In DeepSeek’s first public appearance since R1’s success, a senior researcher told a state-run conference he was pessimistic about AI’s impact on humanity (Reuters)

Reuters:
In DeepSeek’s first public appearance since R1’s success, a senior researcher told a state-run conference he was pessimistic about AI’s impact on humanity  —  – DeepSeek makes first public appearance in almost a year  &m…

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CoinGecko: crypto market cap falls to $3.5T from October’s $4.4T peak, on track to erase its 2025 gains; crypto ETFs had $700M of net outflow over the past week (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
CoinGecko: crypto market cap falls to $3.5T from October’s $4.4T peak, on track to erase its 2025 gains; crypto ETFs had $700M of net outflow over the past week  —  The stock market didn’t crash this week.  But after a…

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Vast Data, which develops data storage tools, inks a $1.17B AI deal with CoreWeave; Vast Data, valued at $9.1B in 2023, said it reached $200M ARR by Jan. 2025 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

Krystal Hu / Reuters:
Vast Data, which develops data storage tools, inks a $1.17B AI deal with CoreWeave; Vast Data, valued at $9.1B in 2023, said it reached $200M ARR by Jan. 2025  —  – CoreWeave to use Vast’s data storage tools for …

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Former CIA Officer Reveals US Knew Pakistan’s F-16s Were Nuclear-Capable But Continued Arms Supply

Former CIA counterproliferation officer Richard Barlow has made startling revelations about Washington’s complicity in enabling Pakistan’s nuclear ambitions during the 1980s. Speaking to ANI, Barlow stated that successive US Presidents consciously certified Islamabad as non-nuclear despite clear intelligence proving otherwise.He revealed that the CIA had knowledge by the late 1980s that Pakistan

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