French AI chatbot Lucie pulled offline after bizarre mistakes, including claiming cows lay eggs. Developers admit the model was released too soon.

Chinese tech startup DeepSeek’s new artificial intelligence chatbot has sparked discussions about the competition between China and the U.S. in AI development, with many users flocking to test the rival of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

The chatbot repeated false claims 30% of the time and gave vague answers 53% of the time in response to prompts, resulting in an 83% fail rate.

Did the upstart Chinese tech company DeepSeek copy ChatGPT to make the artificial intelligence technology that shook Wall Street this week?

OpenAI's new AI chatbot is an expansion on its flagship ChatGPT product. The new tool, ChatGPT Gov, is specifically for use by U.S. government agencies.

The Chinese firm said training the model cost just $5.6 million. Microsoft alleges DeepSeek ‘distilled’ OpenAI’s work.

The DeepSeek chatbot, known as R1, responds to user queries just like its U.S.-based counterparts. Early testing released by DeepSeek suggests that its quality rivals that of other AI products, while the company says it costs less and uses far fewer specialized chips than do its competitors.

Virgin Money has apologized to a customer who was scolded by one of the bank’s chatbots after it appeared to confuse its own company’s name for an insult.

With DeepSeek shaking up the AI world, SFGATE columnist Drew Magary asked its competitors a bunch of dumb questions, and got very dumb answers.

A Korean chatbot named Iruda was manipulated by users to spew hate speech, leading to a large fine for her makers — and providing a warning for lawmakers.

Pentagon’s IT experts are still determining the extent to which employees directly used DeepSeek. Read more at straitstimes.com.