Oxford professor advises against putting private data on platform in case it could be shared with Chinese state Experts have urged caution over rapidly embracing the Chinese artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek, citing concerns about it spreading misinformation and how the Chinese state might exploit users’ data. The new low-cost AI wiped $1tn off the leading …
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The US was widely considered the leader in AI, but a Chinese startup has called that dominance into question Hello, and welcome back to TechScape. There was a lot of news last week. To run it down in an expedient fashion: • Donald Trump, Sam Altman, Masayoshi Son and Larry Ellison announced a $500bn initiative …
As the Video Game History Foundation opens a new digitised archive, what can titles like Crash, Mega, Edge and GamesMaster tell us about the early days of gaming? Before the internet, if you were an avid gamer then you were very likely to be an avid reader of games magazines. From the early 1980s, the …
Tech firm to make change in line with Trump’s executive order, using both names in world outside US and Mexico Google has confirmed it will rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US, after an executive order from Donald Trump. It will remain the Gulf of Mexico …
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Charity set up after 14-year-old’s death concerned as Zuckerberg realigns company with Trump administration Mark Zuckerberg’s move to change Meta’s content moderation policies risks pushing social media platforms back to the days before the teenager Molly Russell took her own life after viewing thousands of Instagram posts about suicide and self-harm, campaigners have claimed. The …
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Emergence of ‘cheap’ Chinese rival has wiped $1tn off the value of leading US tech companies What is DeepSeek and why did US tech stocks fall? Business live – latest updates Donald Trump has said that the launch of a chatbot by China’s DeepSeek is a “wake up call” for US tech firms in the …
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The AI app soared up the Apple charts and rocked US stocks, but Chinese chatbot was reluctant to discuss sensitive questions about China and its government Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The launch of a new chatbot by Chinese artificial …
US president says he would like to see a bidding war over app, owned by China’s ByteDance, that has been focus of national security concerns Donald Trump has suggested that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok and that he would like to see a bidding war over the app. When asked if Microsoft was …
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Phone calls can be inconvenient, stressful or actively unpleasant – especially if you’re part of my generation. At 27, can I survive seven days without texts or group chats? And will I still have a social life at the end? In the listless early weeks of January – my resolutions for self-improvement already gone to …
The new Chinese AI that rivals US big tech at a fraction of the cost has seen its popularity soar. However, despite its appeal to international users, the app appears to censor answers to sensitive questions about China and its government We tried out DeepSeek. It works well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square …
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