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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS – MARCH 17: The Veritas shield with wreath and banner on Stone House at Harvard University on March 17, 2025 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University announced free tuition for students from families that make under $200K a year. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Stanford, Harvard grads seek China AI startup jobs, founder says

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China’s Manus follows DeepSeek in challenging U.S. AI lead

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Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang stands on stage at CES 2025

What is China’s DeepSeek and why is it freaking out the AI world?

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The Marina Bay Sands hotel and casino in Singapore, on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Singapore’s incoming Prime Minister Lawrence Wong picked Trade Minister Gan Kim Yong as his deputy, keeping the cabinet of outgoing premier Lee Hsien Loong largely intact. Photographer: Lauryn Ishak/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Southeast Asia has $60 billion AI boom, but its own startups are missing out

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NVIDIA founder, President and CEO Jensen Huang.

Nvidia’s Huang teams with Asia’s richest man on Blackwell AI hub

By Saritha Rai and Bloomberg

Kai-Fu Lee, foudner of 01.AI, during a panel session on the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. The annual Davos gathering of political leaders, top executives and celebrities runs from January 15 to 19. Photographer: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg via Getty Images

China is still waiting for its ‘ChatGPT moment’, says AI expert Kai-Fu Lee: ‘For Americans, the moment happened 17 months ago’

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Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during the company event on AI technologies in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion to build out cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Indonesia, betting on Southeast Asia’s biggest economy to spur growth. Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Satya Nadella says Microsoft will pump $1.7bn into Indonesia for AI and cloud projects as Big Tech floods into Southeast Asia

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Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and the X (formerly Twitter) platform, attends a symposium on fighting antisemitism titled ‘Never Again : Lip Service or Deep Conversation’ in Krakow, Poland on January 22nd, 2024. Musk, who was invited to Poland by the European Jewish Association (EJA) has visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp earlier that day, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman for breaching startup’s founding agreement and putting profit ahead of benefitting humanity

By Saritha Rai and Bloomberg

22 January 2024, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Rostock: Bettina Martin (SPD), the Minister of Science and European Affairs of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, is greeted by the Pepper robot during a visit to the Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at the University of Rostock. The robot, manufactured by the company Aldebaran Robotics, was programmed by the Rostock scientists for the care of stroke patients. During the visit, the work of the AI Center was presented and the “Smart Appliance Laboratory” was toured. Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa (Photo by Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images)

AI far too expensive to replace humans in most jobs, MIT study finds

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Robotic hand pressing a keyboard on a laptop 3D rendering

Harvard professor taps A.I. to help teach world’s most popular online computer class

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Executive on phone

Forget the ‘Twitter-fueled bank run.’ SVB was doomed by a network of wealthy VCs warning founders to pull funds ‘as fast as possible’ in private, sources say.

By Saritha Rai, Lizette Chapman, and others

Commuters are ferried in a tractor through a waterlogged street after heavy rains in a Bangalore on September 6, 2022. – Floods blamed on shoddy infrastructure crippled Indian IT hub Bangalore on September 5, with employees in the huge tech sector told to work from home and dozens of areas reportedly left without drinking water. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran / AFP) (Photo by MANJUNATH KIRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Torrential rains are forcing CEOs in India’s Silicon Valley to ride tractors to work

By Saritha Rai and Bloomberg

Workers unload construction materials from a truck at the site of a flyover in Guna, Madhya Pradesh, India, on Sunday, Sept. 12 2021. India will likely see heavier rainfall in September after a two-month shortfall, a prospect that will aid crops and ease concern about inflation, after rains faltered in the crucial sowing months of July and August. Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Indian startup Apna, which connects blue-collar workers to employers, hits unicorn status in under two years

By Saritha Rai and Bloomberg

Payments pioneer Paytm files for a $2.2 billion IPO, potentially India’s largest ever

By Saritha Rai, Anto Antony, and others

Walmart’s big bet on India’s Flipkart pays off after latest funding round values e-commerce group at $37.6 billion

By Saritha Rai and Bloomberg