Artificial intelligence
China’s DeepSeek quietly releases upgraded R1 AI model, ramping up competition with OpenAI
Deepseek’s logo on Jan. 29, 2025. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chinese startup DeepSeek, which caused shockwaves across markets this year, quietly released an upgraded version of its artificial intelligence reasoning model. The company did not make an official announcement, but the upgrade of DeepSeek R1 was released on AI model repository Hugging […]
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Here’s how many fake reviews Tripadvisor found on its website in 2024
Around 8% of the 31.1 million reviews submitted to Tripadvisor in 2024 were fake, according to the company’s “Transparency Report 2025.” That’s more than twice the number detected in 2022, according to company reports. But that doesn’t mean the number of fake reviews on the site doubled, said Becky Foley, vice president and head of […]
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Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in U.S. government, raising conflict concerns: Reuters
Elon Musk looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 21, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok in the U.S. federal government to analyze data, three […]
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Microsoft employees say emails with ‘Gaza,’ ‘Palestine,’ or ‘genocide’ won’t send
Security officers block entrance doors after pro-Palestinian protesters attempted to enter the Microsoft Build conference at the Seattle Convention Center Arch building in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. Jason Redmond | Afp | Getty Images Microsoft employees are concerned that the company has been blocking Outlook emails containing the words “Palestine,” “Gaza,” “genocide,” “apartheid” […]
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Anthropic launches Claude 4, its most powerful AI model yet
In this photo illustration, Claude AI logo is seen on a smartphone and Anthropic logo on a pc screen. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Anthropic, the Amazon-backed OpenAI rival, on Thursday launched its most powerful group of artificial intelligence models yet: Claude 4. The […]
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Nvidia says U.S. export controls on AI chips to China were ‘a failure’
Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence chips to China were “a failure”, Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said on Wednesday. “All in all, the export control […]
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Google launches Veo 3, an AI video generator that incorporates audio
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, speaks at the Google I/O developer conference. Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Google on Tuesday announced Veo 3, an AI video generator that can also create and incorporate audio. The artificial intelligence tool competes with OpenAI’s Sora video generator, but its ability to also incorporate audio into […]
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Taiwan’s Foxconn says AI data center with Nvidia to have 100 MW of power
Young Liu, chairman of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., right, and Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, said Tuesday an artificial intelligence center it has announced with Nvidia […]
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Microsoft introduces GitHub AI agent that can code for you
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on , April 4, 2025. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft’s GitHub unit on Monday introduced a Copilot artificial intelligence agent that can take on specific programming work and inform people once […]
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Qualcomm to launch data center processors that link to Nvidia chips
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon speaks at Computex 2025 in Taipei on May 19, 2025. Cheng Yu-chen | Afp | Getty Images Qualcomm on Monday said it plans to launch processors designed for data centers to power artificial intelligence, which will link to Nvidia’s chips. Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs) have become a critical component in […]
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