A major Iranian newspaper has published a threat of "retaliation" against German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Politicians have expressed concern, and the German government has issued a cautious response.
Release: datasette 1.0a37 A minor release. Performance and documentation improvements to the permissions system, plus I reverted a cosmetic API change which caused almost every existing plugin test suite to break. Tags: datasette
DeepSeek is already raising again. The Chinese AI lab just closed its first funding round and needs capital for its own data centers and chips to keep its aggressive pricing strategy going. The article DeepSeek needs more cash just weeks after closing its first $7 billion round appeared first on The Decoder .
Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating expenses, predicting that engineers could soon face limits on how much they spend using AI tools.
Google is adding AI image generation to Search's AI Overviews. When no matching image exists on the web, the new Nano Banana 2 Lite model generates one from the search query. The rollout starts in the coming weeks. The article Google Search now generates AI images when it can't find what you're looking for on the web appeared first on The Decoder .
When I first told you about the "OLED Xbox Ally X of my dreams," I had to curb my enthusiasm a bit. That's partly because I hadn't yet tried the handheld myself, and partly because Asus was only planning to sell it bundled with a pair of expensive AR glasses! I'm happy to say both […]
A quiet revolution is brewing in the AI model space. The dominance of proprietary closed frontier models has been cemented The post Open-source AI is just “4 months behind” closed frontier models — and 10x cheaper appeared first on The New Stack .
Google is announcing a big change to the Google Images homepage in honor of the platform's 25th anniversary this week. Instead of a mostly blank page with a search bar, the homepage will soon show you a bunch of images that it thinks you might like before you even start searching. The company says the […]
The New Yorker writer Jonathan Blitzer says thousands of people are being held in tents in the El Paso desert, where inhumane conditions have become a tool to pressure people to accept deportation.
New York has become the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data centers, as Gov. Kathy Hochul argues the AI-driven building boom shouldn’t come at the expense of higher electricity costs, water supplies, or local control.