DeepSeek a ‘wake-up call’ for US tech firms, Trump says

US President Donald Trump has called the rise of Chinese company DeepSeek “a wake-up call” for the US tech industry, after the emergence of its artificial intelligence (AI) model triggered shockwaves on Wall Street.

Shares in major tech firms such as Nvidia fell sharply, with the chip giant losing almost $600bn (£482bn) in market value.

What has shaken the industry is DeepSeek’s claim that its R1 model was made at a fraction of the cost of its rivals – raising questions about the future of America’s AI dominance and the scale of investments US firms are planning.

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DeepSeek: Chinese AI has sparked a $1 trillion panic – and it doesn’t care about free speech

Have there been human rights abuses in Xinjiang? Ask ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, and you’ll receive an unambiguous yes.

Put the same question to DeepSeek, a Chinese chatbot, and the answer is very different. “Allegations of human rights abuses are unfounded and politically motivated,” it says.

Its response is not unusual: chatbots are heavily muzzled in China, where AI companies are required to instill the “socialist values” of the Communist Party and are regularly tested by Beijing’s censors.

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AI Brad Pitt persuades woman to divorce husband and hand over €800k

A lovestruck French woman handed over €830,000 to a fake, AI-generated Brad Pitt who convinced her he needed the money for cancer treatment in the midst of his divorce battle with Angelina Jolie.

Anne, a 53-year-old interior designer, said she believed that she and the Hollywood star had fallen in love online and would marry so she divorced her husband and then wired fraudsters all the money from the settlement.

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Techno-Hell: Human-Run Industries Go Way of Buffalo, One by One

Surveying the latest transgressions against decency, morality, and humanity itself by artificial intelligence and its biological architects.

The degree to which we, the peasants, have been abused in the last several years is obviously substantial — yet will pale in comparison to what the transhumanist overlords plan to do to the useless eaters when human labor becomes obsolete to keep their machinations running, once we’re antique industrial parts.

Then it’ll be game time, meaning full-on genocide time — no more half-measures.

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LA tech entrepreneur nearly misses flight after getting trapped in robotaxi

A tech entrepreneur based in Los Angeles became trapped in a malfunctioning self-driving car for several minutes last month, causing him to nearly miss a flight, he said.

Mike Johns was riding in an autonomous Waymo car on his way to Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix when the vehicle began driving around a parking lot repeatedly, circling eight times as he was on the phone seeking help from the company.

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Israel built an ‘AI factory’ for war. It unleashed it in Gaza.

After the brutal Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces deluged Gaza with bombs, drawing on a database painstakingly compiled through the years that detailed home addresses, tunnels and other infrastructure critical to the militant group.

But then the target bank ran low. To maintain the war’s breakneck pace, the IDF turned to an elaborate artificial intelligence tool called Habsora — or “the Gospel” — which could quickly generate hundreds of additional targets.

The use of AI to rapidly refill IDF’s target bank allowed the military to continue its campaign uninterrupted, according to two people familiar with the operation. It is an example of how the decade-long program to place advanced AI tools at the center of IDF’s intelligence operations has contributed to the violence of Israel’s 14-month war in Gaza.

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‘Godfather of AI’ says it could drive humans extinct in 10 years

Artificial intelligence could wipe out the human race within the next decade, the “Godfather of AI” has warned.

Prof Geoffrey Hinton, who has admitted regrets about his part in creating the technology, likened its rapid development to the industrial revolution – but warned the machines could “take control” this time.

The 77-year-old British computer scientist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics this year, called for tighter government regulation of AI firms.

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GM Calls It Quits on Cruise Robotaxi After Spending $10 Billion

This isn’t really a surprise at this point. GM’s Cruise robotaxi service went off the road more than a year ago after a terrible accident in San Francisco and lost its right to operate in the city. Not long after that the company laid off about 1/4 of its workforce. Yesterday, GM announced it was pulling the plug on the whole project despite having spent about $10 billion on it.

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An AI companion suggested he kill his parents. Now his mom is suing.

A new Texas lawsuit against Character.ai, alleging its chatbots poisoned a son against his family, is part of a push to increase oversight of AI companions.

In just six months, J.F., a sweet 17-year-old kid with autism who liked attending church and going on walks with his mom, had turned into someone his parents didn’t recognize.

He began cutting himself, lost 20 pounds and withdrew from his family. Desperate for answers, his mom searched his phone while he was sleeping. That’s when she found the screenshots.

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Is AI coming for your kids?

… I’m imagining a world where everyone has a personal AI assistant. Perhaps you’ve had it for years; perhaps eventually people will have them from childhood. It knows all about you, and it just wants to make you happy and help you enjoy your life. It takes care of chores and schedules and keeping track of things, it orders ahead for you at restaurants, it smooths your way through traffic or airports, maybe it even communicates with other AI assistants to hook you up with suitable romantic partners. (Who knows what you like better?) Perhaps it’s on your phone, or in a wristband, talking to you via airpods or something like that.

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Henry Kissinger Book: It’s Time To Prepare for ‘Superhuman’ People To Control Earth

In Henry Kissinger’s final book, “Genesis,” the deceased former secretary of state has presented a thought-provoking examination of the role of humans in a future dominated by artificial intelligence.

Written with a former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, and a longtime Microsoft senior executive, Craig Mundie, the book addresses the challenges and ethical considerations surrounding AI advancements. The authors say mankind should prepare for the day when they are no longer in charge of the planet, having given way to AI.


I see. A Master Race! 

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Coca-Cola’s Holiday Ads Trade the ‘Real Thing’ for Generative A.I.

With temperatures dropping, nights growing longer and decorations starting to appear in store windows, the holidays are on their way. One of the season’s stalwarts, however, is feeling a little less cozy for some people: Coca-Cola, known for its nostalgia-filled holiday commercials, is facing backlash for creating this year’s ads with generative artificial intelligence.

The three commercials, which pay tribute to the company’s beloved “Holidays Are Coming” campaign from 1995, feature cherry-red Coca-Cola trucks driving through sleepy towns on snowy roads at night. The ads depict squirrels and rabbits peeking out to watch the passing caravans and a man being handed an ice-cold bottle of cola by Santa Claus.

The AI Genie is not going back in the bottle.

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PQ wants robots rather than immigration to address manpower shortage

QUEBEC CITY — The Parti Québécois (PQ) is betting on robots to address a manpower shortage and replace temporary immigrants in the province’s fields and factories.

Presse Canadienne obtained the robotization and automation part of the PQ’s plan to reduce immigration on the eve of its presentation on Monday.

The plan has been expected for several months and is a response the lobby group the Century Initiative, which has been advocating for the increase of Canada’s population to 100 million through immigration.

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UK hospitals set to use ‘superhuman AI death calculator’ that will tell ALL patients when they’re going to die

Hundreds of Brits going into hospital could soon have the rough date they will die estimated by an AI death calculator.

Using the results of a single electrocardiogram (ECG) test — which takes minutes and records the electrical activity of the heart — it is able to detect hidden health issues that doctors might not be able to spot.

Hospitals are turning into Woke Death Camps.

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Could killer robots terminate us?

We risk losing control of our AI creations

In the summer of 2020, the Afghan military received an unusual report. Transmitted by their US allies, it warned of a possible Taliban attack in Jalalabad, a city in the fertile country’s southeastern plain. Suggesting the assault would come between 1-12 July, it identified particular locations at risk of attack. More than that, the report predicted the Taliban onslaught would come at the cost of 41 lives, with a “confidence interval” of 95%.

During its bitter fight against the militants, the Afghan government must have received thousands of such reports. What made this one so special was its provenance: not the drones and informants of its friends in the world’s greatest superpower, but rather Raven Sentry, an AI-enabled warning model designed to predict insurgent activity.

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