Hours after Italian authorities requested information from DeepSeek about how the company handles user data, the Chinese AI startup’s app is no longer available in Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store….
Texas Monthly – Will This 98-Year-Old Sculptor Ever Find a Home for His Gigantic Concrete Presidents?
On a warm, drizzly morning in August, David Adickes shuffled slowly through his hangar-size studio just northeast of downtown Houston. Leaning on a walker, the artist navigated a labyrinth of half-finished sculptures,…
Tech Crunch – Engineering giant Smiths Group says hackers accessed its systems during cyberattack
U.K.-based engineering giant Smiths Group has confirmed a cybersecurity incident involving “unauthorized access” to its systems. The London-listed company, which operates across multiple sectors including energy, security, aerospace and defense, said Tuesday…
Tech Crunch – Uber-backed mobility fintech Moove acquires Brazil’s Kovi, takes ARR to $275M
Uber-backed Moove, an Africa-born mobility fintech that offers vehicle financing to ride-hailing and delivery app drivers across six continents, has acquired Kovi, a Brazilian urban mobility provider. The value of the deal…
Tech Crunch – ChatGPT’s mobile users are 85% male, report says
The AI bubble hasn’t burst yet, at least when it comes to consumer spending on AI apps. Led by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, overall spending on AI apps jumped to $1.42 billion in 2024,…
Texas Monthly – Billy Strings on What It’s Like to Play Willie Nelson’s Guitar
In early 2023, bluegrass phenom Billy Strings paid Willie Nelson a visit at the latter’s Pedernales Studio. The two were going to cut a duet of a song Strings had just written,…
Tech Crunch – Meteomatics eyes U.S. expansion for its enterprise-focused weather forecasting tools
Martin Fengler knows a lot about the weather. Fengler got his Ph.D. in mathematics, focused on numerical weather prediction, before working for Meteomedia AG, a network of weather stations in Switzerland and…
Tech Crunch – DeepSeek’s AI avoids answering 85% of prompts on ‘sensitive topics’ related to China
AI chatbot DeepSeek has taken the world by storm, topping app store charts and sending Silicon Valley and Wall Street into meltdown. An offshoot of Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, DeepSeek’s cost-to-performance ratio…
Tech Crunch – Microsoft probing whether DeepSeek improperly used OpenAI APIs
Just a few hours after David Sacks claimed DeepSeek used OpenAI’s models to train its own models, Bloomberg Law reports that Microsoft is investigating DeepSeek’s use of OpenAI’s application programming interface (API)….
Texas Monthly – A Rio Grande Valley doughnut shop was on the verge of closing. Then Donald Trump won reelection.
The Edinburg shop owner shared her support for Trump — and special pastries — on social media following the election, garnering a rush of customers. Read: Read More