What to Know About TikTok, Its Algorithm, and the US-China Deal to Keep It Running

A central question to TikTok’s potential shutdown saga has been whether the popular social video platform would keep its ...

All You Need To Know About TikTok, Its Algorithm, And US-China Deal

A central question to TikTok's potential shutdown saga has been whether the popular social video platform would keep its ...

Breaking down TikTok, its algorithm, and the US-China deal to keep it running

But while China has agreed that a divested TikTok could use its algorithm, it's uncertain how that would work. Little is ...

Read the pitch deck these ex-DeepMind scientists used to raise $5 million for an AI 'algorithm factory'

Former DeepMind scientists raise $5 million for Hiverge, a startup developing AI to improve code.
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Bitcoin Difficulty Hits Another All-Time High—Here’s What It Means for Miners

While rising difficulty makes mining less cost-effective, they could remain online—as long as Bitcoin’s price remains high.

Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

Much of the news coverage framed this possibility as a shock to the AI industry, implying that DeepSeek had discovered a new, ...
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JDK 25: The new features in Java 25

Long-Term Support release, with features ranging from structured concurrency and compact object headers to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux, is now generally ...