Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products
The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve models
A Trump administration official says DeepSeek's new model, expected next week, was trained on Nvidia Blackwell chips, in a potential US export control violation
Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products
The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve models
The EU Parliament backs a report that sets a 16+ age limit for accessing social media without parental consent and holds CEOs personally liable for violations
483 MEPs voted in favor while 92 voted against. If it becomes law, people will likely have to use IDs to log into their profiles, making anonymous accounts impossible. Forums: Bea...
Cloudflare says “a fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved”, after a major outage impacted X, ChatGPT, and others from 11:48am UTC
Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline
Canva launches a foundational design model that generates editable layered designs, expands Canva AI, makes Affinity free for all users, and more
Here's what all this means for creators Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : Affinity's new design platform combines everything into one app Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : Canva wants to be...
Apple doesn't include a charger in the box with the 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro in European countries, making users pay extra; the company cites an upcoming EU law
Here's Why Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge : Apple announces new MacBook Pro with M5 chip Spencer Hart / Stuff : Apple won't include a charger with the new MacBook Pro M5, I th...
YouTube starts rolling out a “cleaner and more immersive” video player, with rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, the web, and TVs
The ‘cleaner’ look is rolling out across mobile, web, and TV. … YouTube is updating the look of the video player to be …
Dell rebrands its PCs as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, each with Base, Plus, and Premium tiers, killing names like XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, and Precision
someone came to me with “I heard it is discontinued, can you help me choosing a new laptop?” — what actually happened: they saw in the news that Windows XP was being discontinued...
Dell rebrands its PCs as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, each with Base, Plus, and Premium tiers, killing names like XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, and Precision
someone came to me with “I heard it is discontinued, can you help me choosing a new laptop?” — what actually happened: they saw in the news that Windows XP was being discontinued...
Apple unveils iOS changes to comply with the EU's DMA: browser choice screen updates, more default app settings, and the ability to delete certain system apps
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac :
Apple unveils iOS changes to comply with the EU's DMA: browser choice screen updates, more default app settings, and the ability to delete certain system apps
https://spyglass.org/... Mark Gurman / @markgurman : I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but I'd venture to guess under 0.1% of customers in the EU are asking for any of this. Thi...
A look at Apple's technical approach to AI, including core model performance, alignment strategies, and adapter and on-device strategy
Apple Intelligence makes a lot of sense when you get out of the AI bubble. Plus, the cool technical details Apple shared about their language models “thinking different.”
Canva acquires Affinity, popular with Mac users for its photo editing and other tools, to take on Adobe, Canva's COO says for “several hundred million pounds”
- Australian unicorn buys British team behind Affinity art suite — Affinity offers alternative tools to Adobe's flagship products
Apple plans to let EU-based iPhone users uninstall Safari by 2024's end and is working on a more “user-friendly” way to let them switch to Android by fall 2025
The US will ban the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 with pulse oximetry again from January 18, after an appeals court denied Apple's request to pause the ban
The Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 with blood oxygen features will be banned from being sold in the United States again …
Apple plans to sell the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 without the blood oxygen feature online starting at 6am PT on January 18 and in Apple Stores on the same day
and save $70 Jay Peters / The Verge : Apple Watches without banned blood oxygen features will go on sale Thursday morning TechRadar : Apple is now selling versions of the Watch Ser...
X now lets X Blue subscribers hide their verified checkmarks, although “the checkmark may still appear in some places” and some features “may not be available”
Social media company X, formerly Twitter, now lets paid users hide their verification checkmarks.
Apple updates the Mac Studio, starting at $1,999, and Mac Pro, starting at $6,999, with M2 Max and M2 Ultra, completing the Mac's transition to Apple silicon
With M2 Max and the new M2 Ultra, Mac Studio is a performance powerhouse in a compact design, while the new Mac Pro combines …
Apple updates the Mac Studio, starting at $1,999, and Mac Pro, starting at $6,999, with M2 Max and M2 Ultra, completing the Mac's transition to Apple silicon
With M2 Max and the new M2 Ultra, Mac Studio is a performance powerhouse in a compact design, while the new Mac Pro combines …