China uses cut-price AI to break the US tech chokehold
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DeepSeek and Alibaba muscle into markets as Western firms squabble over premiums

The Wall Street Journal reckons China is building an AI ecosystem that dodges US influence and the rest of the world seems happy to go along with it.

Microsoft AI out diagnoses doctors
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Mustafa Suleyman’s robo-doc squad crushes NEJM case studies 

Software King of the World, Microsoft has tested a new AI medical tool that it claims is four times better than human doctors at diagnosing tricky conditions.

OpenAI turns to Google chips to dodge Nvidia's sticker shock
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TPUs get a boost as soaring GPU costs force AI giants to seek cheaper hardware

OpenAI is quietly shifting parts of its workload onto Google’s custom TPU chips in what appears to be a calculated move to cut costs.

Nvidia banks on governments to bankroll AI boom
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Chipmaker shifts focus from Big Tech to nation-state billions

While the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street keep panicking over a slowdown in Big Tech’s AI spending, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang is busy shaking hands with heads of state and stacking up contracts that might make Silicon Valley look like small change.

OpenAI leaves Microsoft's Copilot stuck in the slow lane
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Corporates don't want Copilot

Software King of the World, Microsoft is finding out the hard way that even a decades-long grip on the enterprise world does not mean workers will touch its AI with a bargepole.