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Jason Momoa is using his celebrity influence to advance his passion for ocean conservation. He is partnering with Boomerang Water to relaunch his sustainable water brand, Mananalu, as a B2B on-site bottling system designed to eliminate single-use plastic waste and reduce reliance on water transportation.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model. The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which…
On January 8, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang jolted the stock market by saying that practical quantum computing is still 15 to 30 years away, at the same time suggesting those computers will need Nvidia GPUs in order to implement the necessary error correction. However, history shows that brilliant people are not immune to making mistakes.…