Lots of talk about @deepseek_ai since last week. What's everyone think? This morning, DeepSeek debuted a new Janus-Pro image creation model. Meanwhile, @perplexity_ai just announced DeepSeek's R1 model is now available for deep web research.
@martyswant
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Meta Launches Ads Testing on Threads Platform
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Meta has finally begun early tests for ads within Threads, starting today in the U.S. and Japan with a "small number of advertisers." Here's a sample of what they look like:
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AI Agents: Impact on Advertising Industry Explained
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From Silicon Valley to the ski slopes of Davos, chatter about AI agents is suddenly everywhere. But just how will they impact Madison Avenue? For @Digiday
's ongoing "WTF" series — distilled explainers about a range of timely terms — I wrote a fairly pithy overview of AI agents. -

OpenAI Launches Operator AI Agent Tool with Major Partners
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What's everyone think of @OpenAI
's new "Operator" AI agent tool? It just debuted today in research preview with early partners across e-commerce, publishing, travel, etc. — including @eBay
, @Etsy
, @Uber
, @Instacart
, @Reuters
, @AP
, and @StubHub
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Meta AI’s Content Moderation on Mark Zuckerberg Trump Relationship
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Interesting what Meta AI does & doesn’t say about Mark’s inauguration photo. The unprompted AI-generated summary says comments were mixed, but if you ask Meta AI what they said about Mark’s relationship to Trump it starts writing but auto-deletes. More examples in the thread.
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Getting Started with Raspberry Pi 500 for LLM Development
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Just turned on my new @Raspberry_Pi 500 for the first time! Anyone ever advice for getting started and/or any tutorial recs? I’m hoping to teach myself some Python so I can build/run some programs using LLMs, but have zero experience…Advice welcome!
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Antitrust trials and EU legal battles reshape big tech strategy
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I wonder if that’ll change though depending on the ongoing antitrust US trials and other legal battles in the EU it might try and earn favor to stop.
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Google’s Support for AI Development Remains Unclear
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Good question! I’ve wondered too, but so far it seems Google’s been less overtly supportive.
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Four Platforms Control Majority U.S. Market Share
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That’s majority market share in the U.S. if you combine all four platforms.
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Trump’s TikTok Ban Proposal: Policy History Revisited
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There it is. In case anyone forgot, Trump initially proposed a TikTok ban in 2020 while he was still president.