DeepSeek news is sinking crypto too, but will the slump last?
The news that DeepSeek’s new R1 model was created in just two months for under $6 million is triggering a significant sell-off , not only for the tech sector but for the crypto market, too. The free C...
DeepSeek’s $6 million AI model just blew a $1 trillion hole in the market. Here’s the only explainer you’ll need on this “Sputnik moment”
Over the weekend, the DeepSeek AI story really exploded . There are a lot of different aspects to this story that strike right at the heart of the moment of this AI frenzy from the biggest tech compan...
DeepSeek AI is next year’s nightmare for Nvidia, today
The rapid emergence and popularity of China’s DeepSeek AI suggests that there may be another way to compete in AI besides jumping into a major chips arms race. That, if true, would be awful news for t...
A quick and dirty timeline of the market’s DeepSeekFreak
Mega tech stocks plunged in their worst sell-off of 2025 early Monday, with AI darlings like , , and notching some of their biggest stumbles in recent memory. Associated AI plays, like the energy com...
DeepSeek’s dirt-cheap AI puts Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon’s AI spending in perspective
Perhaps what’s most unsettling the markets about China’s powerful new AI model DeepSeek is its price tag — its very small price tag. The company said it spent just $5.6 million to train its latest mod...
Maybe Apple isn’t an AI company after all
Thanks to news that China’s DeepSeek has developed a competitive AI chatbot for what is reportedly a fraction of what its Western counterparts have spent, AI stocks are seeing a steep sell-off . , , a...
China’s DeepSeek turns AI on its head, with US tech stocks on track to lose $1 trillion in value
Despite only being founded in 2023 and reportedly using inferior chips at a fraction of the cost of many of its competitors, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released the R1 last week — a model that goes toe t...
OpenAI’s “Operator” is here to slowly take over your computer and mess up your life
OpenAI released a “research preview” of its AI agent that can control your web browser. Called “ Operator ,” it has the ability to control your mouse and keyboard and analyze things it “sees” on your ...
A free, powerful Chinese AI model just dropped — but don’t ask it about Tiananmen Square
The AI world was abuzz this week with the release of the DeepSeek R1 models, from Chinese AI lab DeepSeek . The free large language model is impressing the AI community for being one of the first free...
Crypto, AI dreams, and memes: The best stock trades of 2025
Goldman Sachs’ curated baskets of thematically aligned stocks offer an interesting way of keeping tabs on the market. So far this year, they’re giving a pretty clear reading on parts of the market tha...
Moderna shoots higher on AI hopes
Moderna’s share price spiked up about 10% on Wednesday after Chairman Larry Ellison said artificial intelligence has the potential to make personalized vaccines to detect and prevent cancer. Ellison ...
FTC report scrutinizes OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s partnerships with cloud giants
On the last working day of Lina Khan’s FTC, the agency announced the release of a report that examines the terms of three of the largest deals between AI companies and cloud-computing giants, after re...
Apple appears to acknowledge that Apple Intelligence isn’t so smart
A new iOS update suggests that Apple might be as unimpressed with some of its Intelligence features as everyone else . According to 9to5Mac , the iPhone maker has released changes related to its AI s...
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SoundHound AI soars as speculative trade reignites
After an god-awful 35% drop to open 2025, shares are getting a huge relief rally on Wednesday following a softer inflation report that sparked a massive drop in long-term interest rates and set off a...
Lawsuit alleges Zuckerberg OK’d training AI on copyrighted works
CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the use of a dataset containing copyrighted material to train the company’s Llama AI model, a new filing in a copyright suit against the company says. A last-minute discov...
Musk: We’ve “exhausted” the supply of human knowledge for AI training data
The AI industry is having a hard time finding new reservoirs of human knowledge to train AI models on, having slurped up pretty much everything on the internet. CEO Elon Musk agrees with others in th...
Microsoft fully open-sources its Phi-4 LLM to win over developers
In a significant move, has fully open-sourced its Phi-4 “small” large language model. A key requirement for a LLM to be considered open-source is for the model — and the weights (the internal parame...
Quantum-computing stocks tumble on Nvidia CEO’s comment that they’re decades away from being “very useful”
Answering complicated math problems that would take normal computers longer than the history of the universe to solve isn’t cool. You know what is cool? Being useful and making money. And, according t...
Altman: Artificial general intelligence will arrive during Trump’s time
In a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg , OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reflected on his tumultuous leadership during the young company’s most consequential moments, and shed light on the progress of compa...
It’s hard to lose money selling a $200 a month subscription, but OpenAI is doing exactly that
OpenAI is currently losing money on its newest and most expensive subscription, ChatGPT Pro, because people are using it more than the company expected, Sam Altman said in a post on Sunday.