San Francisco: Chinese startup DeepSeek’s cheaper AI is sharpening investor scrutiny of the billions U.S. tech giants are pouring to develop the technology and analysts say it will dominate this week’s much-awaited results from industry bellwethers. DeepSeek has claimed it took just two months and cost under $6 million to build an AI model using … Read more
San Francisco: Chinese AI sensation DeepSeek on Monday said it was limiting the registration of new users due to large-scale cyberattacks on its services. The company, whose chatbot took over OpenAI’s ChatGPT as Apple’s top downloaded app on Monday, cited “large-scale malicious attacks” for outages and its inability to take on new users. DeepSeek, which … Read more
Copenhagen: A piece of fossilised vomit, dating back to when dinosaurs roamed the earth, has been discovered in Denmark, the Museum of East Zealand said on Monday. The find was made by a local amateur fossil hunter on the Cliffs of Stevns, a UNESCO-listed site south of Copenhagen. While out on a walk, Peter Bennicke … Read more
Jerusalem: Eight of the hostages due for release in the first phase of a truce deal between Israel and Hamas are dead, Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said Monday. “The families have been informed of the situation of their relatives,” Mencer told reporters, without providing the names of the victims. That means that of the … Read more
A new school textbook that likens Russia’s war in Ukraine to the Soviet struggle against the Nazis and says Russia was “forced” to send troops into Ukraine was presented in Moscow on Monday. President Vladimir Putin casts the war, which Moscow officially calls a “Special Military Operation”, as a difficult but necessary fight against a … Read more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is constantly evolving, and there’s a new player in the market. DeepSeek, a new AI model from China, has captured the attention of the tech world, surpassing the likes of ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude AI in performance. What is DeepSeek? DeepSeek is an advanced AI model developed by a Hangzhou-based research lab of … Read more
New Delhi: India and China held a two-day foreign secretary-level talks in which it was decided to resume Kailash-Mansarovar yatra in the summer. The relevant mechanism will discuss the modalities for doing so as per existing agreements, the foreign ministry said in a statement. There was also an in-principle agreement for resumption of direct flights … Read more
A chilling message of distress has emerged from the ashes of the recent wildfires in a Los Angeles region near a shipping port. Social media users have been captivated by the words “help” and “traffico,” eerily visible in the scorched earth on Google Earth’s satellite imagery, serving as a poignant reminder of the devastation wrought … Read more
Tehran: Amid Western concerns about Tehran and Moscow’s growing military cooperation, Iran said it has purchased Russian-made Sukhoi-35 fighter jets. Iran’s air force has only a few dozen strike aircraft, including Russian jets as well as ageing US models acquired before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The new jets will bolster Tehran’s military capabilities. “The production … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday held a telephonic conversation with Donald Trump, a week after his inauguration as US President, and congratulated his “dear friend on his historic second term”. “Delighted to speak with my dear friend President @realDonaldTrump @POTUS. Congratulated him on his historic second term. We are committed to a mutually beneficial and … Read more
Beijing: India and China should meet each other halfway and commit themselves to mutual understanding rather than mutual suspicion, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday as he met Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri here. Misri is here on a two-day visit for talks with Chinese officials to improve India-China relations, in the second such … Read more
Stocks of global tech giants Nvidia Corp and ASML Holding NV fell after growing buzz around Chinese startup DeepSeek’s latest AI model. It is reportedly capable of delivering comparable performance to chatbots such as ChatGPT despite running on less advanced chips. Nvidia and ASML have been at the forefront of the AI stock boom seen … Read more