Generative AI

Germany tells Apple, Google to remove DeepSeek from the country’s app stores

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Germany has told Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI app DeepSeek from their app stores in the country, saying the app transfers users’ information to China illegally, Reuters reported. Meike Kamp, Germany’s data protection commissioner, told the companies that DeepSeek did not provide “convincing evidence” that users’ data was protected as required by EU

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Elon dips from DOGE, and Silicon Valley enters the ‘find out’ stage

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Elon Musk has officially announced he’s stepping down as a U.S. special government employee and the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE.  The move follows Musk’s cooling relationship with the Trump administration and slumping Tesla sales tied to his political advocacy. Despite his announced departure, Musk gave a

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DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

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DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its

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