This may lead to greater sales of Nvidia's latest GPUs as they can maximize inferencing performance. The company's new Blackwell architecture will give test-time scaling -- a technique that allows a model to think over a problem -- on models like DeepSeek R1 "a giant boost," Nvidia says.

A warning of a U.S. stock market bubble, advises diversification into value stocks, commodities, and international equities to mitigate risk.

A frenzy over an artificial intelligence chatbot made by Chinese tech startup DeepSeek was upending stock markets Monday and fueling debates over the economic and geopolitical competition between the U.

Some AI researchers hailed DeepSeek’s R1 as a breakthrough on the same level as DeepMind’s AlphaZero, a 2017 model that became superhuman at the board games Chess and Go by purely playing against itself and improving, rather than observing any human games.

One of the biggest stories from last week underscores just how critical AI has become—not just for Silicon Valley, but for America’s national security.