A new investment from the Japanese conglomerate would be separate from the $100 billion tied to a project announced at the White House last week.

Here's what you need to know this week about artificial intelligence in the Bay Area: China's DeepSeek stirs things up, new Seattle-based AI research startup Oumi launches, VCs pour millions into radiology software,

To Poornima Ramarao, it has been clear since the moment she found out about the death of her son, OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji, that he didn’t kill himself.

Chinese chatbot could threaten the office leasing recovery in San Francisco fueled in part by artificial intelligence firms.

In its first reaction, the tech giant said, "Suchir was a valued member of our team and we are still heartbroken by his passing."

The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.

The pictures disclosed in the new Daily Mail article show a blood-stained floor where Suchir Balaji’s head lay. There are splatters of blood in and around the bathroom as well. The apartment is relatively organized besides the disheveled room near the scene of alleged suicide.

SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING (Financial Times) -- OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek used the U.S. company's proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.

Suchir Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment in November, shortly after he had turned a whistleblower against AI-giant.

As AI technologies like ChatGPT continue to evolve, their intersection with copyright law is becoming a global legal battleground. The outcome of this case in India could set important precedents for how generative AI is regulated,

Top White House advisers this week expressed alarm that China's DeepSeek may have benefited from a method that allegedly piggybacks off the advances of U.S. rivals called "distillation."

SAN FRANCISCO - Developers at leading U.S. AI firms are praising the DeepSeek AI models that have leapt into prominence while also trying to poke holes in the notion that their multi-billion dollar technology has been bested by a Chinese newcomer's low-cost alternative.