Google Maps reclassifies U.S.
Google reclassifies the United States along with China and Russia as sensitive countries, following Trump's remarks about the Gulf of America. According to CNBC, the U.S. was reclassified as a "sensitive country" by Google's maps division on Monday.
While rival chatbots including ChatGPT collect vast quantities of user data, DeepSeek’s use of China-based servers are a key difference and a glaring privacy risk for Americans, experts told The
These days, nothing is certain about the tech market or the world at large. Even NVIDIA's seemingly bulletproof stock took a hammering on Monday, enduring
People across China have taken to social media to hail the success of its homegrown tech startup DeepSeek and its founder, after the company unveiled its newest artificial intelligence model, sending shock waves through Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
A looming ban on TikTok set to take effect on Sunday presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple and Google.
This isn’t just about the TikTok precedent here. It’s about reciprocity, considering that China doesn’t allow products like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Meta AI. Apple Intelligence is also unavailable in China, as Apple has to partner with a local AI provider to release it. By the way, TikTok is also unavailable in China.
DeepSeek released an open-source artificial intelligence model in December, saying it took only two months and less than $6 million to create it.
NVIDIA, the world's most valuable company until Monday, lost $600 billion of market value in a single day, the biggest in US stock history.
The Indian government is scrutinizing DeepSeek, a Chinese AI app, over data security concerns. Officials are particularly cautious about the possibility of Indian user data being stored on Chinese servers.
The competition for AI supremacy heats up among Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen 2.5-Max, DeepSeek’s models, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. DeepSeek’s efficiency challenges established giants, while Alibaba’s release underscores the urgency of adapting to a shifting AI landscape.