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Artificial Intelligence

The most underreported and important story in AI right now is that pure scaling has failed to produce AGI

The fact is, pure scaling has not worked. I am not alone in thinking this; the illustrious Stanford Natural Language Processing group reached a similar conclusion, reading between the lines of OpenAI’s recent announcement in the same way I did. In their words, Altman’s recent OpenAI roadmap was “the final admission that the 2023 strategy of OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. ‘“simply scaling up model size, data, compute, and dollars spent will get us to AGI/ASI’) is no longer working!” Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Food & NutritionWellness

The best time to eat breakfast for longevity, according to experts

Later is generally better, and so is getting in some protein and fibre to launch your day. Everyone has opinions on breakfast. Specifically, the best time to eat breakfast – if you’re eating it at all. Though the timing of dinner might be a cultural hot potato, no meal summons up views as divergent as breakfast. And yet many of us skip it entirely, and subside off coffee until lunch.

CryptoFinance

Billionaire Binance founder ‘CZ’ jumps back into crypto with $16 million investment in token airdrop service Sign

Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao makes his first major investment since leaving prison. Zhao has been busy transforming Binance’s venture capital arm into a new entity known as YZi Labs. On Tuesday, YZi Labs announced its first investment: leading a $16 million funding round into a startup called Sign, a platform seeking to simplify token distribution and bring credential verification on-chain—Getty Images

Artificial Intelligence

Why AI Makes Content Planning Out Loud More Important Than Ever

Generative AI stormed into our vocabularies, commoditizing content creation. Speed and quantity are the new watchwords, and senior leaders seem to have resigned themselves to content wastage as the cost of doing business. “Visibility? Meh. Why worry about it when we’re producing so quickly? What’s the worst that can happen? It won’t get used?” Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute

GadgetMobile

Windows 11’s Start Menu finally embraces your iPhone

Apple hasn’t been the most willing partner, but Microsoft is doing what it can to integrate Windows with the iPhone. Bringing together Windows and the Apple iPhone has been an agonizing journey. Microsoft is taking another step to connect the two, providing a consistent UI and file sharing between the two platforms via the Start menu. Image: Microsoft

Artificial IntelligenceCorporate Stories

Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI

OpenAI has been embroiled in several public scandals that appeared to stem from internal disagreements over AI safety, including one incident in late 2023 that saw CEO Sam Altman (above) briefly removed from the company. Another OpenAI safety researcher has left the company. In a post on X, Steven Adler called the global race toward AGI a “very risky gamble.” JASON REDMOND—AFP via Getty Images

Artificial IntelligenceResearch & DevelopmentTechnology

DeepSeek is not just shaking up AI – it’s also shaking up US capitalism

Develops large language models and AI systems. The company positioned itself as developing open source alternatives to proprietary AI models. DeepSeek makes its generative artificial intelligence algorithms, models, and training details open-source, allowing its code to be freely available for use, modification, viewing, and designing documents for building purposes. Image Meta AI

MarketsTechnology

Larry Ellison, Oracle Co-Founder And One Of Richest Men In The World, Saw His Net Worth Dip $22.6 Billion In One Day Due To DeepSeek Selloff

Larry Ellison, the Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) co-founder and one of the richest people on the planet, watched $22.6 billion disappear in a single day on January 27—and he didn’t even have to lift a finger. The selloff was brutal, wiping out 12% of his fortune, all because of an AI startup that barely existed two years ago.

Food & NutritionWellness

Does Hot Lemon Water Have Any Health Benefits?

Influencers claim it helps with weight loss, digestion and more. We dug into whether that’s true. In a video on TikTok, a woman has a lemon in one hand and a mug in the other as she espouses the benefits of her beverage: Within a week of drinking hot lemon water daily, she said, you can expect to burn more calories; become more hydrated; harbor fewer toxins; and have a boosted immune system, better digestion, less bloating, smoother skin and more energy and focus.