The release of Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s R1 model on January 20 triggered a surprise nuclear event in American tech markets this week. The model’s ability to outperform OpenAI’s industry-leading language model, o1, on key benchmarks at a fraction of the cost implied that artificial intelligence companies could do much more with much less. Stock in Nvidia, which suppli
Andy Hunter decided something needed to be done about the endless rise of Amazon in 2018—the year that the e-commerce giant surpassed 50% of book sales in the U.S. market. “I was concerned at that rate of growth,” says founder and CEO of Bookshop.org. Hunter did a back of a napkin projection and figured that by 2025, Amazon would have secured an 80% share of the U.S. market.
That worried Hunter, who had long worked in the publishing industry, especially when paired with stats showi
“Isn’t AI supposed to make things simpler?” asks a student in ">a new Saturday Night Live sketch.
Technically, the answer is yes. Artificial intelligence is often pitched as a future-forward omni-tool for removing friction from everyday tasks. Of course, the student in this sketch (SNL cast member Sarah Sherman) only asks her question after AI has made one such task even more complicated. An
The Chinese AI company DeepSeek has put the AI industry in an uproar. Denied the most powerful chips thought needed to create state-of-the-art AI models, DeepSeek pulled off some engineering master strokes that allowed the researchers to do more with less. The DeepSeek-V3 and Deep
A small business is cashing in on President Donald Trump’s tariffs with a new viral product: stickers of Donald Trump pointing with the caption “I did that.”
A TikTok post from Atomic Cactus Stickers, with 231.9K views, encouraged viewers to buy the stickers through the app’s shop and place them everywhere from grocery stores to gas pumps. The merch starts at
Tech stocks have erased virtually all their 2025 gains after Chinese startup DeepSeek raised concerns about the competitiveness of the artificial intelligence field with its release of a free, open-source AI tool that founders claim was created for just $6 million. The reaction from all corners has been extreme.
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Those searching for “cute winter boots” on TikTok at the moment might be a little confused. A recent movement of the same name has nothing to do with footwear. It’s a code phrase being used to discuss resistance to President Trump and his immigration policies while skirting censorship or bans on the platform.
Many users have posted videos talking about their “cute winter boots” b
DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence company whose technology has rattled both Silicon Valley and Wall Street, said Monday it would temporarily limit new user registrations due to “large-scale malicious attacks.”
Existing users can log in as usual, it added in an incident report on
Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok’s parent company that would allow the U.S. government to own up to 50% of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok’s U.S. business, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The proposal, submitted last week, is a revisi
There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what about the rest of the rules? When can we really remind someone of our old Venmo request? What happens when someone tries to flirt with you on LinkedIn?