In 2023 through 2024, venture capitalists dumped about $155 billion into AI, data service Pitchbook reported. OpenAI alone has collected $24 billion, with Anthropic—founded by OpenAI alumni—raising $16 billion.
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INVESTORS RETREAT FROM GLOBAL AI SUPPLY CHAIN
Share prices for companies from European gas turbine builders and uranium miners to natural gas producers and electric utilities dove earlier this month after Chinese upstart AI developer DeepSeek announced its new model R1.
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HOW DEEPSEEK SURPRISED THE WORLD
A tech prodigy starts a research-level company and hires a team of creative young engineers unhampered by experience. The company uncovers a loophole that lets it gain access to some newer U.S.-made AI chips.
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HOW GOOD—AND HOW INEXPENSIVE—IS DEEPSEEK’S R1 REALLY?
Since DeepSeek’s new R1 chatbot made its debut, experts across the industry have put it through paces ranging from writing Dad jokes to complex math calculations.
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DEEPSEEK ERASES FUNDAMENTAL ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT AI
Stock markets’ ebullience through much of 2024 was due to AI. Nvidia became a $3-trillion company as it piled up back orders for its state-of-the-art AI chips.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS
Some in the media were suddenly interested in the subject of stolen IP, after revelations that China’s Deepseek.ai likely heisted datasets and more from its American competitor OpenAI.
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AI ARMS RACE, HUMANITY IN THE CROSSHAIRS
OpenAI safety researcher Steven Adler revealed this past week that he had left OpenAI in late 2024, over concerns about the way AI was being developed at the company.
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CRISPR FUTURE: WHO ARE YOUR DADDIES?
“Humans are off limits for now…” That line is from a 28 January MIT Technology Review detailing new experiments that have combined genetics from two same sex “parents” to create offspring.
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
Trump Media, started after MSM and social media platforms censored the sitting President during the 2020 election, and after the massive January 6 protests against election fraud, is moving into crypto and Defi.
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MOVES TO HOLD BITCOIN AS STRATEGIC ASSET WILL EXPAND
More companies are acquiring and holding bitcoin as a reserve asset every day. And more government entities in 2025 will be joining them.