Month: January 2025

DeepSeek’s home | Bare bones | Liquid lift-off | Labour faithfuls? | School sports | Questionable teaching Rachel Reeves is behind the tech curve in proposing to create “Europe’s Silicon Valley” (Report, 28 January). She should surely be considering an equivalent of Hangzhou, home of DeepSeek, the company that knocked $1tn off the value of …

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Ahead of a new digital archive of video game history, I got to thinking about how the games, magazines and other material says as much about the player as the games themselves I just finished writing a feature about the Video Game History Foundation in Oakland, California, and how it is preparing to share its …

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Move reported by the FT would make Japanese group the largest financial backer of US startup behind ChatGPT Business live – latest updates The Japanese investment group SoftBank is reportedly in talks to invest up to $25bn (£20bn) in OpenAI in a deal that would make it the biggest financial backer of the startup behind …

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Settlement originates from lawsuit by president against the platform, one of several filed after 6 January violence Meta has agreed to pay $25m to settle a lawsuit with Donald Trump. The suit originated in 2021 when Trump sued the social media company for suspending his accounts after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. …

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Questions over multibillion-dollar spending on AI are mounting, spurred by DeepSeek’s shock to US stock market Microsoft will report its second-quarter earnings for fiscal year 2025 Wednesday as questions over multibillion-dollar spending on AI continue to mount, spurred by DeepSeek’s shock to the US stock market just days ago. Wall Street expects $3.11 in earnings …

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Despite disappointing sales and delivery figures, the company’s stock price has doubled in the past year Tesla will report earnings for the fourth quarter of 2024 on Wednesday after US stock markets close, capping a bruising year for the company’s sales but a stellar one for its stock price. Wall Street analysts predict the company’s …

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Zuckerberg likely to be asked about plans to spend $60-65bn on AI in 2025 as tech giant faces increased competition Meta will report earnings for the fourth quarter of 2024 after US stock markets close on Wednesday. Analysts will likely ask about Mark Zuckerberg’s plans to spend between $60bn and $65bn on AI infrastructure in …

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Italian and Irish regulators want answers on how data harvested by chatbot could be used by Chinese government The Chinese AI platform DeepSeek has become unavailable for download from some app stores in Italy as regulators in Rome and in Ireland demanded answers from the company about its handling of citizens’ data. Amid growing concern …

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Wide-ranging investigation says impact on work likely to be profound, but opinion on risk of human extinction varies The International AI Safety report is a wide-ranging document that acknowledges an array of challenges posed by a technology that is advancing at dizzying speed. The document, commissioned after the 2023 global AI safety summit, covers numerous …

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Yoshua Bengio says closer competition in field could prove dangerous, as international panel says AI’s future uncertain The potential for artificial intelligence systems to be used for malicious acts is increasing, according to a landmark report by AI experts, with one of the study’s authors warning that DeepSeek and other disruptors could heighten the safety …

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