Artificial intelligence
SoftBank in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, accompanied by U.S. President Donald Trump, Oracle CTO Larry Ellison (R), and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (2nd-R), speaks during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 […]
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Microsoft set to report earnings after the bell
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, arrives for the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, July 9, 2024. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Microsoft will report fiscal second-quarter results after the U.S. market close Wednesday. Here’s what analysts are looking for, according to LSEG: […]
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DeepSeek app unavailable in Apple and Google app stores in Italy
The Chinese artificial intelligence application DeepSeek appeared to be unavailable on Wednesday in Apple and Google app stores in Italy on Wednesday. A notice displayed to customers on Apple’s App Store said the app was “currently not available in the country or area you are in. A message on the Google app platform, said the […]
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ASML CEO sees low-cost AI models like DeepSeek driving more demand — not less
Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML expects new low-cost models like the one rolled out by China’s DeepSeek to lead to more — rather than less — demand for AI chips, CEO Christophe Fouquet told CNBC Wednesday. ASML beat estimates on both sales and profit for the fourth quarter and said it had an order backlog […]
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U.S. Navy bans use of DeepSeek due to ‘security and ethical concerns’
Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images The U.S. Navy has instructed its members to avoid using artificial intelligence technology from China’s DeepSeek, CNBC has learned. In a warning issued by email to “shipmates” on Friday, the Navy said DeepSeek’s AI was not to be used “in any capacity” due to “potential security and ethical […]
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies
OpenAI on Tuesday announced its biggest product launch since its enterprise rollout. It’s called ChatGPT Gov and was built specifically for U.S. government use. The Microsoft-backed company bills the new platform as a step beyond ChatGPT Enterprise as far as security. It allows government agencies, as customers, to feed “non-public, sensitive information” into OpenAI’s models […]
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Trump says Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok
A Microsoft store in New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok and that he would like to see a bidding war over the app. Microsoft declined to comment. TikTok and ByteDance did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for a comment outside regular […]
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DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it’s limiting registrations
DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services, though existing users will be able to log in as usual. The Chinese artificial intelligence startup has generated a lot of buzz in recent weeks as a fast-growing rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and other leading […]
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China’s DeepSeek AI dethrones ChatGPT on App Store: Here’s what you should know
On Monday, Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek took over rival OpenAI’s coveted spot as the most-downloaded free app in the U.S. on Apple‘s App Store, dethroning ChatGPT for DeepSeek’s AI Assistant. Global tech stocks sold-off and were on pace to wipe out billions in market cap. Tech leaders, analysts, investors and developers say that the […]
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How China’s new AI model DeepSeek is threatening U.S. dominance
A little-known AI lab out of China has ignited panic throughout Silicon Valley after releasing AI models that can outperform America’s best despite being built more cheaply and with less-powerful chips. DeepSeek, as the lab is called, unveiled a free, open-source large-language model in late December that it says took only two months and less than $6 […]
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