Google’s maps division reportedly reclassified the US as a “sensitive country" – like Russia and China – on Monday. It's a designation it reserves for states/countries with strict governments and border disputes.
Following President Trump’s declarations about changes to the map, Google employees were given the highest level of urgency to reclassify the U.S.
Investors sold tech stocks over concerns that a low-cost Chinese AI model would threaten market dominance of US-based AI leaders US officials are looking at the national security implications of the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek,
People across China have taken to social media to hail the success of its homegrown tech startup DeepSeek and its founder, after the company unveiled its newest artificial intelligence model, sending shock waves through Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
When Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek rocketed to the top of the AI race over the weekend, it upended not just a ruthless corporate competition for tech supremacy but a geopolitical one. America was supposed to be the world leader on AI; suddenly, China had a credible claim.
Investors sold technology stocks across the globe over the emergence of the low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NVIDIA, the world's most valuable company until Monday, lost $600 billion of market value in a single day, the biggest in US stock history.
DeepSeek researchers claim it was developed for less than $6 million, a contrast to the $100 million it takes U.S. tech startups to create AI.
Eric Schmidt, former CEO and chairman of Google, is co-founder of Schmidt Sciences and chair of the nonpartisan think tank Special Competitive Studies Project. Dhaval Adjodah is co-founder and CEO of MakerMaker.AI.
This isn’t just about the TikTok precedent here. It’s about reciprocity, considering that China doesn’t allow products like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Meta AI. Apple Intelligence is also unavailable in China, as Apple has to partner with a local AI provider to release it. By the way, TikTok is also unavailable in China.
Suspicions were confirmed when it was discovered that popular Chinese AI DeepSeek sends a tremendous amount of user data to servers in China.