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US Officials Claim DeepSeek AI App Is ‘Designed To Spy on Americans’
Image: iStock/BeeBright A bipartisan report, recently issued by the US Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), accuses DeepSeek of a series of subversive, illegal, and immoral practices. Moreover, the tech giant NVIDIA is also catching the ire of US government officials for supplying DeepSeek with the chips needed to create the AI models. Investigating DeepSeek The report, titled…
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Reports: White House mulling DeepSeek ban amid investigation
Reports suggest US President Donald Trump is considering banning DeepSeek amid an investigation into the AI developer. The administration is considering banning US citizens from using DeepSeek, according to three sources familiar with the matter, the New York Times reported. Chinese AI firm DeepSeek shocked the AI industry in January when it released a more efficient model that competed with…
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Meta helped build China’s DeepSeek: Whistleblower testimony
Former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams is set to testify before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, revealing how the company’s AI model, Llama, played a critical role in accelerating China’s AI capabilities — particularly contributing to the rise of DeepSeek. Actively endorsed by Chinese officials, DeepSeek has emerged as a formidable rival to OpenAI, with its launch costing just…
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DeepSeek and Anthropic have a long way to go to catch ChatGPT: OpenAI’s flagship chatbot is still far and away the most popular AI tool in offices globally
ChatGPT remains the most popular AI tool among office workers globally, research shows, despite a rising number of competitor options available to users. Recent analysis from DeskTime found OpenAI’s flagship chatbot was used in 76% of offices worldwide at the end of 2024, maintaining a hefty lead over alternatives. Individual AI usage saw significant growth across 2024, according to DeskTime,…
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Apple’s CEO says DeepSeek AI is ‘excellent’
If you’ve been interested/enthusiastic about China’s DeepSeek AI, you’re not alone – Apple CEO Tim Cook also seems impressed with the tech, which he calls “excellent” – though he fell short of sharing any plans to integrate these models within his company’s own AI efforts. Cook was in China to woo government and suppliers as the company remains anxious to maintain its second…
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Huawei’s Pura X Ditches Android for HarmonyOS, Debuts AI Assistant With DeepSeek
Image: Huawei Huawei just flipped the script on foldable phones — literally. The Chinese tech giant has launched the Pura X, a sleek, square-shaped foldable smartphone with a wider screen, a powerful AI assistant, and no trace of Google’s Android in sight. Unveiled on March 20 in Shenzhen, the Huawei Pura X starts at 7,499 yuan (about $1,037) and marks…
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Manus AI Is Not China’s Second DeepSeek Moment; See Beyond the Hype
Within just a week, more than 2 million users have joined the waiting list to access China’s Manus general AI agent. Manus AI is being touted as the “second DeepSeek moment” coming from China. This is when the agent is in closed beta, and can only be accessed via an invitation. The frenzy has taken hold, with many calling Manus…
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Manus AI is the new challenger to DeepSeek — everything you need to know
AI is already changing up the way we handle our daily tasks, with constant ways to apply the ever-growing list of models to discover what works best. Imagine screening a hundred resumes to find the best candidate and even asking the AI to interview the ones with the most potential? Or possibly asking an AI to assemble all of your…
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‘Awesome for the community’: DeepSeek open sourced its code repositories, and experts think it could give competitors a scare
Challenger AI startup DeepSeek has open-sourced some of its code repositories in a move that experts told ITPro puts the firm ahead of the competition on model transparency. In a post to X late last month, DeepSeek said it would be open sourcing five of its code repositories in a bid to share what it called its “small but sincere…
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says DeepSeek has done ‘good work’ showcasing AI model efficiency — and Gemini is going the same way too
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has lauded DeepSeek in the wake of the firm’s bombshell AI model release, noting that the Chinese company has shook up the industry with showcasing efficiency and accessibility gains. Last month, DeepSeek released its first AI model amid claims it was trained using a fraction of the resources — and therefore costs — of rival models…
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