The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover
Both Bobba and Coristine are listed in internal OPM records reviewed by WIRED as “experts” at OPM, reporting directly to Amanda Scales, its new chief of staff. Scales previously worked on talent for xAI,...
DOGE Staff Had Questions About the ‘Resign’ Email. Their New HR Chief Dodged Them
On Friday, staff at what was formerly the United States Digital Service and is now part of Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative met with Stephanie Holmes, who identified herself as a part of the DOGE...
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DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all
Add the fact that other tech firms, inspired by DeepSeek’s approach, may now start building their own similar low-cost reasoning models, and the outlook for energy consumption is already looking a lot less rosy....
OpenAI releases its new o3-mini reasoning model for free
These types of models are most effective at solving complex problems, so if you have any PhD-level math problems you’re cracking away at, you can try them out. Alternatively, if you’ve had issues with...
How DeepSeek ripped up the AI playbook—and why everyone’s going to follow its lead
And on the hardware side, DeepSeek has found new ways to juice old chips, allowing it to train top-tier models without coughing up for the latest hardware on the market. Half their innovation comes...
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The Download: climate tech under Trump, and scaling up quantum computing
1 Trump advisers were blindsided by Elon Musk’s team’s offer to federal workersOfficials weren’t consulted about plans to induce civil service workers to resign. (WP $)+ The radical sweeping measures are just the beginning....
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The Download: mice with two dads, and Meta’s fact-checking challenges
MIT Technology Review Narrated: Is this the end of animal testing? Animal studies are notoriously bad at identifying human treatments. Around 95% of the drugs developed through animal research fail in people. But until...