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Pentagon scrambles to block DeepSeek after employees connect to Chinese servers

Government & Policy /

DeepSeek’s terms of service explicitly states it stores user data on Chinese servers and that it governs that data under Chinese law — which mandates cooperation with the country’s intelligence agencies. But that didn’t stop U.S. Department of Defense workers from getting caught up in the DeepSeek hype this week and connecting their work computers […]

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Apple quarterly revenue increases, even as China sales decline 11%

Hardware /

Apple’s latest earnings were a mixed bag filled with slipping iPhone sales and countered by rising revenue. Reporting after the bell Thursday, the iPhone maker’s overall revenue in the first quarter of 2025 beat Wall Street expectations, with a 4% bump to $124.3 billion over the same time last year. Apple reported net income of

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DeepSeek exposed internal database containing chat histories and sensitive data

Security /

Chinese AI company DeepSeek has fixed an exposed back-end database that was spilling sensitive information, including user chat histories and API keys, to the open internet. The DeepSeek database was not protected with a password, allowing anyone on the internet to access more than a million unencrypted logs inside.  Security researchers at cloud giant Wiz

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India lauds Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, plans to host its models on local servers

AI /

India’s IT minister on Thursday praised DeepSeek‘s progress and said the country will host the Chinese AI lab’s large language models on domestic servers, in a rare opening for Chinese technology in India. “You have seen what DeepSeek has done — $5.5 million and a very very powerful model,” IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on

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What DeepSeek, China, and Trump mean for Apple ahead of its Q1 earnings

Hardware /

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 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

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DeepSeek’s AI avoids answering 85% of prompts on ‘sensitive topics’ related to China

AI /

AI chatbot DeepSeek has taken the world by storm, topping app store charts and sending Silicon Valley and Wall Street into meltdown. An offshoot of Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, DeepSeek’s cost-to-performance ratio makes for impressive reading compared to incumbents such as OpenAI. However, reports have increasingly documented some of the things the AI chatbot is

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Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in “horribly shortsighted” decision

Security /

On Tuesday, a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as the new U.S. president, the Department of Homeland Security told members of several advisory committees that they were effectively fired.  Among the committees impacted is the Cyber Security Review Board, or CSRB, according to sources familiar with the board who spoke to TechCrunch, as well as

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Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang has published an open letter lobbying Trump to invest in AI

AI /

Alexandr Wang, the CEO of Scale AI, has taken out a full-page ad in The Washington Post asking the Trump administration to invest more in AI. Wang, who attended Trump’s inauguration on Monday like many other tech CEOs, posted a copy of the ad on X, which reads “Dear President Trump, America must win the

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Duolingo sees 216% spike in U.S. users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote

Social /

TikTok U.S. users have been learning Chinese on Duolingo in increasing numbers amid their adoption of a Chinese social app called RedNote ahead of the TikTok ban. The U.S. law, scheduled to go into effect on January 19, unless halted by the Supreme Court, will see TikTok removed from U.S. app stores and will stop

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