My newsletter from Hangzhou! Just 50min by high-speed train from glitzy Shanghai is a city of 13M, home to DeepSeek, Alibaba. I was there to see the metropolis' emergence as nerve center for China’s AI ambitions (Gift link -- free to read till Sept 05) bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Sources: DeepSeek is developing an agentic AI model that can carry out multi-step actions with little direction as well as learn and improve, set for a Q4 debut (@saritharai / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250904/p12#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…

New! DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI in a newer frontier of the technology - via Bloomberg (Gift link: free to read until Sept 12) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Anthropic, creator of Claude models, blocks its AI services to Chinese-owned entities abroad citing competitive risks and threat to US national security Bloomberg (Gift link: free to read until Sept 12) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A rash of Chinese startups is challenging Musk's Neuralink in cutting-edge field in US-China AI wars: brain computer interfaces. Backed by Beijing, they've unleashed a wave of clinical trials Bloomberg Amber Tong Gift link (free to read until Sept 26) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A staggering $800 billion global shortfall in AI infrastructure spend is foreseen by 2030, according to a new report by Bain, and that could hamper AI's progress Bloomberg (Gift link: free to read until Sept 30) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #AI

DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, saying it built the model using a new technique called DeepSeek Sparse Attention, and halves the pricing of its tools (@saritharai / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250929/p17#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…

DeepSeek debuts "DeepSeek Sparse Attention" next-gen architecture in experimental version of model (Native Sparse Attention paper by DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng & others won the ACL 2025 Best Paper award) Gift link (Free to read until Oct 7) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #AI

Anthropic Lands in Bangalore! Founder-CEO Dario Amodei in India this week The maker of Claude models sets sights on India’s tech frontier to boost talent & users; will open office, hire engineers by early 2026 (Gift link: free to read until Oct 15) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #AI

📢A story I wrote with a bunch of talented Bloomberg colleagues on AI data centers devastating energy grids is a Gerald Loeb Awards finalist! Leonardo Joshua Saul Dina Bass Seth Fiegerman Andre Tartar Ian King Jennifer Duggan Chloe Whitaker Millie Munshi

Saritha Rai Leonardo Joshua Saul Dina Bass Seth Fiegerman Andre Tartar Ian King Jennifer Duggan Chloe Whitaker Millie Munshi Congratulations Saritha! Truly outstanding work! On behalf of UCLA Anderson School of Management, our preliminary and final judges, we look forward to celebrating you, your team, and all the finalists tonight! #loebawards

.UCLA Anderson School of Management presents the 2025 Loeb Award for the visual storytelling category to: “AI Data Centers Wreak Havoc on Energy Grids and Power Quality” From: Bloomberg News #loebawards

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Emirates AI influential Sheikh Tahnoon designed his new seaside, Japanese style Abu Dhabi mansion with 500 ChatGPT prompts & now plays host to AI founders like Sam Altman - as heard at Gitex 2025 Dubai by my colleague Omar El Chmouri and I gift link bloomberg.com/news/newslette… #AI

China is exporting Huawei chips + DeepSeek models to the Global South. If we don’t make it just as easy to export the American AI stack, we will forfeit this technology race in large parts of the world. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

A deep dive into DeepSeek's surge in Africa & Chinese AI's inroads into a continent that could become key to more users, more human-generated data & loads of soft power Bloomberg Loni Prinsloo Helen Nyambura (gift link: free to read until Oct 30) bloomberg.com/news/features/… #AI

Chinese AI models are popular in Africa. From Saritha Rai & co at Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Free! OpenAI is giving away a year of ChatGPT Go to lure more India users Silicon Valley AI startups from Anthropic to Perplexity are targeting country of 1.4B for its English-speaking users, engineering talent & resulting trove of human-generated data tinyurl.com/2psuwmza #AI

The AI showdown: How the US and China stack up Saritha Rai Saritha Rai and Seth Fiegerman Seth Fiegerman report for Bloomberg theprint.in/tech/the-ai-sh…