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Downloading DeepSeek could lead to jail time and a $1 million fine under new US bill

DeepSeek remains at the top of Apple's App Store

WTF?! Would you be willing to use the App Store-topping DeepSeek if doing so were illegal, potentially landing you behind bars for 20 years and a fine up to $1 million? A senator has introduced a new bill designed to restrict Chinese AI products that would make this bizarre scenario a reality.

Full story By Rob Thubron, February 4, 2025, 6:16 AM 37 comments

Tech Culture The Web

Teens aren't buying Big Tech's promises on AI and online safety

Why young users are skeptical about tech giants' ethics, privacy, and AI decisions

By Alfonso Maruccia, February 3, 2025, 3:01 PM 11 comments

AI Industry

DeepSeek's AI costs far exceed $5.5 million claim, may have reached $1.6 billion with 50,000 Nvidia GPUs

$5.5 million was the pre-training cost

By Rob Thubron, February 3, 2025, 5:19 AM 16 comments

AI Science

Researchers used AI to build groundbreaking nanomaterials lighter and stronger than titanium

"This can ultimately help reduce the high carbon footprint of flying"

By Skye Jacobs, February 2, 2025, 1:18 PM 24 comments

The Web Software

Google Sheets now offers AI-powered charts and data analysis

It can also generate Python code for complex spreadsheet analysis

By Skye Jacobs, February 1, 2025, 12:37 PM

Industry AI

SoftBank seems ready to invest (more) billions in OpenAI

The Japanese conglomerate could become OpenAI's largest investor

By Alfonso Maruccia, February 1, 2025, 7:42 AM

Download of the Week Software

Nvidia Broadcast 2.0 revamps UI, adds new AI effects

Nvidia Broadcast enhances webcams and microphones with AI, leveraging tensor cores for real-time processing. It improves livestream quality through noise removal, virtual backgrounds, auto framing, and more. Version 2.0 introduces a redesigned UI, GPU utilization meter, AI effect previews, and more.

By Erik Orejuela, January 31, 2025, 10:13 AM

AI Microsoft

Microsoft Cloud is now hosting DeepSeek AI model, even though its suspected of illegal data abuse

Redmond is reportedly investigating whether the model "distilled" output from ChatGPT

By Cal Jeffrey, January 30, 2025, 4:39 PM 12 comments

Hardware AI

AMD shows Radeon 7900 XTX outperforms Nvidia RTX 4090 in DeepSeek benchmarks

With the advent of DeepSeek, is Nvidia's reign as the AI hardware leader over?

By Kishalaya Kundu, January 30, 2025, 9:22 AM 14 comments

Security AI

The US Navy warns personnel against using generative AI apps such as DeepSeek

Due to "potential security and ethical concerns associated with the model's origin and usage"

By Rob Thubron, January 30, 2025, 8:14 AM

Industry AI

After DeepSeek stuns the AI world, Alibaba responds with an allegedly more powerful model

The DeepSeek disruption has forced a response from Chinese tech giants

By Zo Ahmed, January 30, 2025, 7:42 AM 9 comments

AI Industry

US Copyright Office rules out copyright for AI created content without human input

AI-assisted editing is allowed, but AI-generated images are not

By Alfonso Maruccia, January 30, 2025, 6:58 AM

Science AI

AI creates glowing protein that would've taken nature 500 million years to evolve

Fast-forwarding evolution

By Zo Ahmed, January 29, 2025, 3:11 PM 11 comments

AI The Web

Microsoft is investigating if DeepSeek illegally accessed OpenAI data to train its AI model

"Substantial evidence" of data theft, says Trump's AI and crypto czar

By Kishalaya Kundu, January 29, 2025, 12:40 PM 21 comments

Software AI

Scientists force chatbots to experience "pain" in their probe for consciousness

When the "pain" was high enough, chatbots acted like they were avoiding it

By Zo Ahmed, January 29, 2025, 11:58 AM 7 comments

AI The Web

France's answer to ChatGPT fails spectacularly, goes offline after three days of bizarre responses

Want some Cows' eggs? How about a meth recipe?

By Rob Thubron, January 29, 2025, 10:44 AM

Hardware AI

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger invests in Nvidia following market dip, calls DeepSeek market reaction "wrong"

He makes his case by citing historical computing trends

By Skye Jacobs, January 29, 2025, 6:15 AM

AI Industry

Nvidia loses record $600 billion market value in one day as DeepSeek AI shakes industry

The Chinese startup has shaken the AI industry

What just happened? Nvidia has once again broken the record for the largest one-day decline of market value in US history. After the release of the open-source R1 AI model by Chinese startup DeepSeek, which caused panic within the industry, Team Green's shares dropped 17%, resulting in its market cap falling by almost $600 billion.

Full story By Rob Thubron, January 28, 2025, 8:18 AM 25 comments

A Review of Nvidia's DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation

FEATURE By Tim Schiesser, January 28, 2025, 5:34 AM TechSpot AI

Multi Frame Generation is one of the standout features in DLSS 4 and the new Nvidia RTX 50 series GPUs. This review dives into its performance, image quality, and whether it's truly worth upgrading for.