Is DeepSeek the worst nightmare for VCs? Venture investors are rattled, but some see a silver lining
Much about DeepSeek remains unknown, but VCs who have bet the farm on expensive LLM startups are clearly taking notice.
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Meta's Reality Labs division beat nearly all its sales and user targets for 2024, internal memo says
Meta's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, told employees in an internal post that the company was seeing "massive sales growth in wearables."
Trump's government-worker buyouts are feeling a lot like Musk's Twitter in 2022
The new administration is emailing government employees draft resignation letters. Musk sent a similar email to Twitter staff in 2022.
Microsoft's AI business is booming. It's not enough to soothe investors.
Microsoft reported lower-than-expected revenue growth for its AI and cloud divisions as scrutiny grows over tech's AI investments.
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OpenAI says DeepSeek may have used its AI outputs 'inappropriately' to train new models
DeepSeek built top-performing AI models using less-advanced chips at what it says is a fraction of the cost of rivals such as OpenAI.
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio says this will be China's play in the AI tech wars
Bridgewater's founder, Ray Dalio, talked about DeepSeek, the tech wars, and large-scale AI companies like Nvidia in a recent podcast interview.
The best streaming devices of 2025 for easy access to all your favorite TV apps
Top streaming devices are speedy and intuitive. Here are the best streaming sticks and boxes for cord-cutters from Roku, Apple, Google, and Amazon.
Recruiters share their favorite questions to ask in job interviews — and how candidates should answer them
BI asked a handful of recruiters for their go-to questions to ask in job interviews and what a candidate's answer can reveal.
Trump deepens his push into crypto with Schwab fintech partnership
A week after Trump sparked a meme coin frenzy, the president's social media company announced Truth.Fi, offering financial services for "American patriots."
Elon Musk declined dinner with boss of $1.7 trillion fund that voted against his pay deal: 'Friends are as friends do'
Texts show Elon Musk rejected a dinner invite from Nicolai Tangen, the head of Norway's oil fund, and lectured him on how to be a better friend.
Bernard Arnault says laid-off Meta staff were 'promoted outwards' — and LVMH's Tiffany is doing the same
Bernard Arnault said he spoke with Mark Zuckerberg about Meta layoffs, which the LVMH boss described as workers being "promoted outwards."
'Key beneficiary of TikTok's mishaps:' Meta is one of Wall Street's top AI picks headed into earnings
Wall Street analysts see AI boosting Meta's performance this year. The tech titan could also be a big winner amid the drama swirling around TikTok.
Get ready; tech giants are about to report earnings
Big Tech companies begin reporting after the closing bell, and analysts want to know about DeepSeek's impact.
Tech stocks stage partial recovery after market rout sparked by DeepSeek's rise
Nvidia closed higher on Tuesday as some investors seized an opportunity to buy the chip giant at a discount following its record wipeout on Monday.
China's spring festival celebration featured a fleet of dancing robots that flexed the country's advancements in robotics
A group of 16 humanoid robots performed a Chinese folk dance in Beijing ahead of the Lunar New Year.
TikTok Shop's former boss on how the platform changed e-commerce forever — and how AI is leveling the playing field
Sandie Hawkins led e-commerce at TikTok before joining Teikametrics. She said social commerce and AI have changed online shopping forever.
Everyone is sick of dating apps — so they're turning to 'friendship apps'
Our phones have made us lonelier. These apps promise to find us a BFF.
DeepSeek is going to be the biggest topic in tech earnings this week, analysts say
As US companies prepare for this earnings season, analysts say they should expect to be asked about AI spending following DeepSeek's launch.
Meta is bringing its Reality Labs division closer to its main business, reversing some of Mark Zuckerberg's huge 2021 reorg
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth internally announced a reorg of Reality Labs on Monday.
Sam Altman's latest pitch to cozy up with the US government: ChatGPT Gov
Sam Altman's OpenAI launched ChatGPT Gov on Tuesday, which the company said government agencies could use to input sensitive information.
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Trump's threat of Taiwan chip tariffs could give Nvidia a fresh headache after DeepSeek
President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, which could hit Nvidia, one of TSMC's biggest customers.
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The best Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 cases in 2025
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This Y Combinator startup raised $3 million to bring its AI agents to compliance busywork
Delve, a startup that uses AI agents to collect and verify compliance evidence, launches with $3 million from Y Combinator and others.
Why DeepSeek prompted a $1 trillion tech sell-off
The AI company sent shockwaves through global markets when it released its latest model. Here's what happened.
How smartphones killed Gen Z's creativity — and what bosses can do about it
Dealing with younger employees' evolving attitudes to work was a key topic of discussion for business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Cybersecurity jobs are in high demand. Execs in the field explain why.
Cybersecurity executives explain how the threat landscape has evolved — and why it can be challenging to find the right talent.
Like any millennial, Yahoo wants to be seen as cool again
Yahoo lost out to Google and Meta years ago. Now it's capitalizing on the backlash against them.
DeepSeek sparked a market panic — but some think the sell-off is overblown
China's DeepSeek has panicked investors in top AI stocks after it said its new model was built with less computing power than would be expected.
DeepSeek's founder is being hailed in China as an 'AI hero of Guangdong' after the US market rout
A $1 trillion wipeout in the US stock market has given Liang Wenfeng a new burst of online stardom, with one Chinese paper calling him a "great god."
How the US may have unintentionally helped create an AI monster in China
The US tried to limit China's AI advancements with chip restrictions. It may have fueled the innovation behind DeepSeek instead.
The tech industry is in a frenzy over DeepSeek. Here's who could win and lose from China's AI progress.
DeepSeek's ability to build powerful models more efficiently has put a giant question mark over the US tech industry's approach to AI
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Big AWS customers, including Stripe and Toyota, are hounding the cloud giant for access to DeepSeek AI models
Many Amazon cloud clients want to test and evaluate DeepSeek's AI capabilities, according to an internal AWS document obtained by BI.
What is DeepSeek? Get to know the Chinese startup that shocked the AI industry
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI startup that recently launched a competitive new AI model, R1, with impressive capability at a lower cost.
An on-site natural gas plant will help power Stargate's first data center, public filings show
Developers for Stargate, the $500B AI infrastructure project by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, will establish a natural gas plant in Abilene, Texas.
Meet Liang Wenfeng, the hedge fund manager behind Chinese AI startup DeepSeek
Liang Wenfeng is the founder of DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup potentially upending the industry. Here's everything to know about the hedge funder.
Apple is well-positioned as DeepSeek threatens AI giants, analysts say
Apple could benefit from China's DeepSeek, which appears to deliver cheaper AI models. Its competitors have already spent big on their own efforts.
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Leaked Instagram deals reveal Meta is offering TikTok creators as much as $300,000 to post. Read the contract terms.
With TikTok's US future in limbo, Meta is sending creators exclusive content deals offering thousands of dollars in exchange for Instagram reels.
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DeepSeek just dropped an update AI model called Janus Pro. It says the image generator is better than OpenAI's DALL-E.
DeepSeek says its updated text-to-image generator Janus pro-7B outperforms OpenAI's DALL-E 3 across multiple benchmarks.
DeepSeek's cheaper models and weaker chips call into question trillions in AI infrastructure spending
DeepSeek delivers high-performing, cost-effective models using weaker GPUs, questioning the trillion-dollar spend on US AI firms like OpenAI.
Nvidia plunges 18% and tech stocks slide as China's DeepSeek spooks investors
DeepSeek topped the Apple App Store chart and sparked fears the Chinese company was quickly catching up with OpenAI's ChatGPT while costing far less.
DeepSeek temporarily limited new sign-ups, citing 'large-scale malicious attacks'
The Chinese AI company DeepSeek cited recent "large-scale malicious attacks" for the temporary registration limits.
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The best Samsung Galaxy S25 cases
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This DeepSeek demo shows how good the Chinese AI model is at math and reasoning
DeepSeek models match or beat some of Silicon Valley's top offerings. BI put the Chinese contender through its paces with a challenging math problem.
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Influencer management firm Shine Talent acquires Spark Media as creator deals drive M&A
Influencer talent management firm Shine Talent Group has acquired the fashion and beauty creator agency Spark Talent Group.
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Media agency giant Horizon is on the hunt for acquisitions as advertising M&A heats up
Analysts expect 2025 will be a banner year for advertising M&A following the proposed merger of Omincom and IPG.