DeepSeek says it used Nvidia H800 chips, available in China until October 2023, to train R1, suggesting future models could be hampered by US export controls — - Nvidia calls R1 an ‘excellent’ advance that meets US limits — Trump says release should be a ‘wake-up call’ for US companies
EU appeals hearing: Google accuses the EC of making “grave errors” in its Android investigation that led to a record €4.3B fine; EU lawyers defended the case — - EU's top court weighs in on bloc's biggest ever antitrust fine — Lower-tier court earlier cut fine down to €4.1 billion
SAP reports Q4 cloud revenue up 27% YoY to €4.71B, above €4.68B est., driven by AI demand, names a suite of new executives, and plans to simplify its strategy — - Cloud revenue grew 27% last quarter from a year earlier — The company named new marketing, technology leadership
How DeepSeek outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost: open-source approach, pure reinforcement learning, not supervised fine-tuning, and building on DeepSeek-R1-Zero — DeepSeek R1's Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what's required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance.
A look at the surveillance tech that could power Trump's immigration crackdown; a review of 15K+ contracts shows ICE and USCIS spent $7.8B on tech since 2020 — Border enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people.
US tech stocks fell sharply pre-market over DeepSeek concerns, with NVDA down 8%+ and META and MSFT down 3%; ASML fell 9%+; Japanese chip companies also dropped — Start-up's model raises questions about need for huge western hardware investment — Tech stocks fell sharply on Monday …
Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...
