The west is already losing the AI arms race | Larry Elliott

found 2025 › Jan › 30 (Thu) @ 12:08 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Whatever the truth about DeepSeek, China’s tech sector is light years ahead on strategy and investment

For once, Donald Trump was not guilty of hyperbole. The arrival of a budget Chinese chatbot calle…

Former OpenAI safety researcher brands pace of AI development ‘terrifying’

found 2025 › Jan › 29 (Wed) @ 06:58 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Steven Adler expresses concern industry taking ‘very risky gamble’ and raises doubts about future of humanity

A former safety researcher at OpenAI says he is “pretty terrified” about the pace of devel…

How to beat the AI meltdown: As panic over Chinese rival sees US tech stocks crash we reveal if YOUR pension is under threat

found 2025 › Jan › 29 (Wed) @ 06:58 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Your pension and other investments are likely to have had a difficult start to the week. At worst they have fallen in value, at best they are having a bumpy few days.

China's dive into AI shows why Britain must stop letting its tech talent escape overseas, says ALEX BRUMMER

found 2025 › Jan › 29 (Wed) @ 06:58 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Among the lessons of the DeepSeek saga is never underestimate Chinese ingenuity. DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has done it on the cheap.

Vicky Pattison's Channel 4 doc is branded 'excellent and brave' by fans as they commend her for 'shining light on darkest corners of Internet' - despite backlash over decision to make her own deepfake sex tape

found 2025 › Jan › 29 (Wed) @ 06:58 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The former Geordie Shore star, 37, was commended for her 'courage' in creating a her own deepfake sex tape, using AI, to show the struggles victims face from the 'increasingly disturbing' trend.

'Doomsday Clock' highlighting world threats moves closest to destruction

found 2025 › Jan › 29 (Wed) @ 06:58 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

The symbolic clock is set at 89 seconds to midnight, with nuclear threats, AI misuses and climate change being the key factors.

The stock market is always terrible at valuing technology revolutions

found 2025 › Jan › 28 (Tue) @ 22:16 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Investors’ surprise over Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek echoes the belief in first-mover advantage of the dotcom bubble

The DeepSeek panic reveals an AI world ready to blow | James Vincent

found 2025 › Jan › 28 (Tue) @ 22:16 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The R1 chatbot has sent the tech world spinning – but this tells us less about China than it does about western neuroses

The arrival of DeepSeek R1, an AI language model built by the Chinese AI lab De…

Doomsday Clock set closer to midnight than ever to stress global catastrophe risks

found 2025 › Jan › 28 (Tue) @ 22:16 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Atomic scientists push clock to 89 seconds before midnight, citing nuclear risk, AI and climate crisis as a ‘warning’

A panel of international scientists has moved their symbolic “Doomsday Clock” clos…

Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek censors itself in realtime, users report

found 2025 › Jan › 28 (Tue) @ 22:16 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Depending on version downloaded, app approaches its answers with preamble of reasoning that it then erases

We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan

Use…