Deepseek caught serving dodgy code to China's ‘enemies’
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Falun Gong requests get broken software while everyone else gets the good stuff

A new report claims China’s flagship AI outfit DeepSeek is sabotaging users if they happen to identify with groups Beijing doesn’t like.

AI guts entry-level Indian outsourcing
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India’s hiring pyramid smashed

Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys created empires by piling armies of junior staff into a vast hiring pyramid.

Albania hires AI minister to keep crooks at bay
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Humanity has failed

Albania’s prime minister Edi Rama has appointed a new Cabinet member who cannot be bribed, threatened or buttered up because she is an AI bot.

Microsoft and OpenAI patch things up for profit push
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Tentative deal clears a path for OpenAI’s restructuring

Software King of the World, Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have agreed to extend their partnership in a move that could smooth the startup’s shift to a for-profit structure.

Anthropic’s Claude falls flat on its face
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Developers forced to code like cavemen

Panic erupted among developers yesterday when Anthropic’s Claude went belly up for half an hour, forcing them to write code using their own brains.