This was a great show and if you spent enough time on the floor (I did so you don't have to), you could see it really did live up to both marketing taglines 📈💡🔮❤️

DeepSeek was certain to happen. The only unknown was who was going to do it. The choices were a startup or someone outside the current center of US AI leadership and innovation.

CES proved a transition year with many established product lines showing incremental improvements or focusing on B2B areas and new product lines showing a rush to demonstrate their relevancy to AI.

Also: Company ramps up work on turning AirPods into a health device.

It is very easy to be disruptive, but being a disruptor is enormously difficult technically and emotionally

And Sydney too. Consolidating some thoughts on an exciting two weeks of surprises, advances, and retreats in AI.

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A German stock photographer tried to get his photos removed from the AI-training LAION dataset. Lawyers replied that he owes $979 for making an unjustified copyright claim.