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DeepSeek V3-0324 has become the highest-scoring non-reasoning model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index in a landmark achievement for open-source AI. The new model advanced seven points in the benchmark to surpass proprietary counterparts such as Google’s Gemini 2.0 Pro, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B. While V3-0324 trails behind reasoning models, including DeepSeek’s own R1 and offerings from OpenAI and Alibaba, the achievement highlights the growing viability of open-source solutions in latency-sensitive applications where immediate responses are critical. DeepSeek V3-0324 represents a new era for open-source AI Non-reasoning models – which generate answers instantly without deliberative…

Apple said today it is opening its catalog to let users build mix sets by integrating the platform with a number of tools. These tools include Algoriddim’s djay Pro software, hardware platforms AlphaTheta, Serato, inMusic’s Engine DJ, Denon DJ, Numark, and RANE DJ. This will possibly attract DJs to explore Apple Music’s catalog of over 100 million songs and also give aspiring DJs an opportunity to play around with some of these tools. The company is also launching a new DJ with an Apple Music category page, which features DJ-friendly editorial playlists, curator pages highlighting DJ software and hardware partners, and mixes for inspiration or practice.…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — European sales of Tesla electric vehicles tumbled 49% in the first two months of the year compared with a year earlier even as overall sales of EVs grew, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association. There have been complaints about an aging lineup of vehicles from Tesla and also a significant backlash against CEO Elon Musk and his affiliation with the Trump administration in the U.S. In Europe, Musk’s endorsement of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party in last month’s national election drew broad condemnation. Tesla faces increasing competition from major automakers as they ramp up…

BlackRock (BLK), the global asset manager behind the largest U.S. spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF), listed a bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) in Europe on Tuesday, its first crypto ETP outside North America. The iShares Bitcoin ETP started trading on Xetra and Euronext in Paris under the ticker IB1T and on Euronext Amsterdam as BTCN, according listing details on iShares’ website. The company’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) is by far the largest of the 12 spot bitcoin ETFs listed in the U.S., with net assets worth over $50 billion and cumulative net inflows of just under $40 billion, according…

President Donald Trump is urging oil producers to “drill, baby, drill.” U.S. oil and gas investors may not be on board with the plan. “Right now, with low oil prices, I think we’re going to start to see a lot of companies starting to pare back on their capital spending,” said Clark Williams-Derry, an energy finance analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.  The U.S. is already producing more crude oil than any other nation in history. In December 2024, U.S. oil and gas firms produced more than 13.49 million barrels of crude per day. That’s an all-time high…

When Sam Weaver was vice president of product management at Unqork, he realized that the company needed a better way to manage its sprawling network of Kubernetes clusters — which are groups of computing nodes. When Unqork couldn’t find anything off the shelf, it assembled a 15-person team to build a Kubernetes management product. Despite the multi-million-dollar expense, Weaver said the resulting platform was just okay. “I’m thinking to myself, there’s got to be a better way of doing this,” Weaver told TechCrunch. “I mean, what we had built was sufficient, but it was not by any means complete, and…

LONDON (AP) — A magazine journalist’s account of being added to a group chat of U.S. national security officials coordinating plans for airstrikes has raised questions about how highly sensitive information is supposed to be handled.Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg detailed a discussion that happened over the Signal messaging app hours before strikes on Iran-backed Houthi-rebels in Yemen ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump.The National Security Council has since said the text chain “appears to be authentic” and that it is looking into how a journalist’s number was added to the chain.Here’s a look at the app in question. What is…

When Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) hit the $100,000 mark in December, all lights appeared to be flashing green. Many investors were convinced that Bitcoin was about to go parabolic. Indeed, it eventually hit a new all-time high of $109,000 on Jan. 20. But ever since then, Bitcoin has been on the decline, and it now trades around the $83,000 mark. This astonishing turn of events has led some investors to rethink everything they know about Bitcoin, including the famous “Bitcoin Cycle” investment thesis that claims to predict the next move of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. The “Bitcoin Cycle” investment thesis…

The premiere founder conference brought to you by TechCrunch is heading back to Boston on July 15. TC All Stage 2025 (formerly known as Early Stage) is our tentpole East Coast event that promises an agenda full of founder knowledge — for all stages — that will be passed along to you. What’s more, if you book your ticket today, you’ll save up to $320+ thanks to our Super Early Bird rates. But time is ticking! Prices will go up after March 31. Register before March 31 at 11:59 p.m. PT to save $300+ on All Stage passes. Why go…

Long before Donald Trump was president of the United States, he was a brand—the TV billionaire known for his gaudy properties, his celebrity hobnobbing, and a sprawling universe of products bearing his name, from resorts to steaks to continuing education courses. That brand has grown massively since, and now powers a media company and crypto operation that have added billions to Trump’s net worth. During his first term, critics complained that the president’s corporate empire was riddled with conflicts of interest and offered abundant opportunities to buy influence—when foreign dignitaries stayed at his luxury hotels during official state visits, for…