doesn’t Need Entire Coal Plants to Cheat on Homework
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
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
Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government
Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new administration, but the US federal government is already rolling out the Twitter playbook to manage its spending and personnel. Just like Musk did when he took over the social media platform, Trump’s team is attempting to drastically reduce the number of… Continue reading Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management
Centibillionaire Elon Musk’s takeover of the former US Digital Service—now the United States DOGE Service—has been widely publicized and sanctioned by one of President Donald Trump’s many executive orders. But WIRED reporting shows that Musk’s influence extends even further, and into an even more consequential government agency. Sources within the federal government tell WIRED that… Continue reading Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management
Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ Order Has Mapmakers Completely Lost
Altogether, around 10 attempts to change the gulf’s name have been reverted over the past week on OpenStreetMap. Several contributors have contended that OSM should wait for common usage in society to change before making an edit to the main name of the gulf. “OSM’s primary goal is to reflect what people on the ground… Continue reading Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ Order Has Mapmakers Completely Lost
Waymo begins testing robotaxis on LA freeways
Waymo robotaxis have become a common sight on Los Angeles surface streets. Now those driverless vehicles are heading to the city’s network of freeways. The Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle technology company said Tuesday it will begin testing its fleet of robotaxis on the Los Angeles freeway system, including Interstates 10, 110, 405, and 90. These robotaxis… Continue reading Waymo begins testing robotaxis on LA freeways
GM expects to save up to $1 billion on Cruise costs
General Motors expects to save up to $1 billion annually by ending its Cruise robotaxi development program, CEO and Chair Mary Barra said Tuesday during the company’s earnings call. The estimate comes nearly two months after the automaker said it would no longer fund Cruise, its self-driving subsidiary that aimed to commercialize robotaxis. “GM has… Continue reading GM expects to save up to $1 billion on Cruise costs