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Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia, ADM Buoyed by Saudi AI Deals, Softer US Export Controls

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A change in US export controls on advanced semiconductors presaged a wave of AI deals between the US and Saudi Arabia this week.

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Artificial Intelligence

DeepSeek May Be Leveling the AI Playing Field

Just a day after flipping out about DeepSeek’s scary good cheap AI, Silicon Valley is saying the competition is going to make us all better.

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Healthcare

LinkedIn Cofounder Hoffman’s New AI Oncology Startup Raises $25 Million

Behind the blinding white light of Monday’s trillion–dollar AI wipeout that was a spot of unabashedly good AI news.

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Artificial Intelligence

Less is More: Who’s Afraid of DeepSeek?

Yesterday saw a huge selloff in US tech stocks after a Chinese AI chatbot app DeepSeek shot to the top of the Apple App Store. Why the fuss?

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Artificial Intelligence

Chegg Cuts Workforce as AI Takes Over the Chat

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Online learning company Chegg is laying off almost a quarter of its workforce amid worries that AI is doing people’s homework for them.

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CIO Upside

Quantum Computing Race Isn’t Run ‘In a Vacuum’

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“It is a technology that is emerging worldwide.”

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Social Media

TikTok Restored Services in the US. Now What?

After a brief blackout period from late Saturday, TikTok began restoring services to US users on Sunday morning.

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Technology

The State of the Billionaire Space Race

Blue Origin is going slower than SpaceX, but it also nailed a massive rocket launch on the first try. Jeff Bezos is back in the space race.

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Social Media

The TikTok Ban Looms But Nobody Can Agree On What That Means

The clock is ticking on TikTok. Or is it? And if it is, whose hand is on the alarm setting as of this morning?

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Artificial Intelligence

Google AI-ngst: Apple Deal May Disintegrate Even Without Court Intervention

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The future of traditional search engines got a rude awakening last week as an Apple executive predicted their eventual demise.

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