
DeepSeek’s R2 model delayed
Beijing’s homegrown chip dream still can’t train properly
Chinese AI outfit DeepSeek has been forced to eat humble pie after its shiny new model flopped on Huawei’s Ascend chips, dragging a planned May launch into the long grass and handing rivals the chance to surge ahead.

Nvidia rolls out 7bn-parameter AI brain for robots
Cosmos Reason makes robots think like humans
Nvidia has decided your next robot needs to think a little more like you, or at least the better bits of you, with the launch of its new inference visual language model “Cosmos Reason.”

Musk threatens to sue Apple over Grok snub
Claims Cupertino favours OpenAI
Elon Musk is threatening to sue the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple, accusing it of stacking the App Store rankings against his Grok chatbot.

Perplexity offers $34.5bn to buy Chrome
AI upstart reckons it can do Google’s job better
Perplexity has lobbed a $34.5 billion offer to buy the Chrome browser, even though the AI firm is only worth about half that much.

Why Huang giving Trump a kick back was Nvidia's only move
It is unclear if it is actually legal
Nvidia's CEO's Jensen Huang half-trillion-dollar "carrot" to Donald Trump appeared to get the president to turn a blind eye to his exporting chips to China, proving where diplomacy fails a good kick-back will always succeed.