BEIJING — Chinese businesses are tapping DeepSeek’s newest artificial intelligence model to see how it can improve productivity. The Chinese AI model took the world by storm in recent weeks after showcasing its reasoning process and claims to undercut rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT on cost — despite U.S. restrictions on Chinese access to the advanced semiconductors … Read more
Megacap technology companies funneled billions of dollars into artificial intelligence last year to try and keep up with unfettered demand. The hype isn’t dying down in 2025. Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft intend to spend as much as $320 billion combined on AI technologies and datacenter buildouts in 2025, based on comments from their CEOs … Read more
The Bank of England on 6 Feb. 2025, in London, England. Richard Baker | In Pictures | Getty Images The Bank of England lowered interest rates by 25 basis points on Thursday, following the European Central Bank’s cut of the same amount on Jan. 30. The Reserve Bank of India is also widely expectedly to … Read more
People shop for clothes at a Calvin Klein store at a mall in Beijing on Feb. 5, 2025. Adek Berry | AFP | Getty Images China has blacklisted the owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, which could force the company to shut down stores and manufacturing in an early repercussion of President Donald Trump’s … Read more
An Apple Store in the Jiefangbei commercial district, adorned with a golden apple and snake motif to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Snake, on Jan. 14, 2025 in Chongqing, China. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Apple shares fell on Wednesday after Bloomberg reported that Chinese regulators are considering whether to … Read more
Apple’s overall revenue rose by 4% in its first fiscal quarter, but it missed on Wall Street’s iPhone sales expectations and saw sales in China decline 11.1%, the company reported on Thursday. Shares rose nearly 3% after the company gave a forecast for the March quarter. Here’s how Apple did versus LSEG consensus estimates for … Read more
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holds a Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU (L) and a RTX 5000 laptop as he delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Nvidia lost close to $600 billion in market cap … Read more
DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services, though existing users will be able to log in as usual. The Chinese artificial intelligence startup has generated a lot of buzz in recent weeks as a fast-growing rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and other leading … Read more
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet shares closed at $200 per share for the first time on Friday as investors grow increasingly bullish on the company’s opportunities in artificial intelligence. The stock gained 1.1% on Friday and a little more than 2% for the week to close … Read more
TikTok was available to some U.S. users on Sunday after President-elect Donald Trump said that he would sign an executive order on Monday following his inauguration to delay a federal ban of the app. In a statement on X, the company wrote that it would bring back access to its American users. “In agreement with … Read more