Does Humanity Have a Future?
Right now, two premises guide my sense of the human situation. First: The virtual age and its advances are making a lot of ...
Sudden emergence of DeepSeek may accelerate AI innovation in Silicon Valley, experts say
The sudden emergence of DeepSeek in the global artificial intelligence competition has sparked questions about its impact on Silicon Valley giants like Nvidia and fledgling startups across the Bay ...
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The Social Critic Who Predicted Big Tech’s Dark Turn
Peter Richardson has written critically acclaimed books about Carey McWilliams, Ramparts magazine, and the Grateful Dead. His new book is called Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road ...
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Artificial intelligence is bringing nuclear power back from the dead — maybe even in California
Energy demands from big tech, including for AI, has elected officials giving an old power source a second look.
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The buildings that Nvidia has agreed to buy from affiliates of Sobrato Organization have addresses of 2701, 2711, 2721 and ...
Viewpoint: Beware the concentration of AI power
A vetoed bill to regulate AI had a concept called CalCompute, which would have made the essential infrastructure for ...
No, DeepSeek isn’t America’s AI Sputnik moment
The release of DeepSeek’s innovative and efficient artificial intelligence model has been heralded as such a turning point — ...
Why ‘Distillation’ Has Become the Scariest Word for AI Companies
DeepSeek’s success learning from bigger AI models raises questions about the billions being spent on the most advanced ...
Silicon Valley Scrambles Following DeepSeek Bombshell
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt also took a serious approach to the launch, describing DeepSeek as a "turning point" in a Washington Post op-ed, and that U.S. approaches to development would change as ...
Why Trump picked a science adviser who isn’t a scientist
Michael Kratsios, who served in the White House and Defense Department in the first Trump administration, is a policy ...
What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI app challenging OpenAI and Silicon Valley?
DeepSeek is a new artificial intelligence chatbot that’s sending shock waves through Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Washington. The app, named after the Chinese start-up that built it, rocketed to ...
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Chinese Startup DeepSeek Bests Silicon Valley’s ChatGPT in Major AI Upset
DeepSeek’s free, open-source AI model is upending financial predictions and causing major turmoil in the stock market.