Sources: China is instructing its top AI leaders to avoid visiting the US over fears they could be detained as bargaining chips or divulge confidential info (Yoko Kubota/Wall Street Journal)

Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: China is instructing its top AI leaders to avoid visiting the US over fears they could be detained as bargaining chips or divulge confidential info  —  Beijing increasingly views cutting-edge technology through national-security lens, putting executives on tighter leash

DeepSeek says its V3 and R1 models' cost of inferencing relative to sales during a 24-hour-period on February 28 put "theoretical" profit margins at 545% (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
DeepSeek says its V3 and R1 models' cost of inferencing relative to sales during a 24-hour-period on February 28 put “theoretical” profit margins at 545%  —  Chinese artificial intelligence phenomenon DeepSeek revealed some financial numbers on Saturday, saying its “theoretical” …

Despite breakthroughs from Amazon and Microsoft, quantum computing is far from its silicon moment, with no consensus on the best way to build practical qubits (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Despite breakthroughs from Amazon and Microsoft, quantum computing is far from its silicon moment, with no consensus on the best way to build practical qubits  —  Despite breakthroughs from Amazon and Microsoft, the industry is still a long way from building practical machines

Sources: Larry Ellison's Sensei Ag, a venture backed by his $500M investment to change farming with AI, robotics, and software, has mostly been a bust so far (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal)

Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Larry Ellison's Sensei Ag, a venture backed by his $500M investment to change farming with AI, robotics, and software, has mostly been a bust so far  —  His Sensei Ag company hasn't succeeded in boosting output and nutrition in its greenhouses with AI, robotics and software

Reports of Meta launching standalone Meta AI and Reels apps aren't surprising, as the company has a history of repeatedly bundling and unbundling its products (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Reports of Meta launching standalone Meta AI and Reels apps aren't surprising, as the company has a history of repeatedly bundling and unbundling its products  —  “There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is unbundle.”  While Jim Barksdale's famous quote …

Thailand says TikTok plans to spend $8.8B to build AI data centers across the country over the next five years, more than doubling its earlier target (Pathom Sangwongwanich/Bloomberg)

Pathom Sangwongwanich / Bloomberg:
Thailand says TikTok plans to spend $8.8B to build AI data centers across the country over the next five years, more than doubling its earlier target  —  - Social media platform to invest in data-hosting infrastructure  — Company recently won approval for $3.8 billion outlay