Tech Brief (Dec. 2): DeepSeek Rivals OpenAI, Google With New Models Nvidia takes $2 billion stake in Synopsys, Apple shakes up AI leadership Caixin Global · Dec 2, 2025
China’s DeepSeek releases first AI capable of top score at maths Olympiad ‘Imagine owning the brain of one of the best mathematicians in the world for free,’ says tech boss The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2025
Insiders say the future of AI will be smaller and cheaper than you think Bigger is not necessarily better, these execs say. Fortune · Dec 1, 2025
Tech Brief (Nov. 28): China Warns of Overcrowding as Humanoid Robot Makers Top 150 Avatr files for Hong Kong IPO, Alibaba launches AI glasses Caixin Global · Nov 28, 2025
Alibaba and ByteDance Move AI Training To Southeast Asia To Bypass US Nvidia Ban Chinese tech giants Alibaba and ByteDance are moving AI training to Southeast Asia to skirt US bans on top-tier Nvidia chips. International Business Times UK · Nov 27, 2025
Not up to code: security flaws, bias in foreign AI tool Companies should scrutinise the artificial intelligence technology they deploy, researchers have warned, after vulnerabilities were found in a Chinese tool. AAP · Nov 26, 2025
DeepSeek took off as an AI superstar a year ago - but could it also be a major security risk? These experts think so DeepSeek-R1’s code output becomes insecure when political topics are included, revealing hidden censorship and serious risks for enterprise deployments. TechRadar · Nov 25, 2025
If You Invested $10,000 in These Crypto Mining Stocks This Year, Here’s How Much You Would Have See how much your $10,000 investment in crypto mining stocks would be worth today and which companies delivered the biggest gains. GOBankingRates · Nov 21, 2025
Alibaba Launches Free 'Qwen' AI Assistant, Aiming To Be The 'Everything App' For Work And Life Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) is making a stronger push into consumer artificial intelligence by launching a significant upgrade to its chatbot, aiming to catch up with rivals after falling behind in the fast-growing market. The company, which released a free mobile and web app in China based on its… Benzinga · Nov 18, 2025
Eric Schmidt Says Free Chinese AI Models Could Overtake Western Systems In Global Use Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt cautioned that the cost and accessibility of AI models could shift global reliance toward Chinese technology, raising geopolitical concerns. Benzinga · Nov 12, 2025
An AI executive's dire warnings about the future are chilling – but his solution is worse than the problem AI has enormous disruptive potential, but trusting tech companies to guide society through the danger is foolish. TechRadar · Nov 12, 2025
Is China about to win the AI race? From subsidized power to open-source innovation, China is mounting a serious challenge to U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence. Fortune · Nov 11, 2025
Will China win the AI race? “China is going to win the AI race,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has told an AI summit in London. The Taiwanese-born boss of the chipmaker, the world’s most valuable public company, believes the Chinese are already just “nanoseconds” behind the Americans and well placed to overtake them. The Conversation · Nov 10, 2025
Within 10 Years, Many Jobs Could Vanish, Warns DeepSeek Senior Researcher at a Chinese Conference DeepSeek senior researcher Chen Deli has warned that AI could replace most human jobs within a decade, urging tech firms to act as "guardians of humanity" during his speech at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China. International Business Times UK · Nov 10, 2025
Tom’s Guide · Nov 9, 2025 I used 5 AI chatbots to plan my vacation — and the winner wasn't ChatGPT Chatbots can be great tools for generating travel itineraries. This included ChatGPT, Deepseek, Gemini, Copilot and Claude.
International Business Times UK · Oct 29, 2025 From Drone Swarms to Robot Dogs — DeepSeek Becomes China's Secret Weapon in AI Arms Race China's PLA is rapidly integrating powerful, domestically developed AI — primarily DeepSeek — into next-generation autonomous weapons, including robot dogs and drone swarms, accelerating the global arms race.
Fortune · Oct 27, 2025 Open-source AI is ‘China’s game right now’—and that’s a problem for the U.S. and its allies, Andreessen Horowitz partner says Andreessen Horowitz partner Anjney Midha says China is leading in open-source AI, driven by startups like DeepSeek, while the U.S. is playing catch-up.
Fortune · Oct 23, 2025 DeepSeek’s new model sees text differently, opening new possibilities for enterprise AI Chinese AI company DeepSeek may have found a way to help large language models see more, remember more, and cost less.
Tom’s Hardware · Oct 21, 2025 New Deepseek model drastically reduces resource usage by converting text and documents into images — 'vision-text compression' uses up to 20 times fewer tokens Developers of the Chinese Deepseek artificial intelligence have found a novel way to reduce the number of tokens it uses, particularly when accessing memories. By converting blocks of text into images and leveraging visual processing rather than text parsing, the AI can reduce the number of tokens required by between…
Tom’s Hardware · Sep 30, 2025 DeepSeek’s new AI model debuts with support for China-native chips and CANN, a replacement for Nvidia's CUDA — Chinese chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, and Hygon get first-class support Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has released its latest large language model, DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, with first-day optimizations for Huawei’s Ascend hardware and CANN software stack.
Geekflare · Sep 30, 2025 DeepSeek Cuts API Costs 50% with V3.2-Exp Launch DeepSeek's latest experimental AI model, called DeepSeek V3.2 Exp, is here. It is built on the company's previous V3.1-Terminus capabilities. The new
Euronews · Sep 30, 2025 China’s DeepSeek unveils new AI model: Here is everything we know about it The announcement comes as China pressures its tech companies to break their reliance on foreign chip makers so it can compete in the AI race.
The Conversation · Sep 28, 2025 Generative AI might end up being worthless — and that could be a good thing In the rush to cash in on the generative artificial intelligence gold rush, one possible outcome of AI’s future rarely gets discussed: what if the technology never works well enough to replace your co-workers, companies fail to use AI well or most AI startups simply fail?
Fortune · Sep 18, 2025 Huawei reveals its Ascend AI chip plans, taking the fight to Nvidia with new superclusters Huawei laid down a roadmap for its Ascend AI chips, an increasingly important product for the company, and China as a whole, amid the U.S.-China tech arms race.
Tom’s Hardware · Sep 18, 2025 China foes get worse results using DeepSeek, research suggests — CrowdStrike finds nearly twice as many flaws in AI-generated code for IS, Falun Gong, Tibet, and Taiwan Research suggests that your DeepSeek AI results can be of drastically lower quality if you trigger China’s geopolitically sensitive tripwires.