Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Friday released a preview version of its long-awaited V4 large language model, allowing users to test its new capabilities and features.

The release comes more than a year after DeepSeek introduced its R1 reasoning model, which rocked global tech markets due to its surprising performance and efficiency, despite reportedly being developed for much lower costs than U.S. rivals.

Similar to DeepSeek’s previous V3 model, the latest upgrade is open source, allowing developers to download the code, run it locally, and modify it.

The Hangzhou-based company claimed that V4 achieves strong performance against domestic competitors, particularly in agent-based tasks, knowledge processing and inference.

The company added that DeepSeek-V4 has been optimized for use with popular agent tools such as Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenClaw.

without donations the project will shut down.

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Digital ID offers a secure and private way for users to create an ID in Apple Wallet using information from their U.S. passport, and present their ID with iPhone or Apple Watch

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Microsoft has officially ended Office Online Server, leaving enterprises with one option: embrace the cloud or get left behind.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-office/no-escape-microsoft-flatlines-office-online-server-its-now-microsoft-365-cloud-or-nothing

https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/29/a-peek-inside-the-physical-archive-where-the-past-finds-a-future/

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AI companies have accounted for 80 per cent of the gains in US stocks so far in 2025.

(Christina Urso) Silicon Valley is dumping over $100 million into a network of political action committees (PACs) and various organizations to advocate against regulation of artificial intelligence.

The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman are “among those helping launch and fund Leading the Future, a new super-PAC network focused on AI.” Other backers of the network include Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale and Ron Conway from Perplexity.

The new Pro-AI PAC network, “Leading the Future,” will use campaign donations and digital ads to promote candidates who advocate for favorable AI regulation, and to oppose candidates whose policies the network thinks will stifle the industry. The PACs are led by former staffers for Sen. Chuck Schumer, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and former Sen. Mitt Romney.

The network has taken inspiration from the pro-crypto super PAC network Fairshake, which helped President Trump secure his victory in 2024.

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Nvidia became the first publicly traded company to surpass a $4 trillion market capitalization on Wednesday, as its shares climbed as much as 2.5% to a record intraday high of roughly $164 on the New York Stock Exchange. The advance builds on a rally driven by unrelenting demand for the company’s artificial-intelligence processors and lifts its stock more than 1,300% since late 2022.

The milestone vaults the Santa Clara-based chipmaker past Microsoft, valued at about $3.7 trillion, and Apple at roughly $3.1 trillion, to become the world’s most valuable company. Nvidia’s swelling size gives it the largest single weighting in the S&P 500 at around 7.5%, helping the benchmark rise 0.6% and the Nasdaq Composite 0.9% on the day.

Over the last twenty years, smartphones gradually replaced many earlier digital tools such as PDAs, cameras and music players. Today these objects are regarded as obsolete: they may hold some esthetic or nostalgic appeal but they do not fit in a modern, zerofriction, cloud-first workflow. Yet these devices still have desirable qualities that smartphones lack: a singular focus on a specific use case; hardware buttons and physical connectors; multi-day battery life.

Even their lack of connectivity can be seen as an asset from a resilience, privacy and security standpoint. Actually using decades-old tech today is challenging, in spite of its apparent simplicity. The friction of physical media-based workflows now feels unacceptable. But much like classic cars can be fitted with an EV motor, it is possible to retrofit older devices in order to make them usable again in a connected world.

https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/papers/limits2025-lafrechoux-retrofitting.pdf