Chinese research firm DeepSeek has released a new AI model that it says can be operated more cheaply than the large language models common in the West.
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WALMART AND ITS WORKFORCE BRACE FOR AN AI TRANSFORMATION
“Maybe there’s a job in the world that AI won’t change,” Walmart CEO Doug McMillon told a September workforce conference, “but I haven’t thought of it.”
GET TO WORK, AI!
After an MIT study found that half of corporations that try AI abandon it and only 5 percent have seen AI’s contribution to the bottom line, two developers are touting research that highlights AI’s potential in the workplace.
WILL AI EVER BE ABLE TO PAY BACK ITS MASSIVE INVESTMENT?
“The artificial intelligence boom has ushered in one of the costliest building sprees in world history,” The Wall Street Journal wrote in a 27 September analysis.
WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
U.S. employers have laid off nearly 95,000 people in the first nine months of the year, according to a recent report by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
AI ACTOR CONTROVERSY GOT REAL THIS WEEK (AND WAS FORECAST BY THIS WRITER IN 1998)
Some of Hollywood’s biggest agencies appear to think that the next generation of movie stars will be led by next gen AI creations.
AI CAN’T AFFORD THE FUTURE IT’S CONSTRUCTING, REPORT SAYS
AI developers are rushing to build data centers and the electric infrastructure to power them, but are doing a much less effective job of planning how to earn the revenue that will support that infrastructure, a new report from research and analysis firm Bain & Co. says.
OPENAI INKS NEW DEALS WORTH $400 BILLION
OpenAI has signed deals with Nvidia and Oracle that total $400 billion in value. The creator of ChatGPT has pledged to buy $300 billion in cloud computing services from Oracle from 2027 through 2031.
‘STARGATE OF CHINA’ PLANS TO CHALLENGE WEST’S AI DOMINANCE
In the West, the Stargate partnership of OpenAI, Oracle, and funder Softbank have set out to build $500 billion in AI data centers in the U.S. and more elsewhere around the world.
STARGATE ADDS FIVE U.S. SITES
Stargate, the partnership among OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank to build data centers around the world, has announced the location of its next five U.S. projects.









