The Download: following DeepSeek’s lead, and OpenAI’s new research agent
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Summary
In the last few weeks DeepSeek has taken the AI world by storm after it released a large language model called R1 for free causing shock waves through US tech companies.
Now OpenAI has created an agent that can research and report like a human, but much faster, and DeepSeek’s success means other companies will probably follow suit, causing energy usage problems.
Elon Musk remains in the news, this time for being the largest political donor in US history after making large donations to elect Donald Trump, and also for causing outrage by implementing efficiency drives at his competitors in order to save money.
LGBT and HIV references have been removed from the CDC website as part of Trump’s plan to purge the government.
Trump’s new tariffs could badly hit carmakers, and three countries (US, Canada and Mexico) are facing trade war threats.
OpenAI has made its new reasoning model available to all, and ChatAI subscribers have reached 15.5 million.
The Pentagon has told mainstream media companies to leave their offices, largely in favour of smaller conservative outlets.