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Trending News: Factorial Capital takes a fresh approach to finding startups with a technical edgeData center operator DataBank nets $250M equity investmentHow DeepSeek changed Silicon Valley’s AI landscapeAI creations edited by humans can likely be copyrighted in US, agency saysMicrosoft’s Copilot-focused Surface Pro and Laptop PCs ship with Snapdragon and Intel optionsOpenAI will offer its tech to US national labs for nuclear weapons researchLittle Umbrella’s next Jackbox-style game pits you and your friends against an AI game show host Ai2 says its new AI model beats one of DeepSeek’s bestSuperOps bags $25M to use AI and better help managed service providersData analytics startup Athenic AI wants to be an enterprise’s central nervous systemIndia lauds Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, plans to host its models on local serversSoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25B in OpenAI, report saysZuck shrugs off DeepSeek, vows to spend hundreds of billions on AIWhat DeepSeek, China, and Trump mean for Apple ahead of its Q1 earningsDeepSeek might have a trademark problem in the U.S.Microsoft brings a DeepSeek model to its cloudReport: Majority of U.S. teens have lost trust in Big TechAnthropic’s CEO says DeepSeek shows US export rules are workingForget ‘Founder Mode,’ what about Customer Mode?Resolution Games announces Battlemarked, an upcoming VR Dungeons & Dragons gameThis Bay Area startup is using AI to help families navigate long-term care planningClutch grabs $20M to build out its non-human security ID platformTechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Only 3 days left for 2-for-1 PassChatGPT’s mobile users are 85% male, report saysMicrosoft probing whether DeepSeek improperly used OpenAI APIsDeepSeek’s AI avoids answering 85% of prompts on ‘sensitive topics’ related to ChinaMeteomatics eyes U.S. expansion for its enterprise-focused weather forecasting toolsDeepSeek reaches No. 1 on US Play StoreItaly sends first data watchdog request to DeepSeek: ‘The data of millions of Italians is at risk’SoftBank to invest $500M in robotics startup SkildAIDeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot appDeepSeek triggered a wild, baseless rally for some Chinese stocksDavid Sacks claims there’s ‘substantial evidence’ that DeepSeek used OpenAI’s models to train its ownFigure AI details plan to improve humanoid robot safety in the workplaceWho is Liang Wenfeng? DeepSeek founder comes from AI investingEric Schmidt says DeepSeek marks a ‘turning point’ for the global AI raceHugging Face researchers are trying to build a more open version of DeepSeek’s AI ‘reasoning’ modelHugging Face makes it easier for devs to run AI models on third-party cloudsOpenAI launches ChatGPT plan for U.S. government agenciesAtomicwork gets backing from Khosla for its AI alternative to old-school IT software like ServiceNowReid Hoffman’s Manas AI raises $24.6M, a fraction of other AI drug discovery startupsFormer Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is already using DeepSeek instead of OpenAI at his startup, GlooNvidia drops $600B off its market cap amid the rise of DeepSeekHow to switch off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone, iPad, and MacQuartz has been quietly publishing AI-generated news articlesAlibaba’s Qwen team releases AI models that can control PCs and phonesDeepSeek displaces ChatGPT as the App Store’s top appOpenAI-backed 1X acquires Kind HumanoidHow DeepSeek’s efficient AI could stall the nuclear renaissanceViral AI company DeepSeek releases new image model familyAI startup DeepSeek pauses signups amid cyber incidentMeta AI can now use your Facebook and Instagram data to personalize its responsesGrok 3 seemingly went live for some usersTechCrunch Disrupt 2025: 5 Days left to claim your 2 for 1 Passes at the lowest rate of the yearMistral’s origin story has an insuretech founder at its heartDeepSeek ‘punctures’ tech spending plans, and what analysts are sayingDeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talkingWhy Reid Hoffman feels optimistic about our AI futureWill states lead the way on AI regulation?Paul McCartney calls on UK government to protect artists from AIIn motion to dismiss, chatbot platform Character AI claims it is protected by the First AmendmentAI companies upped their federal lobbying spend in 2024 amid regulatory uncertaintyElevenLabs has raised a new round at $3B+ valuation led by ICONIQ Growth, sources sayStargate will use solar and batteries to power $100B AI venturePeople are benchmarking AI by having it make balls bounce in rotating shapesThe AI industry’s pace has researchers stressedHow are founders positioning themselves for the next 4 years?Sam Altman’s World now wants to link AI agents to your digital identityMark Zuckerberg says Meta will have 1.3M GPUs for AI by year-endOpenAI’s Stargate project reportedly doesn’t have the money it needsReliance plans world’s biggest AI data centre in India, report saysEven some of the best AI can’t beat this new benchmarkOpenAI says it may store deleted Operator data for up to 90 daysAnthropic’s new Citations feature aims to reduce AI errorsEpic brings third-party titles to its mobile game storeOpenAI and SoftBank are reportedly putting $19B each into StargateOpenAI and SoftBank are reportedly putting $19B each into StargatePerplexity launches an assistant for AndroidRoli releases a 49-key educational keyboard and generative AI playOpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomouslyChatGPT suffered a major outage this morning, but OpenAI says it’s back upMeta’s Yann LeCun predicts a ‘new AI architectures paradigm’ within 5 years and ‘decade of robotics’Hugging Face claims its new AI models are the smallest of their kindCoval evaluates AI voice and chat agents like self-driving carsFundraise Up claims its AI can boost nonprofit donationsOpenAI may preview its agent tool for users on the $200 per month Pro planNeko, the body-scanning startup co-founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek, snaps up $260M at a $1.8B valuationSomeone bought the domain ‘OGOpenAI’ and redirected it to a Chinese AI labMicrosoft’s relationship with OpenAI cracked when it hired Mustafa Suleyman, rival Marc Benioff saysThis Week in AI: OpenAI gains an invaluable infrastructure advantageSamsung Unpacked: Samsung’s Galaxy S25 will support Content Credentials to identify AI-generated imagesSamsung Unpacked 2025 live updates: Galaxy S25, new AI features, and moreElon Musk and Sam Altman take to social media to fight over StargateGoogle makes Circle to Search more helpfulSamsung Galaxy S25 line comparedSamsung’s Galaxy S25 arrives with a better Google GeminiSamsung’s SmartThings to introduce AI features that simplify your daily routinesAI apps saw over $1 billion in consumer spending in 2024Anthropic reportedly secures an additional $1B from GoogleAI’s $100 billion impact: 2024’s venture capital surge and the road ahead for startups
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SoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25B in OpenAI, report says

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SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI as part of a broader partnership that could see the Japanese conglomerate spend more than $40 billion on AI initiatives with the Microsoft-backed startup, according to Financial Times. The potential investment would make SoftBank OpenAI’s largest single backer, the report said, surpassing Microsoft, […]

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