Apple has released iOS 18.3, with the newest update few updates focusing on a few Apple Intelligence features, including how notification summaries are handled.An iPhone running iOS 18The beta testing cycle for iOS 18.3 has concluded with the formal release of the operating system update to iPhones around the world. The third major update for iOS 18, it helps push forward Apple Intelligence's features, but not to the same extent as previous releases.The first Apple Intelligence wave concentrated on basic features, while iOS 18.2 brought with it more graphical changes. For iOS 18.3, things are somewhat muted. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Having delivered two excellent co-op games inA Way OutandIt Takes Two, Hazelight Studios is attracting a great deal of attention with its next outing,Split Fiction.Revealed in December, the action-adventure title see players stepping into the shoes of two sisters who are also writers and jump back and forth between each others sci-fi and fantasy worlds.And on the road to launch not long from now, the game has hit a major milestone. Hazelight Studios boss and game director Josef Fares has revealed on Twitter thatSplit Fictionhas now gone gold, which means development on the title has wrapped up. Any work that the studio does now on polishing the game further will likely show up in the form of pre-release or day one patches.A new gameplay trailer offering another look at the titles action-packed co-op gameplay was also recently revealed. Check it out through here.Split Fictionlaunches on March 6 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Check out its PC requirements through here.And also #splitfiction has now gone gold. So get ready on march 6 Josef Fares (@josef_fares) January 27, 2025

The Coalition has announced that People Can Fly, who worked on Gears of War: Judgment, has returned for Gears of War: E-Day. The studio will serve as a co-development partner like with the original trilogy.People Can Fly CEO Sebastian Wojciechowski stated on the companys website, Returning to collaborate on the next chapter of this legendary saga is both a privilege and an exciting opportunity to build upon the intense, visceral action and rich storytelling that fans have come to love. We are deeply grateful for our partners trust and support on this journey.Development director Guillaume Barry also noted that the team, consisting of dedicated Gears of War fans, is pouring everything we have into creating an experience that will exceed expectations. While we cant share more just yet, were eager for the day when we can show all the exciting things weve been working on.Mike Crump, studio head at The Coalition, added, Gears of War: E-Day is not just our next major game; its a return to what makes Gears of War games special and authentic. Were pleased to be partnering with the talented folks at People Can Fly who have been a part of our franchises legacy for so long.As a prequel, the story focuses on Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago after Emergence Day occurs. As COG soldiers, they must battle against the Locusts and attempt to protect Sera. It takes place 14 years before the first game, though The Coalition confirmed its the next mainline title and not a spinoff.Players will explore a new location, the City of Kalona, across a linear campaign spanning multiple days, with a more horrifying atmosphere akin to the original. Of course, fans can also look forward to multiplayer, while Unreal Engine 5 offers ray tracing, improved animations, and extensive destruction.Gears of War: E-Day is coming to Xbox Series X/S and PC, with rumors claiming it could launch this Fall. Stay tuned for updates in the meantime.

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn MoreDeepSeek, the fast-growing Chinese AI company, is shaking up global technology yet again. Just as the rapid rise of the companys frontier AI models triggered a sell-off of U.S. artificial intelligence stocks, the company launched a brand new product:Janus Pro 7B, anopen-sourcevision-based AI model. (You can try a demo right here.)This unexpected release from DeepSeek intensifies investor worries about Chinas growing power in AI and further pressures American tech companies. The company curiously released Janus Pro 7B today as U.S. AI stocks plunged, a timing that appears to be deliberate and designed to highlight the Beijing-based firms challenge to Silicon Valley.DeepSeeks latest launch follows its release last week of the frontier R1 large language model. Industry experts were largely impressed by R1s efficient and strong performance. The R1 model immediately raised concerns that China is quickly advancing in AI and could disrupt the current leaders in the field. Markets reacted quickly. Nvidia, a key maker of AI chips, saw its stock price fall sharply. Other major AI companies also experienced stock drops as investors reassessed the competitive landscape with DeepSeek emerging as a strong new player.Efficiency is the new king: Why Janus Pro 7B changes everythingDeepSeek is now extending its reach beyond language processing into the critical domain of computer vision with Janus Pro 7B. According to the technical paper released alongside the model, Janus Pro 7B is engineered for efficiency and versatility, excelling in a range of visual tasks from generating photorealistic images to performing complex visual reasoning. Janus [Pro] is a series of efficient vision models, the DeepSeek research team states in their paper, aiming to achieve a balance between performance and computational cost. We present Janus-Pro-7B, a 7 billion parameter vision modelachieving state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of vision tasks.This emphasis on efficiency is a crucial differentiator for enterprise customers. Unlike some of the largest and most resource-intensive AI models, Janus Pro 7B, with its 7 billion parameters, is designed to deliver high-level performance without demanding vast computational resources.This efficiency could significantly lower the barrier to entry for businesses looking to integrate advanced vision AI into their operations. For companies ranging from startups to multinational corporations, the prospect of deploying sophisticated visual intelligence without incurring exorbitant infrastructure costs is increasingly attractive.The research paper further details the breadth of the models capabilities, stating, Janus-Pro-7B demonstrates strong performance in various vision tasks, including image generation, visual question answering, and image captioning.This multi-faceted functionality is particularly appealing for businesses seeking to leverage AI across diverse applications. Imagine a global retailer utilizing Janus Pro 7B to automate the creation of marketing visuals, respond to customer inquiries about product appearance, and generate detailed and visually rich descriptions for online product listings all powered by a single, streamlined AI model. The potential for streamlining workflows, enhancing customer engagement, and improving operational efficiency is substantial.Charts released by DeepSeek show performance metrics for its new Janus Pro 7B vision AI.(Left)Janus Pro 7B achieves high average performance with fewer parameters than many other multimodal models.(Right)The model also scores top accuracy on text-to-image generation benchmarks, outperforming competitors. (Credit: DeepSeek)DeepSeeks one-two punch: R1 language model followed by vision AI intensifies market anxiety and competitive pressureThe timing of the Janus Pro 7B launch amplifies its impact. Coming on the heels of the R1 model and the ensuing market turbulence, it reinforces the narrative of DeepSeek as an innovator capable of disrupting the established order in AI.Last weeks initial market jitters, triggered by R1s release on a holiday Monday, escalated into full-blown panic over the weekend as leaked benchmarks and online demonstrations highlighted the models impressive capabilities. And today, as the tech stock sell-off intensified, DeepSeek introduced Janus Pro 7B, further amplifying the sense of urgency and competitive pressure felt by U.S. AI companies.Markets are reacting viscerally to DeepSeek, not just to another AI competitor. They sense a rule change. For too long, AIs story was relentless scaling: bigger models, more parameters, higher costs. This favored giants, mostly in the West. DeepSeek, with Janus Pro 7B and R1, breaks this mold. They show nimble, efficient models can overperform. Its an architectural shift. AI advantage may shift from server farm size to smart innovation and broad distribution.Janus Pro 7Bs open-source nature amplifies this disruption. Like open-source movements before, this increases access to advanced AI, unlike closed proprietary models. Enterprises outside Big Tech gain: cutting-edge AI without vendor lock-in or high fees. For AI powerhouses, DeepSeek poses a direct threat. Can their proprietary, premium models survive free, high-quality alternatives? The market sell-off suggests investors doubt it.For enterprise technology decision-makers, the message is increasingly clear: the AI landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation, and DeepSeek represents a significant new force.Ignoring the implications of Janus Pro 7B, and DeepSeeks broader strategic approach, would be a critical oversight. Businesses must now assess the opportunities and challenges presented by this new wave of AI innovation, even amidst ongoing market volatility and geopolitical uncertainties. 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Trump says hell put tariffs on imported chips in the near futureTrump says hell put tariffs on imported chips in the near future / Calling Bidens CHIPS Act incentives ridiculous, he claimed companies will build new plants in the US to avoid higher taxes and called DeepSeeks AI a positive.By Richard Lawler, a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Jan 28, 2025, 1:38 AM UTCShare this story Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty ImagesWithout going into detail about what might happen to the $52 billion in subsidies from the CHIPS Act under his administration, Donald Trump said tariffs on foreign computer chips, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals are coming in the near future. He also namechecked DeepSeeks AI releases, saying, ...coming up with a faster method of AI and less expensive, thats good. I view that as a positive if it is fact and it is true, and nobody knows, but I view that as a positive.In the speech at the House GOP Issues Conference held at the Trump National Doral Resort in Miami Monday afternoon, he said that to return the production of these goods to the US, we dont want to give them billions of dollars like this ridiculous program Biden has. Instead the incentive for manufacturers will be they will not want to pay a tax.This is despite the outcome of the trade war with China during his first administration that expanded Chinas trade surplus with the US between 2018, when the tariffs began, and 2021. A CTA report from last year cited by TechCrunchHe also said that we will have more plants built in the next short period of time than ever before because the incentive will be there, however its unclear how many of those will be like The Stargate Projects first datacenter in Texas, which was in the works well before the start of his administration. Last fall, the Commerce Department said that by then, it had announced over $30 billion in proposed CHIPS private sector investments spanning 23 projects in 15 states with 16 new manufacturing facilities in the works.He also said of DeepSeek that instead of spending billions you will spend less and hopefully come up with the same solution, even as OpenAI, Softbank & co. say theyre preparing to spend $500 billion on AI datacenters.Most PopularMost Popular

Apple updated its AirPods firmware support page today with a more detailed step-by-step guide on how to upgrade the AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max with their latest firmware, according to MacRumors. While most Apple devices, like the iPhone or Apple Watch, can start updates in the settings, with the AirPods you have to wait for the update process to happen on its own.The AirPods firmware support page still includes Apples original summary of the conditions needed for the update process, but has now added an expanded step-by-step guide to help ensure the process happens automatically. Although most of the steps have been previously known, there are some specific suggestions added, including charging with a USB cable and waiting at least 30 minutes for the update to happen. Those clarifications may help you if youve been struggling to get firmware updates to work.The following steps are specifically for the AirPods and AirPods Pro. The instructions for the AirPods Max are nearly identical, but with the charging case steps omitted.Make sure that your AirPods are in Bluetooth range of your iPhone, iPad, or Mac thats connected to Wi-Fi.Put your AirPods in their charging case and close the lid.Plug the charging cable into your charging case, then plug the other end of the cable into a USB charger or port.Keep the lid of the charging case closed, and wait at least 30 minutes for the firmware to update.Open the lid of the charging case to reconnect your AirPods to your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.Check the firmware version again.There are still no sounds or pop-ups on a connected device letting you know when your AirPods firmware has been successfully updated. After following these steps and waiting for at least half an hour, you can check your AirPods firmware version manually by opening the Bluetooth settings of your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, clicking the Info button next to the name of your AirPods, and then navigating to the About section.If its still showing a firmware version thats older than the latest versions Apple lists on its support page, the company recommends resetting the AirPods and then going through the firmware update steps again.

I Switched From Windows To Linux For 1 Month Here Is What Happened 0 like January 27, 2025Share this postAuthor(s): Artem Shelamanov Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium.Long story short: my PC broke, and while it was on repairs, I had to use my laptop with nothing but Linux on it. I used Windows 11 on my PC for most of the tasks, and my laptop was only for taking notes or going on work trips. But now, I had to use Linux without any compromises. I work as a data scientist, and I use my PC a lot both during work and leisure time. Thats why this experiment may be interesting for other data scientists considering switching.I used Pop!_OS, which is basically Ubuntu with some things preinstalled (like NVIDIA drivers it was always a pain to set them up). I used it for browsing, gaming, studying, machine learning and desktop/web development.In this article, I will share the main results of this change did it make my life easier or harder, what was different now and where I encountered problems. Finally, I will answer the question can you switch to Linux and do everything what you did on Windows, or are there some things which are irreplaceable, and you have to use Windows Read the full blog for free on Medium.Join thousands of data leaders on the AI newsletter. Join over 80,000 subscribers and keep up to date with the latest developments in AI. From research to projects and ideas. If you are building an AI startup, an AI-related product, or a service, we invite you to consider becoming asponsor. Published via Towards AITowards AI - Medium Share this post

Welcome to9to5Neural.AI moves fast. We help you keep up.Last week we mentioned that American AI firms are seeing deep competition from DeepSeek R1 out of China. Today DeepSeeks impact has reached Wall Street as NVIDIA stock drops 17%. Lets take a closer look at DeepSeek, NVIDIAs response, and the bigger picture for AI development.What is DeepSeek?DeepSeek is simply a Chinese AI firm born out of a hedge fund called High-Flyer. Liang Wengeng founded the company in 2023, and its based in Hangzhou,Zhejiang, China. Wengeng co-founded High-Flyer seven years earlier, focusing on AI investments.DeepSeek began training its models before the U.S. government restricted Chinas access to American AI chips. For this reason, the company is expected to have a healthy supply of NVIDIA GPUs from before restrictions were imposed.Still, DeepSeek has needed to operate under the constraints of limited access to additional NVIDIA hardware. This constraint may have forced DeepSeek to focus on the innovation it touts with its V3 model. What DeepSeek has shown is the ability to compete with OpenAIs brand new o3 model. ChatGPT o3 is the successor to o1, possibly because O2 is an established UK phone carrier. Anyway, DeepSeek has created a model that is virtually as competitive while requiring dramatically fewer resources and costing a small percentage of the cost to run compared to OpenAIs chatbot.DeepSeek ended up here by focusing on distilling existing models rather than spinning up models using the same strategy as American companies. Its fair to say that DeepSeek heavily benefits from the work that has thus far been done by the AI firms we already know. At the same time, DeepSeek has necessarily needed to focus on optimizing existing models through distillation due to U.S. restrictions on exporting American AI chips to China.DeepSeek training methodologyThats only the story so far. What happens next is still to be determined, but I think we can bet on OpenAI and other American AI firms prioritizing model distillation to bring operation costs down and stay competitive. In other words, DeepSeek hasnt achieved anything American AI firms cant replicate. Its just a matter of prioritizing model efficiency now that the competition has arrived.But prioritizing model distillation isnt the only thing that helped DeepSeek arrive in the AI race. DeepSeek has also relied on AI training AI. American AI firms still use human-in-the-loop training that puts an importance on human-labeled datasets.The benefit of the AI-training-AI method is that training is much more scalable as it requires less human input. The challenge, however, is that errors can be amplified. It also makes AI alignment checks more difficult. Alignment is another way of saying that our AI models reflect our values and operate as we intend.Supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback is what makes our AI models provide unbiased responses. In other words, we make sure the data is good.While I dont expect a violent shift in how American AI firms ensure data quality, I do believe well see sizable movement toward AI training AI. This was always the goal for OpenAI and similar firms; DeepSeek may have just applied pressure to go there sooner.$6 million tanks $600 billionIf you follow DeepSeek, youll likely come across a $6 million figure that comes from their research paper covering its newest model. The claim is that V3 was developed for under $6 million using less capable NVIDIA H800 hardware. However, this claim can be true while also omitting investment costs associated with training earlier models not to mention the NVIDIA supply acquired prior to U.S. AI chip export restrictions.Another figure to analyze: $600 billion. Thats the amount of market cap that NVIDIA lost today alone. Thats the result of investors being spooked by DeepSeek models being cheaper to train and cheaper to run, meaning less opportunity than expected for NVIDIA growth.I think this is extremely shortsighted and an overreaction. My thinking is this: DeepSeek has demonstrated a great efficiency in how current AI models can be developed. Great! That may shrink the time it takes to develop the next major evolution of AI models.In other words, throwing more NVIDIA GPUs at the problem is likely still the answer to pushing forward AI technology we might just get further, faster now. Remember: the AI race is forward, not to where we are now.AI isnt a solved problemWhich leads to OpenAIs massive Stargate Project. Stargate is basically meant to be a building in Texas thats packed to the gills with compute. Say future AI models can achieve more with less compute. That just means that these AI models will be able to accomplish even more with the existing amount of compute that Stargate targets.Theres a real gap between where these firms want to go with AI and where we are today. The impact of DeepSeek may just be it forced other AI firms to prioritize different goals for now. Well need to see what comes out of DeepSeek next to have a fair sense of whether or not theyre a more innovative firm. A few other notes.NVIDIA found the silver lining in DeepSeeks work with this statement issued today:DeepSeek is an excellent Al advancement and a perfect example of Test Time Scaling. DeepSeeks work illustrates how new models can be created using that technique, leveraging widely-available models and compute that is fully export control compliant. Inference requires significant numbers of NVIDIA GPUs and high-performance networking. We now have three scaling laws: pre-training and post-training, which continue, and new test-time scaling.In other words, were building a better airplane mid-flight, but we still need jet fuel to fly.NVIDIA is still up 93% year-over-year and 1,782% over the last five years.OpenAI will be much more generous with ChatGPT o3-mini when it arrives due in large part to DeepSeeks competition.President Trump addressed the DeepSeek effect on Monday, per Reuters:The release of DeepSeek, AI from a Chinese company should be a wakeup call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win.Ive been reading about China and some of the companies in China, one in particular coming up with a faster method of AI and much less expensive method, and thats good because you dont have to spend as much money. I view that as a positive, as an asset.I view that as a positive because youll be doing that too, so you wont be spending as much, and youll get the same result, hopefully.We always have the ideas. Were always first. So I would say thats a positive that could be very much a positive development. So instead of spending billions and billions, youll spend less, and youll come up with, hopefully, the same solution.The AI race is on, folks, and the AI industry is the new NASA.DeepSeek has slowed down new account creation today due to a large-scale cyber attack impacting the service. This message currently reads across the top of chat.deepseek.com:Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeeks services, registration may be busy. Please wait and try again. Registered users can log in normally. Thank you for your understanding and support.However, we were able to create a new account after a few hours of trying on Monday. You may also have seen a viral social media post claiming that installing DeepSeek on iOS gives the Chinese AI firm deep access to personal data on your iPhone, including email and messages. Fortunately, thats not how iOS architecture functions. You can even create an account using Sign in with Apple, which can generate a throwaway email address for additional security. However, DeepSeek does have access to what you input into the chatbot.Also, DeepSeek still suggests talking about math, coding, and logic problems instead when asked about what happened in 1989 at Tiananmen Square.More on the latest in AI developments in the next edition of9to5Neural only on 9to5Mac! Read the previous issue here.Top iPhone accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. 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Mouse MurderMembers of the electronic dance music [EDM] world have choice words for DJ and crypto bro Justin "3LAU" Blau after he played a set a Donald Trump's second inauguration.Soon after playing the performance, the 34-year-old prog house DJ waxed prolific in an Instagram post about how much of an "honor" it was to play for 30 minutes at Trump's Starlight Ball.Almost immediately, the founder of the music-as-token platform Royal was resoundingly dunked on. Chief among Blau's haters was the similarly numerically-monikered Deadmau5, the mouse-masked industry veteran known for his scathing rebukes of more or less everything."Not a single person in that entire dumbfuck administration has ever known who the fuck you were... and you certainly wont be remembered by any of em," the Canadian-born DJ, whose real name is Joel Zimmerman, wrote in response to Blau's post. "But everyone in this business will remember that you stood behind nazis and convicted felons who would further marginalize the very people who gave you a platform."Zimmermann went on to reference the younger DJ's hedge fund manager father, alluding to the generational wealth that provided him."What very little respect I had for you is gone," Deadmau5 wrote. "So glad you got some drink tickets out of the deal, enjoy them, you nepo pissbaby."Bass of HimselfWhile few other artists were as verbose as the mouse-headed one, Blau clearly struck a chord."Wow dude," commented Finnish "Sandstorm" legend Darude, whose real name is Toni-Ville Virtanen. "Must be proud.""Sad to see this representation & support in the [EDM] community," responded drag queen DJ Hexxa, "where this is far from what we stand for."Over on X-formerly-Twitter, the tenor was unsurprisingly more in Blau's favor."Dude [Deadmau5]is a tweaked out lockdown mouse," tweeted a no-name DJ and alleged celebrity astrologer who calls himself the Leo King. "I opened for [3LAU a] couple times and he is an awesome human being and DJ.""This whole Nazi thing is way out of hand," the virtually unknown artist continued, a likely reference to Elon Musk's obvious Sieg Heil the same night that 3LAU played the post-inaugural "afters." Blau himself seemed to agree with that sentiment in his own response to the backlash."I believe firmly in both free speech and the acceleration of tech innovation. These principles have been integral to my identity," the DJ wrote in an X post. "I also see crypto and blockchain technology as monumental forces essential to our future as a nation forces that the previous administration opposed.""PS, Im Jewish," he wrote in a follow-up tweet, a relatively useless post note considering that the president's daughter and son-in-law are also Jewish, and also haven't spoken out about Musk's fascist salute or any of Trump's repeat instances of siding with Nazis.More on crypto curiosities: John McAfee Springs Back From the Grave as an AI, Promoting a New Meme CoinShare This Article