Leo's Lightbulbs💡- Deepseek roils the US stock market AND gets hacked

A big day for short sellers after Nvidia loses $600 billion off its market value.

OpenAI has launched a new 'reasoning' AI model, o3-mini, the successor to the AI startup's o1 family of reasoning models.

A new report indicates that DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model refused to answer some 85% of 1,360 sensitive-topic "prompts".

Wiz researchers found many similarities to OpenAI with their escalated access.

Just a few hours after David Sacks claimed DeepSeek used OpenAI’s models to train its own models, Bloomberg Law reports that Microsoft is investigating

David Sacks said there's evidence that DeepSeek 'distilled' knowledge from OpenAI's models, a process that Sacks equated to theft.

Chinese tech company Alibaba released a new version of the Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that surpasses DeepSeek's latest model.

Alibaba stock is higher Wednesday after the Chinese conglomerate said its updated AI model outperforms DeepSeek and other competitors. Here's what to know.

With a new reasoning model that matches the performance of ChatGPT o1, DeepSeek managed to turn restrictions into innovation.

A new Chinese AI app is sparking existential panic in American AI companies and investors.

The firm's spending makes clear how much it wants to shape the new rules around government AI policy.

Chinese start-up DeepSeek is as powerful as ChatGPT and purportedly uses much less computing power. Will this competition spur US companies to greater things?

Perplexity, a startup building AI-powered search tools, has been sued in federal court for allegedly violating another company's trademark.

The jury is still out on whether the Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek is a game changer or part of an elaborate plan by its hedge fund parent company to short

Hype around DeepSeek sent the stock price of several Chinese companies soaring, but proof of their ties to DeepSeek is non-existent.

The AI bubble hasn't burst yet, at least when it comes to consumer spending on AI apps. Led by OpenAI's ChatGPT, overall spending on AI apps jumped to

Safety is often overlooked in the rush to bring humanoid robots to the workplace. As high-profile corporations ranging from retailers like Amazon to

A group of Hugging Face engineers, including the company's head of research, are spearheading an effort to replicate DeepSeek's R1 model.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt called for the United States to ramp up open source AI efforts to address the rise of DeepSeek in a Washington Post op-ed

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, has Silicon Valley reeling with its R1 reasoning model, which it claims uses far less computing power than those of American

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov, a new version of its AI-powered chatbot platform aimed at U.S. government agency customers.

The mobile app for DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, skyrocketed to the No. 1 spot in app stores around the globe this weekend, topping the U.S.-based AI

Alibaba's Qwen team has released a new family of models, Qwen2.5-VL, that can control a PC and phone, plus handle other visual tasks.

The tech industry's reaction to AI model DeepSeek R1 has been wild. Pat Gelsinger, for instance, is elated and thinks it will make AI better for everyone.

Google has quietly announced Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental, a flagship model, in a changelog for the company's Gemini chatbot app.

Less than three months since Intel was awarded $7.68bn in milestone-based federal grants, the company has received $2.2bn of that allotment.

Intel is effectively killing Falcon Shores, its next-generation GPU for high-performance computing and AI workloads.

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

Quartz, the business outlet, has begun quietly publishing AI-generated articles under the byline "Quartz Intelligence Newsroom."

Move over, DeepSeek. Seattle-based nonprofit AI lab Ai2 has released a benchmark-topping model called Tulu3-405B.

AI-generated songs can't be copyrighted, but AI tools used by creators are fair game, according to a new U.S. Copyright Office report.

In the U.S., AI-generated creations — books, movies, and so forth — that have been edited by a human can likely be copyrighted, but those without any

The new technique could produce materials for use in helicopters, airplanes and spacecraft.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he uses AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini to write his first drafts for him.

The move comes ahead of expected layoffs as Google continues to "push a little further" with cost cuts.

OpenAI is announcing a new AI "agent" designed to help people conduct in-depth, complex research using ChatGPT, the company's AI-powered chatbot platform.