US banning Chinese AI DeepSeek from government agency IT systemsThe department is also banning acquisition of DeepSeek products and third-party services developed using DeepSeek by US civilian government...
19 Oct, 2026, 11.59 PM IST
How one hacker used AI agents and a few thousand dollars to break into scores of sitesA cybersecurity researcher observed a Chinese-speaking hacker employing AI to compromise various companies' websites. The hacker utilised a...
19 Oct, 2026, 04.19 PM IST
DeepSeek pushes out updated AI model it says is faster, leanerThe firm unveiled the V4.1-Flash-1017 late Saturday afternoon with a series of posts on X saying the update had “stronger benchmark perform...
17 Oct, 2026, 09.53 PM IST
Meta’s Muse Spark Open is free to download, but comes with strings attachedThe main commercial restriction applies to companies that offer AI models as a service, giving customers model outputs through an applicati...
16 Oct, 2026, 01.24 PM IST
ET AI Explainer: Why are US AI labs wary of 'distillation attacks' from Chinese peersDistillation as a technique in which a less capable AI model is trained on the outputs of a stronger one. The aim is to help the less capab...
15 Oct, 2026, 05.31 PM IST
Researchers find 'Chinese fleet' of rogue AI probing AlibabaMore than a dozen agents suspected to be Chinese models operating on Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s cloud services attempted to access Alibaba Gro...
14 Oct, 2026, 09.01 PM IST
Intel CEO says Chinese frontier AI model adoption has been 'very fast'At a recent panel, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan discussed the swift integration of Chinese frontier AI models like DeepSeek, Kimi, and GLM. He note...
12 Oct, 2026, 01.23 PM IST
Moonshot execs in talks to settle dispute with shareholder ahead of planned IPO, people sayMoonshot, a Chinese AI startup, is currently in discussions with Recurrent.ai amidst a backdrop of legal challenges concerning alleged misc...
12 Oct, 2026, 09.24 AM IST
Nvidia in talks to invest further in Reflection AI or buy it: FTTalks are at an early stage and a deal could take several forms, including a so-called acqui-hire arrangement where Nvidia would hire staff...
11 Oct, 2026, 03.15 PM IST
Nvidia in talks to buy Reflection AI or deepen its investment, FT reportsNvidia is in talks to deepen its investment in startup Reflection AI or acquire it, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing people...
11 Oct, 2026, 01.23 AM IST
China AI developers publish safety tests for just 3.6% of model releases, report findsOnly a fraction of the 857 AI models released by Chinese companies have undergone safety testing, with merely 3.6% revealing published eval...
09 Oct, 2026, 06.19 PM IST
Chinese developer makes ARTEX AI agent closed-source after Korean bank hackThe Chinese developer of ARTEX said they have converted the AI agent to a closed-source project after cybersecurity firms identified it as ...
09 Oct, 2026, 09.29 AM IST
DeepSeek to raise at least $12 billion in Tencent-backed fundingChinese AI startup DeepSeek is close to securing at least 80 billion yuan ($11.93 billion) in its latest round of funding, Bloomberg News r...
06 Oct, 2026, 11.41 AM IST
Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils first AI model to take on Chinese open modelsNvidia-backed Reflection AI debuted its first open-weight model named Beam on Monday, as the startup aims to compete with lower-cost Chines...
06 Oct, 2026, 08.47 AM IST
DeepSeek partners with Huawei to develop chip programming tools, reducing reliance on NvidiaChinese AI firm DeepSeek said on Wednesday it has partnered with Huawei Technologies to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips...
30 Sep, 2026, 08.53 AM IST
Beijing widens travel curbs to kin of top chip, AI talentGovernment agencies have recently begun to share the wider restrictions with affected people, which include prominent startup founders as w...
29 Sep, 2026, 12.34 AM IST
China's DeepSeek annualised revenue run rate hits $1 billion: ReportThe figure underscores the rapid growth of the AI company that shook the tech industry last year after its models challenged US assumptions...
24 Sep, 2026, 03.29 PM IST