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AI chat firm GameOn couple arrested for defrauding investors of over $60M to finance wedding and more

January 29, 2025
Authorities yesterday arrested GameOn Technology founder Alexander Charles Beckman and attorney Valerie Lau Beckman (a married couple) for allegedly defrauding investors of $60 million. In a 25-count indictment, the U.S. Department of Justice said the couple allegedly falsified dozens of bank statements and audit reports defraud GameOn investors. The alleged fraud spanned six years. Beckman was…
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Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek

January 28, 2025
As of a few days ago, only the nerdiest of nerds (I say this as one) had ever heard of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI subsidiary of the equally evocatively named High-Flyer Capital Management, a quantitative analysis (or quant) firm that initially launched in 2015. Yet within the last few days, it’s been arguably the most discussed company in Silicon Valley. That’s largely thanks to the release of…
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We asked OpenAI’s o1 about the top AI trends in 2025 — here’s a look into our conversation

January 27, 2025
AI is already reshaping industries and society on a global scale. IDC predicts that AI will contribute $19.9 trillion to the global economy by 2030, comprising 3.5% of GDP. This momentum is exemplified by the recent announcement of “Project Stargate,” a partnership to invest up to $100 billion in new AI-focused data center capacity. This is all indicative of the tremendous activity going on…
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Flow Specialty launches the 1st AI insurance broker

January 23, 2025
Flow Specialty, a specialty commercial brokerage, is announcing the industry’s first AI insurance broker. The brokerage’s platformless AI model has passed RPLU certification exams for the Cyber, Errors & Omissions, and Executive liability modules. It may be…
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Google releases free Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, pressuring OpenAI’s premium strategy

January 23, 2025
Google has quietly released a major update to its popular artificial intelligence model, Gemini, which now explains its reasoning process, sets new performance records in mathematical and scientific tasks, and offers a free alternative to OpenAI’s premium services. The new Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, released Tuesday in the Google AI Studio under the experimental designation…
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