Artificial intelligence
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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AI-enhanced films ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’ score Oscar nominations for acting, editing
Adrian Brody in “The Brutalist” Source: A24 Two films facing controversy over their use of artificial intelligence led the nominees for the Academy Awards announced Thursday. “The Brutalist,” a drama about a Hungarian-Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and flees to the U.S., garnered 10 nominations, while “Emilia Pérez,” a musical centered on a transgender […]
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OpenAI introduces Operator to automate tasks such as vacation planning, restaurant reservations
OpenAI is taking its ChatGPT chatbot to the next level, adding a feature to automate tasks such as planning vacations, filling out forms, making restaurant reservations and ordering groceries. The tool, announced on Thursday, is called Operator. OpenAI describes it as “an agent that can go to the web to perform tasks for you,” and […]
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Scale AI CEO says China has quickly caught the U.S. with the DeepSeek open-source model
The U.S. may have led China in the artificial intelligence race for the past decade, according to Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, but on Christmas Day, everything changed. Wang, whose company provides training data to key AI players including OpenAI, Google and Meta, said Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos that DeepSeek, […]
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Google agrees to new $1 billion investment in Anthropic
Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21st, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBC Google has agreed to a new investment of more than $1 billion in generative AI startup Anthropic, a source familiar with the situation confirmed to CNBC. The fresh funding builds on […]
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Meta backs Databricks as the data analytics startup inches toward IPO
Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi. Databricks Data analytics software startup Databricks said Wednesday that Meta has signed on as an investor. As the company that trains the popular Llama open-source large language models, or LLMs, that Databricks builds on, Meta plays an important role in the artificial intelligence. Databricks works closely with Meta’s Llama […]
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Perplexity AI makes a bid to merge with TikTok U.S.
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Perplexity AI officially made a play for TikTok on Saturday, submitting a bid to its parent company, ByteDance, to create a new merged entity combining Perplexity, TikTok U.S. and new capital partners, CNBC has learned. The new structure would allow for most of ByteDance’s existing investors to retain […]
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Sam Altman posts letter from senators concerned about OpenAI efforts to ‘cozy up’ to Trump
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a fireside chat organized by Softbank Ventures Asia in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. Senators on Friday expressed concern to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that he’s attempting to “cozy up to the incoming Trump administration” with […]
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Apple has worst day since August following reports of China, AI struggles
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the first day of in-store sales of Apple’s latest products at Apple’s Fifth Avenue store in New York, US, on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple stock closed down 4% on Thursday, its worst day since Aug. 5, following […]
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From Gmail to Word, your privacy settings and AI are entering into a new relationship
The Microsoft 365 website on a laptop arranged in New York, US, on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The beginning of the year is a great time to do some basic cyber hygiene. We’ve all been told to patch, change passwords, and update software. But one concern that has been increasingly […]
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