Tag: In Brief

‘Hundreds’ of companies are blocking DeepSeek over China data risks

DeepSeek took the U.S. by storm this week: The Chinese company’s chatbot rose to the top of the Apple and Play stores, while...

Guo’s Conviction Partners adds Mike Vernal as GP, raises $230M fund

When in mid-2022 Sarah Guo left Greylock to launch her own AI-focused fund, Conviction Partners, she indicated that she was tagging the word...

Swiss tax authority forced to buy Bahamas domain name after URL typo

What do you do if a web address you printed on a physical flyer contains a typo, and you send that flyer to...

OpenAI said to be in talks to raise $40B at a $340B valuation

OpenAI may have billions of dollars in the bank. But it’s gearing up to raise billions more, according to a report from The...

David Sacks claims there’s ‘substantial evidence’ that DeepSeek used OpenAI’s models to train its own

David Sacks, Trump’s AI and crypto “czar,” said in an interview on Fox on Tuesday that there’s “substantial evidence” that Chinese AI company...

Eric Schmidt says DeepSeek marks a ‘turning point’ for the global AI race

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt called for the United States to ramp up open source AI efforts to address the rise of DeepSeek...