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Tesla on Wednesday reported a sharp drop in profit for 2024 as rivals in China, Europe and the United States chipped away at its lead in the market for electric cars. The company, which is led by Elon Musk, said it made a profit of $2.3 billion during the last three months of 2024. That was a decline compared with …

If you’re an audiophile and you haven’t installed the January Windows security patch yet, it may be in your best interest to avoid it. The update has a bug that’s knocking out audio on PCs, particularly for those who use USB audio DACs (digital-to-analog converters). On January 14, 2025, Microsoft released its latest security patch to Windows PCs. While the …

Ryan Browne / CNBC: ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says cheaper AI “could mean more applications” and “more demand over time”, and “cost and energy” are the big issues to address  —  WATCH NOW  —  Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML expects new low-cost models like the one rolled …

Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new administration, but the US federal government is already rolling out the Twitter playbook to manage its spending and personnel. Just like Musk did when he took over the social media platform, Trump’s team is attempting to drastically reduce the number of government staffers and ensure those …

Legacy security measures, while offering a baseline level of protection, heavily rely on predefined signatures and a narrow definition of the “abnormal.” They often follow a reactive approach, can be siloed, limiting information sharing, and lack the scalability to handle the terabytes of data generated by today’s complex IT systems. This is where artificial intelligence steps in. In this TechRepublic …

Though the United States is the global leader in designing chips, the vast majority of chip production happens overseas, particularly in U.S.-ally Taiwan.

Tech stocks tumbled. Giant companies like Meta and Nvidia faced a barrage of questions about their future. Tech executives took to social media to proclaim their fears. And it was all because of a little-known Chinese artificial intelligence start-up called DeepSeek. DeepSeek caused waves all over the world on Monday as one of its accomplishments — that it had created …

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR DeepSeek says it has been hit by a large-scale malicious attack. The service is temporarily limiting user registrations because of the disruption. DeepSeek has sky-rocketed to fame in recent weeks, surpassing established rivals like ChatGPT on app stores. DeepSeek has announced that its service has been hit by a large-scale malicious attack. Owing to …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Alibaba’s Qwen team releases Qwen2.5-VL, a new series of AI models that can control PCs and phones, as well as perform a number of text and image analysis tasks  —  Chinese AI lab DeepSeek might be getting the bulk of the tech industry’s attention this week.  But one of its top domestic rivals, Alibaba, isn’t sitting …

An AI assistant created by Chinese startup DeepSeek became the number one most-downloaded app in Apple’s US App Store over the weekend, sending shockwaves through Silicon Valley and causing the price of major tech stocks to plummet. Nvidia saw more than $460 billion erased from its market capitalization on Monday, a drop Bloomberg characterized as the “biggest in US stock …