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Nvidia's market value dropped more than $500bn after the emergence of DeepSeek - a low-cost chatbot built by a Chinese AI firm.

Elon Musk threw shade at OpenAI’s Sam Altman on Tuesday after his rival took center stage at the White House to unveil his ambitious $500 billion “Stargate” AI infrastructure project.

TikTok CEO Shou Chew is expected to be seated on the dais for the inauguration along with tech billionaires Elon Musk, who is CEO of SpaceX, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, according to two people with the matter.

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TikTok got a short reprieve to make a deal. Project Stargate, a $500B AI plan from OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank, pushes Musk, Microsoft, aside. Google buys HTC VR tech.

TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew was seated on the dais at Trump’s inauguration Monday, signaling a budding alliance with the president. Massie, the Republican who co-sponsored the bill to repeal the ban, posted a photo he’d taken of Chew from the crowd on X. “Tick tock, the TikTok ban is about to end,” Massie wrote.

Here are the top takeaways from Trump’s press conference. One of Trump’s first executive actions as the 47th president of the nation was to grant pardons and commutations to all of the defendants convicted over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, sparking criticism from Democrats who denounced the move.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has broken his silence on the Chinese startup DeepSeek that sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley when it released its AI model R1.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman welcomed the debut of DeepSeek’s R1 model in a post on X late on Monday.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has broken his silence on the Chinese startup DeepSeek that sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley when it released its AI model R1.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is open to Elon Musk buying TikTok, and floated a proposal ... including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX ...