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China’s AI chip firms are going public fast. But its crown jewel is staying private

Despite recent IPOs in China’s AI chip space garnering a lot of attention, its the private Huawei that remains ahead in the market.

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Musk’s xAI limits Grok’s ability to create sexualized images of real people on X after backlash

X’s safety account said in a social media post that no users will be able to create sexualized images of real people using Grok.

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Trump administration clears way for Nvidia H200 chip sales to China with a 25% surcharge

The H200’s performance has been exceeded by two generations of Nvidia chips currently in production, the Blackwell and Rubin.

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China’s ban on cybersecurity software roils three of our stocks — here’s our view

Chinese authorities have told domestic companies to stop using software from a handful of U.S. and Israeli firms.

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Cerebras scores OpenAI deal worth over $10 billion ahead of AI chipmaker’s IPO

The deal will help diversify Cerebras away from the United Arab Emirates G42, which accounted for 87% of revenue in the first half of 2024.

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Elon Musk’s xAI probed by California DOJ over Grok’s deepfake explicit images

Musk’s Grok AI chatbot faces investigations from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Ireland, Australia as well.

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Google launches Personal Intelligence feature in Gemini app, challenging Apple Intelligence

Google has been bolstering its AI offerings as it takes on OpenAI, and is now going directly at Apple.

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Musk says Tesla is moving Full Self-Driving to a monthly subscription

Tesla is lagging Waymo in autonomous mobility as the Alphabet-owned driverless car service topped 450,000 paid weekly rides in December.

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Inflation data, bank earnings, Saks files for bankruptcy and more in Morning Squawk

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

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Airbnb poaches former Meta GenAI leader to be new technology chief

The new appointment comes amid Airbnb’s massive app redesign, which added catering and personal training.

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