Artificial Intelligence

DeepSeek's sudden emergence has put the AI industry's focus on a technique called distillation.

DeepSeek's rise came as a timely confidence boost as the Chinese leadership faces a prolonged economic gloom and a brewing trade war with U.S.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an inquiry into the censorship practices of technology companies, The Wall Street Journal reports. This move aims to shed light on how these companies determine which content to block from user viewership and the potential consequences for consumers and competition."Censorship by

Tokyo-based startup Sakana AI has unveiled a system that could dramatically accelerate AI development and deployment, potentially speeding up the process by 10 to 100 times, Nikkei Asia reports. The company's AI CUDA Engineer system automates the creation of code used to control Nvidia's GPUs, which

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has reported its fastest revenue growth in over a year, signaling a strong turnaround in its commerce business and significant progress in artificial intelligence (AI), according to a Bloomberg report.The company announced an 8% increase in sales to 280.2 billion yuan ($38.6 billion)

OpenAI recently banned several accounts that had been using ChatGPT to write sales pitches and debug code for a suspected social media surveillance tool that likely originated in China, the company ...

Alibaba’s Hong Kong-listed shares surged 15 per cent on Friday, following an 8 per cent gain overnight in New York.

Alibaba Ramps Up AI Spending in Pursuit of AGI  PYMNTS.com

Google’s AI ‘Co-Scientist’ Helps Unearth Research Ideas  PYMNTS.com

In the GenAI Era, Why Are Customer Service Chatbots Dumb?  PYMNTS.com

Startup Together AI Valued at $3.3 Billion as AI Demand Grows  Bloomberg

Approval for RedNote comes after claims last month that it might be using an unapproved model for its newly launched translation service.

OpenAI must face part of Intercept lawsuit over AI training  Reuters

Arize AI hopes it has first-mover advantage in AI observability  TechCrunch

Mercor, an AI recruiting startup founded by 21-year-olds, raises $100M at $2B valuation  TechCrunch

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new Microsoft chip could lead to more stable quantum computers Microsoft has announced that it’s made significant progress in its 20-year quest to make topological quantum bits, or qubits—a special approach to…

Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI lost a bid on Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit in New York federal court alleging it misused news articles published by The Intercept to train its popular chatbot ...

"I think we really need to step up in Europe," Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Thursday.

Lenovo quarterly results smash estimates, says DeepSeek's AI tech will drive growth  Reuters

Two-thirds of the staff at Thinking Machines Lab came from OpenAI, where the founder was once chief technology officer.

AWS CEO Matt Garman talks AI impacts in 2025, tech innovation investments in silicon, cloud, storage, GenAI, AWS partners and Amazon customer challenges.

ChatGPT developer OpenAI's weekly active users surged past 400 million in February, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday, highlighting rapid growth in the adoption of artificial ...

The Hangzhou-based company on Thursday reported an 8 per cent rise in revenues to Rmb280bn ($38bn) in the final quarter of 2024. It was boosted by sales from its cloud business, which rose 13 per cent ...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding saw revenue rise 8 per cent in the December quarter to beat analysts’ estimates, as the company’s cloud computing services unit posted strong growth. The ...

HONG KONG -- Alibaba Group's revenue grew 8% to 280.15 billion yuan ($38.38 billion) in the October-December quarter, beating the average forecast of 279.6 billion yuan by analysts surveyed by LSEG.

Microsoft has announced the development of a new artificial intelligence (AI) model designed to assist in video game development, Reuters reports. This initiative, called Muse, is a collaboration with Ninja Theory, a game developer under Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios.The push for AI-driven tools comes as development costs

Alibaba’s $110 Billion Rally on AI Optimism Faces Earnings Test  Bloomberg

Exclusive: AI-coding startup Codeium in talks to raise at an almost $3B valuation, sources say  TechCrunch

STMicroelectronics on Thursday said it is launching a new computer chip targeting the booming market for AI data centre equipment, which it has developed in cooperation with Amazon's web services arm ...

Alibaba’s cloud services unit now has a global infrastructure network of 87 availability zones across 29 regions.