<p>DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company, is raising the ire of regulators around the world. DeepSeek&#8217;s viral AI models and chatbot apps have been banned by a growing number of countries and government bodies, which have expressed concerns over DeepSeek&#8217;s ethics, privacy, and security practices. Corporations have banned DeepSeek, too — by the hundreds. The biggest [&hellip;]</p>

<p>India has expanded its Aadhaar authentication service to let businesses such as those in e-commerce, hospitality, and healthcare use the biometrics of individuals to authenticate their identity.</p>

<p>As of Sunday in the European Union, the bloc&#8217;s regulators can ban the use of AI systems they deem to pose &#8220;unacceptable risk&#8221; or harm. February 2 is the first compliance deadline for the EU&#8217;s AI Act, the comprehensive AI regulatory framework that the European Parliament finally approved last March after years of development. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>U.S. senator says Musk&#8217;s access to Treasury systems represents a &#8220;national security risk.&#8221;</p>

<p>People working for, or with, Elon Musk are reportedly taking over the inner workings of multiple government agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management, the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration. The Washington Post reported Friday that the highest-ranking career official at Treasury is leaving the department after &#8220;a clash&#8221; with people working for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>What do you do if a web address you printed on a physical flyer contains a typo, and you send that flyer to more than 100,000 households? Well, if you&#8217;re the Swiss canton (&#8220;state&#8221;) of Basel-Stadt, you buy the domain that contains the typo, and create a redirect to the correct URL. As Swiss news [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Pentagon is rushing to block DeepSeek on its network after some employees used the service, which stores data in China.</p>

<p>U.S. prosecutors are seeking to block the deal citing antitrust concerns.</p>

<p>Chinese AI lab DeepSeek provoked the first Silicon Valley freak-out of 2025 after releasing open versions of AI models that compete with the best technology OpenAI, Meta, and Google have to offer. DeepSeek claims to have built its models highly efficiently and quickly (though some are skeptical of these claims), and is providing these models [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI says it plans to let U.S. National Laboratories, the Department of Energy&#8217;s network of R&amp;D labs, use its AI models for nuclear weapons security and other scientific projects. Per CNBC, OpenAI will work with Microsoft, its lead investor, to deploy a model on the supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The model will be a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google Maps is planning to comply with President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order to rename several American landmarks, including the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. However, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said in a press conference on Wednesday that Mexico will send a letter to Google questioning its choice to update the body of water&#8217;s name. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In the U.S., AI-generated creations — books, movies, and so forth — that have been edited by a human can likely be copyrighted, but those without any human modifications or additions cannot. That&#8217;s according to a report published by the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) on Wednesday, which outlined scenarios in which AI-generated content might be [&hellip;]</p>

<p>These days, nothing is certain about the tech market or the world at large. Even Nvidia&#8217;s seemingly bulletproof stock took a hammering on Monday, enduring a $589 billion market cap decline after China-based DeepSeek raised questions for investors about more efficient AI models. But Apple’s stock has remained steady ahead of its first-quarter earnings report, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In an essay on Wednesday, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, weighed in on the debate over whether Chinese AI company DeepSeek&#8217;s success implies that U.S. export controls on AI chips aren&#8217;t working. Amodei, who recently made the case for stronger export controls in an op-ed co-written with former U.S. deputy national security adviser Matt [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The jury is still out on whether the Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek is a game changer or part of an elaborate plan by its hedge fund parent company to short Nvidia and other tech stocks. Whichever it might be (maybe both?), DeepSeek and its large language model have made some major waves. And now, it’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>David Sacks, Trump&#8217;s AI and crypto &#8220;czar,&#8221; said in an interview on Fox on Tuesday that there&#8217;s &#8220;substantial evidence&#8221; that Chinese AI company DeepSeek &#8220;distilled&#8221; knowledge from OpenAI&#8217;s AI models, a process that Sacks compared to theft. Sacks, who didn&#8217;t cite the source of this &#8220;evidence,&#8221; suggested that DeepSeek used responses from OpenAI models to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt called for the United States to ramp up open source AI efforts to address the rise of DeepSeek in a Washington Post op-ed published Tuesday. Just last year, Schmidt said America was two or three years ahead of China. But DeepSeek&#8217;s rise marks &#8220;a turning point&#8221; for the global AI [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In a week dominated by headlines about China&#8217;s growing AI competitiveness, OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov. The new version of the AI-powered chatbot platform is designed to provide U.S. government agencies an additional way to access the tech. ChatGPT Gov includes many of the capabilities found in OpenAI&#8217;s corporate-focused tier, ChatGPT Enterprise. Using the platform, agencies [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google will rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska&#8217;s Denali mountain in Google Maps once a federal mapping database reflects changes ordered by the Trump administration, the company announced Monday. Google is complying with an executive order issued last week by President Donald Trump that changed the names of several American landmarks. The executive order [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Perplexity AI has submitted a revised proposal to merge with TikTok in an arrangement that would give the U.S. government up to 50% ownership of the new entity. The Associated Press first reported on the new proposal. A source with knowledge of the bid confirmed to TechCrunch that the AP’s reporting is accurate. The AI [&hellip;]</p>