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DeepSeek sent ripples through the global tech landscape this week as it soared above ChatGPT in Apple’s app store. The meteoric rise has shifted the dynamics of US-China tech competition, shocked global tech stock valuations, and reshaped the future direction of artificial intelligence (AI) development. Among the industry buzz created by DeepSeek’s rise to prominence, one question looms large: what does this mean for the strategy of the third leading global nation for AI development

All of a sudden, DeepSeek is everywhere. Its R1 model is open source, allegedly trained for a fraction of the cost of other AI models, and is just as good, if not better than ChatGPT. This lethal combination hit Wall Street hard, causing tech stocks to tumble, and making investors question how much money is needed to develop good AI models. DeepSeek engineers claim R1 was trained on 2,788 GPUs which cost around $6 million, compared to OpenAI's GPT-4 which reportedly cost $100 million to train. D

TL;DR: Live stream Los Angeles Lakers vs. Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.The Los Angeles Lakers head to Wells Fargo Center to face the Philadelphia 76ers in a non-conference matchup. The Lakers are 26-18, which puts the team in fifth place in the Western Conference. The Sixers are 17-27, which puts the team in 11th place in the Eastern Conference. The Lakers have won four of their last five games, and are coming off three consecutive wins against the Golden St

TL;DR: Live stream Utah Jazz vs. Golden State Warriors in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.The Utah Jazz head to Chase Center to face the Golden State Warriors in a Western Conference matchup. The Jazz are 10-34, which puts the team in last place in the west, and only ahead of the Washington Wizards in the league. The Warriors are 22-23, which puts the team in 11th place. The Jazz have lost six consecutive games. The team's last win came against the Brooklyn Nets on Jan.12. The six-g

Directed and co-written by Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’s Sophie Hyde, Jimpa is a tale of wish fulfillment on multiple levels — often to its detriment. The first level is its plot, which follows an Australian filmmaker, Hannah (Olivia Colman), taking her nonbinary teenager Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) to visit her idiosyncratic gay father, Jim (John Lithgow), in Amsterdam, as she begins work on a movie that idealizes her family’s past.The second level is the film’s own making

TikTok has staved off a ban for as long as it can, but if something doesn't change by April 5, the ban will go into effect — and likely for longer than the few hours it was down earlier this month.One way TikTok can avoid a total ban in the U.S. is for its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to divest from the app. According to President Donald Trump, ByteDance is considering doing just that. SEE ALSO:As TikTok faces a ban, creators brace for an uncertain future
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Cactus Pears (Sabar Bonda), Rohan Parashuram Kanawade’s semi-autobiographical debut feature about a queer romance experienced amid mourning is the only movie from India competing at the Sundance Film Festival. The story of love and grief in a rural setting came to Kanawade while coping with his own father’s death, as he wondered how different processing the loss might have felt if he had a companion with whom to escape. Regardless of the competition’s outcome in the World Cinem

Apple has officially launched iOS 18.3, bringing fresh updates to iPhones worldwide. While it doesn’t pack the same headline-grabbing punch as iOS 18.2’s packed Apple Intelligence upgrades, the latest version still offers some decent enhancements, especially for fans of Apple’s growing Visual Intelligence capabilities.SEE ALSO:The Apple iPad Mini is back down to its lowest-ever price
While Visual Intelligence steals the spotlight, iOS 18.3 also smooths out a few rough edges. Ex

In what President Donald Trump called a "wake-up call" for U.S. tech companies (implicating members of his innermost circle, as well), DeepSeek has upended the current market and introduced a new more cost effective alternative to the world of advanced reasoning AI. The supercharged reasoning model is enticingly good at what it does, outperforming some of the most popular models on the market in tests of its logical reasoning, coding, and mathematical abilities. In the days since its sudden arri

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Last week, Samsung gave us a tiny glimpse at its upcoming XR headset. This week, a tech YouTuber gave us an actual, substantial look at it.Project Moohan is the codename for the upcoming headset, which was only very briefly shown during the company's Galaxy Unpacked livestream. At the time, we didn't see much of anything other than an image of the device itself, but prominent tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee posted an exclusive hands-on video with the device on his channel on Monday.There are a fe

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Black Panther and Creed director Ryan Coogler reunites with longtime collaborator Michael B. Jordan for Sinners, one of the most anticipated thrillers of the year. The director's first foray into horror, it's also a genre film shrouded in mystery, with rumours of vampires and Mississippi blues swirling around the internet.Interviewed in a press conference by Juju Green on Monday, the director gave more details about what to expect from his first film back on celluloid since Fruitvale S

DeepSeek proves that Silicon Valley can’t monopolise AI innovation, according to a European AI entrepreneur. Muj Choudhury, the CEO and co-founder of British voice processing startup RocketPhone, welcomed DeepSeek’s rapid rise. He hopes the Chinese company signals a shift in the balance of AI power. “AI development has long been dominated by Silicon Valley’s powerful VC firms, which wield immense influence by pouring vast sums into the technology and shaping its trajecto

Spanish tech star TravelPerk has raised a whopping $200mn and sealed the acquisition of expenses platform Yokoy. The investment values TravelPerk at $2.7bn — almost double last year’s $1.4bn valuation. The business travel giant said the funds would fuel further product development and expansion into the US. European VC firm Atomico led the Series E investment. Alongside the cash injection, TravelPerk announced the purchase of Yokoy, a Swiss startup that’s become a market leade

U.S. tech companies are known to stockpile as much user data as they can, but DeepSeek's privacy policy makes Meta, Google, and OpenAI look tame. Over the past few days, China-based AI startup DeepSeek has catapulted into tech consciousness with an open-source model that many claim is just as good, if not better, than OpenAI models and API costs for a fraction of the price. DeepSeek R1 might be significantly cheaper to run, but your privacy and security are the actual cost. L

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Move over ChatGPT, there's a new contender to the throne. Chinese startup DeepSeek AI blasted its way to the top of Apple's App Store this week, hammering U.S. tech stocks in the process — and reacting to the news on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart was shocked and appalled."I was promised a new era of American prosperity and greatness!" says the host in the clip above. "DeepSeek? DeepSeek? We're getting our asses kicked by DeepSeek? Who names an AI company after the thing it actually does? Whe

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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has captured the tech world's attention in a way we haven't seen since ChatGPT and now, Donald Trump's got something to say about it, too. "The release of DeepSeek, AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win," said the president, addressing House Republicans in Miami on Monday. The comments come after a red day in the U.S. stock market, in which Nvidia shed more than $500 billion in market

The Super Bowl LIX matchup is set and it's one that should feel familiar: The Kansas City Chiefs will face-off with the Philadelphia Eagles. It's a rematch of the Super Bowl from two years ago. The Chiefs won that first matchup, 38-35, and this go-round they'll be looking to win their third Super Bowl in a row — a feat accomplished by no other NFL team. The Eagles, of course, will be looking for redemption. We've got all the details ahead of the big game. When to watchSure, you might be ex

In If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You, Rose Byrne’s face becomes the close-up canvas for a wildly unsettling comedy-drama. Written and directed by Mary Bronstein — her first feature in 17 years following Yeast— the film follows Byrne as Linda, a mother hanging on by a thread during what appears to be a prolonged nervous spiral. Mirroring her experience, it’s a deeply anxiety-inducing work, whose high-strung energy is owed to a daring audio-visual approach that ought not to

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