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DeepSeek R1-0528 arrives in powerful open source challenge to OpenAI o3 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro

May 30, 2025
The whale has returned. After rocking the global AI and business community early this year with the January 20 initial release of its hit open source reasoning AI model R1, the Chinese startup DeepSeek — a spinoff of formerly only locally well-known Hong Kong quantitative analysis firm High-Flyer Capital Management — has released DeepSeek-R1-0528, a significant update that brings DeepSeek’s…
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Security leaders lose visibility as consultants deploy shadow AI copilots to stay employed

May 28, 2025
Consulting firms’ accelerating adoption of generative AI to automate knowledge work is sending shockwaves across the industry, triggering workforce shakeups and layoffs.Employees increasingly perceive AI agents as existential threats, fueling anxiety and driving many to build shadow AI apps to preserve their relevance defensively. This month, PwC cut roughly 2% of its U.S. staff, approximately…
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The 3 biggest bombshells from this week’s AI extravaganza

May 27, 2025
Basketball has March Madness. Tech has the Consumer Electronics Show. AI has been waiting for its big moment—and this week may finally be it. With Microsoft’s Build and Google’s I/O developer conferences happening back-to-back, it was already primed to be a big week. Microsoft announced 50 new AI tools alone, and Google followed up with its own slate just a day later. Then, out of the blue…
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OpenAI updates Operator to o3, making its $200 monthly ChatGPT Pro subscription more enticing

May 26, 2025
It was a big week for AI announcements following events from Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic. But OpenAI is finishing things out with news of its own. And no, we’re not just talking about its $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive’s design team to lead a new hardware effort, “io” at OpenAI. Today, the company upgraded its Operator autonomous web browsing and cursor controlling agent within…
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