💸 The hype is real: The alarming popularity of Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has sent shares of some public companies in China soaring. There's no evidence that these companies ever worked with DeepSeek to begin with, but hey, you don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Read More
🤔 Meanwhile in the U.S, Microsoft is probing whether DeepSeek used OpenAI's API to train its own, and a new report from Bay Area startup PromptFoo has found that DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model refused to answer 85% of sensitive "prompts," instead offering answers with an "over-the-top nationalistic tone." Read More
🤖 Getting ahead of the problem: Robotics startup Figure is setting up a Center for the Advancement of Humanoid Safety to formalize a plan to ensure safety as robots enter factories to work alongside humans. This could pave the way for the safe introduction of humanoid robots into people's homes one day. Read More
🤖 Humanoid robot safety: Robotics startup Figure is setting up a division called Center for the Advancement of Humanoid Safety to formalize a plan and ensure safety as robots enter factories to work alongside humans. This could set the stage for the safe introduction of humanoid bots into homes one day. Read More
📖 Growing beyond ledgers: French startup Formance has raised $21 million in a round co-led by PayPal Ventures and Portage to advance its tech beyond an open-source, programmable financial ledger into a more ambitious infrastructure play. Read More
⛈️ Here's Tom with the weather: Meteomatics offers precise weather predictions for areas as small as 1 square kilometer, but it's not selling to the TV and news industry. Instead, Meteomatics serves enterprises, and the European startup is gearing up for to expand in the U.S. Read More
