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In today's Techpresso:

⚡️ Google launches Gemini 2.5 Flash

📍 New viral ChatGPT trend involves reverse location searching photos

🗣️ How Tim Cook helped Apple avoid Trump’s tariffs

🛒 US consumers are flocking to Chinese shopping apps DHgate and Taobao

👀 Meta asked Amazon and Microsoft to help fund Llama

🎁 + 11 other news you might like

🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools

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⚡️ Google launches Gemini 2.5 Flash LINK
  • Google introduced Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview, incorporating a unique "thinking budget" feature that enables developers to manage the model's reasoning level for each query.
  • This new capability allows programmers to balance computational cost versus the desired quality of the response by adjusting the extent of internal processing permitted for tasks.
  • Available now in developer platforms and coming soon to the Gemini app, the model uses enhanced reasoning for complex prompts, automatically adapting its thinking if no budget is set.
📍 New viral ChatGPT trend involves reverse location searching photos LINK
  • People are increasingly using OpenAI's latest ChatGPT models, like o3, to figure out the geographical setting shown in photographs, creating a popular online activity.
  • The AI meticulously analyzes visual details within images, even blurry ones, combining this with web searches to identify specific places like landmarks or eateries accurately.
  • The ability to perform this reverse location lookup raises potential privacy issues, as it could be misused without apparent safeguards preventing harmful applications like doxxing.
🗣️ How Tim Cook helped Apple avoid Trump’s tariffs LINK
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook utilized his established connection with President Trump, speaking directly with administration officials concerning the potential negative effects of tariffs on the company's merchandise.
  • Through discreet communication and avoiding public condemnation of the policies, Cook persuaded the administration to provide relief from import taxes for vital tech products Apple assembles abroad.
  • Although helpful to other technology businesses, these duty exemptions substantially favored Apple, demonstrating Cook's successful approach despite White House assertions of impartiality towards individual corporations.
🛒 US consumers are flocking to Chinese shopping apps DHgate and Taobao LINK
  • Seeking cheaper goods due to tariff hikes, US shoppers are increasingly adopting Chinese e-commerce applications like DHgate and Taobao, boosting their app store popularity significantly.
  • On social media platforms like TikTok, vendors from China promote low-cost merchandise, sometimes making unverified assertions about manufacturing products for famous Western luxury companies.
  • Online personalities and shipping agents offer advice on how American buyers can circumvent import taxes and acquire products directly from China, securing lower prices for desired items.
👀 Meta asked Amazon and Microsoft to help fund Llama LINK
  • Meta apparently approached competitors including Microsoft and Amazon seeking investment for its expensive Llama large language models, highlighting the significant financial strain involved in cutting-edge artificial intelligence development.
  • Building enormous and complex models like Llama 4 Behemoth, demanding vast computing power and advanced engineering, directly underpins the potential requirement for shared financial backing from partners.
  • This funding outreach occurs alongside Meta's strategy to deeply integrate Llama technology across its platforms while managing added costs from extensive safety tuning and potential legal data controversies.

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Other news & articles you might like

  • OpenAI pursued Cursor maker before entering into talks to buy Windsurf for $3B LINK
  • Nvidia's CEO went to China and promised to 'unswervingly serve the Chinese market' LINK
  • AI benchmarking platform Chatbot Arena forms a new company LINK
  • Google is gifting a year of Gemini Advanced to every college student in the US LINK
  • Trump administration considering broader DeepSeek ban LINK
  • Intel CEO slams 'suffocating' bureaucracy — puts AI front and center with leadership reshuffle LINK
  • Facebook considered offering an ad-free subscription after the Cambridge Analytica scandal LINK
  • Instagram’s new Blend feature creates a custom reels feed for you and your friends LINK
  • Why are AI companies so bad at naming their models? LINK
  • Discord gets sued for allegedly violating child safety laws LINK
  • Cursor AI support bot invents fake policy and triggers user uproar LINK

Latest research and tools

Shell-secrets: reads secret values from GPG-encrypted files to securely set environment variables for command-line tools, avoiding unencrypted storage. LINK
Less Slow C++: provides benchmarks and practical code examples to help developers write faster C and C++ applications by demonstrating performance effects of various techniques and features. LINK
val: an arbitrary precision calculator language for evaluating mathematical expressions and running programs via its command-line interface or interactive prompt. LINK
John Clark's Latin Verse Machine: this mechanical device from the 1800s automatically created Latin verses. LINK
PIM-LLM: A High-Throughput Hybrid PIM Architecture for 1-Bit LLMs: this paper proposes a hybrid processing-in-memory system designed to run large language models with 1-bit weights efficiently and quickly. LINK

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