Transcript: SoftBank wants a piece of the AI pie
SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI. The deal would make it the start-up’s biggest financial backer.
Italy blocks Chinese AI app DeepSeek, opens investigation into data use
The country’s data watchdog says the firm gave it ‘completely insufficient’ answers to questions about what it does with user ...
Chinese state-linked accounts hyped DeepSeek AI launch ahead of US stock rout: report
The accounts involved in the effort, including those of Chinese diplomats, embassies and state media, amplified media ...
DeepSeek’s AI restricted by ‘hundreds’ of companies and govt agencies in days
Move due to concerns about potential data leaks to Chinese government and weak privacy safeguards . Read more at straitstimes.com.
Italy blocks access to the Chinese AI application DeepSeek to protect users’ data
Italy’s data protection authority has blocked use of Chinese tech startup DeepSeek’s AI application to protect Italians’ data ...
US should ‘steal’ China’s best AI talent to keep pace, Senate hears
Talk of luring engineers follows mainland start-up DeepSeek's emergence and ensuing shock waves felt by major American tech ...
FirstFT: China’s military builds massive new wartime command centre
Also in today’s newsletter, OpenAI’s massive new funding round, and India’s Narendra Modi faces tough budget challenge ...
Trump must engage the Chinese on AI, superconductor production, top analyst says
As China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence app stunned both the stock market and the tech world this week, President Trump ...
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Chinese Schooling, Tourism, and Language Contribute to Cultural Erasure of Tibet
Earlier this month, a massive earthquake struck Tibet and severely damaged numerous monasteries and nunneries. Recent media articles since then have highlighted other ongoing threats to Tibetan ...
Patel thrives, Gabbard struggles
Trump’s pick to be director of the FBI, loyalist KASH PATEL, was already expected to have a much easier path to confirmation than director of national intelligence nominee TULSI GABBARD. Gabbard has ...
DeepSeek’s AI restricted by ‘hundreds’ of companies within days
According to DeepSeek’s own privacy policy, the company collects users’ keystrokes, text and audio input, uploaded files, feedback, chat history and other content for the purpose of training its AI ...