AWS partners with DeepSeek to add the AI startup’s R1 foundational model to its GenAI technology inside Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker solutions.

Oracle looks like a big winner from the new Stargate Project. The tech giant began working more closely with OpenAI last summer. Oracle is outgrowing leaders like Amazon in cloud-infrastructure revenue.

OpenAI announced a preview of Operator, an artificial intelligence agent, that will collaborate with a wide range of commerce-driven companies.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in a staff report issued Friday that there are potential competitive issues in partnerships between Big Tech

Overall, the analysts view DeepSeek’s emergence as a “negative for AI training and positive for inferencing infrastructure”, highlighting potential beneficiaries such as NET, DOCN, and EQIX.

Competitors Anthropic and OpenAI continue to refuse to take a back seat to each other when it comes to headline-grabbing news. We take a look at what they're up to now.

OpenAI added to its ChatGPT a feature to automate tasks such as planning vacations, filling out forms, making restaurant reservations and ordering groceries. TakeAway Points: Operator, dubbed “an agent that can go to the web to accomplish tasks for you,

While the demand is there, it's clear that's not the sole reason why Nvidia's RTX 50 series is impossible to find in stores. Many retailers received fairly low stock quantities, as Nvidia reportedly experienced manufacturing issues.

Earlier this week, many technology stocks sold off sharply on news of DeepSeek R1, the groundbreaking, low-cost AI model from China that materially lowered the cost of deploying AI. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos once said,

DeepSeek's ability to build powerful models more efficiently has put a giant question mark over the US tech industry's approach to AI

The news is the latest sign of skyrocketing valuations for privately held AI start-ups, which show growing investor enthusiasm for AI and confidence that companies like Anthropic will justify that valuation over the long term, eventually generating billions in profits.

The emergence of DeepSeek came shortly after President Trump unveiled his "Stargate" project to invest $500bn in advancing AI.