China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong has condemned Washington’s “erroneous remarks” calling for the unconditional release of former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, who has been detained for 1,500 days. The US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor said in a social media post on Saturday that Lai had been behind bars…
But DeepSeek’s head office in Hangzhou, capital of eastern Zhejiang province, on Wednesday kept mum on the firm’s potential next moves, as it declined all requests from news media, including the South China Morning Post. More security personnel were deployed outside its office building on the same day, according to one of the guards on…
Here are five things in business tech news that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 27: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek app is displayed on … [+] an iPhone screen on January 27, 2025 in San Anselmo, California. Newly launched Chinese AI…
The Hangzhou-based firm over the past several weeks released two powerful new AI models, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, that were built at a fraction of the cost and computing power that major tech companies muster to build large language models (LLMs) – the technology underpinning generative AI services like ChatGPT. On social media, the AI community…
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek’s chatbot app has dethroned OpenAI’s ChatGPT to claim the top spot on the US iOS App Store, a development that could potentially change the AI landscape due to its open-sourced approach. DeepSeek’s namesake AI chatbot, which was released in the US App Store on January 10 and is free…
Liang Wenfeng, 40, took part in the meeting where a select group of industry experts – in the fields of technology, education, science, culture, health and sports – offered Li their opinions and suggestions for a draft government work report, according to official news agency Xinhua. Hangzhou-based start-up DeepSeek last December made waves in the…
Dec 15, 2024 10:36 AM IST Elon Musk’s reaction to Indian-origin CEO Aravind Sriniva’s X post has gone viral, and many have shared their opinions on the matter. Billionaire Elon Musk reacted to an X post by Aravind Srinivas, the Indian-origin CEO of Perplexity AI, and his response has created a stir on social media….
A former OpenAI researcher, Suchir Balaji, who recently raised concerns about OpenAI breaking copyright law, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who is currently in a legal battle with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, responded to the news with a cryptic ‘hmm’ post on X. Balaji had recently…
The political circumstances that surrounded the publication of Ultimatum, once a bestselling novel that imagined an American effort to annex Canada, may ring familiar to anyone following recent headlines. A US leader announces tariffs on Canadian imports, signalling a more confrontational relationship, and a prime minister named Trudeau scrambles to respond. But the American, in…
Elon Musk has regularly posted that users on X are “the media now” (Photo by Michael M. … [+] Santiago/Getty Images) Getty Images Elon Musk has made it very clear that he believes posts on his social media platform are as credible—and perhaps even more so—than content from traditional news outlets. “You are the media…