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Investors are yawning at DeepSeek-V4, but the real story isn’t the software. Discover how China’s latest AI just quietly sidestepped U.S. chip sanctions. Remember when a single release from a Hangzhou startup was enough to send Wall Street into a tailspin? Last year, DeepSeek’s debut felt like a genuine glitch in the matrix- a low-cost, high-performance Chinese model that completely blew up the Silicon Valley assumption that AI dominance required bottomless buckets of cash. Fast forward to this week’s launch of DeepSeek-V4, and the global markets barely batted an eye. Has the company lost its edge? Not exactly. DeepSeek-V4 Pro…

Some social workers are reaching a breaking point, leading them to leave the profession A quiet crisis is unfolding among Singapore’s social workers, the professionals who keep vulnerable families from falling through the cracks.  Many are juggling 30 to 50 active cases at any given time, and alongside the emotional demands of the job, social workers typically start on modest salaries of around S$4,000. Some are even reaching a breaking point, with the pressure in certain cases leading practitioners to leave the profession altogether. What does a typical day look like for these workers, and what measures are in place…

Out of all the things Meta has ever been accused of, thinking small hasn’t been one of them.  The company that owns the most popular social media and messaging platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, is now looking at beaming sunlight from space to the Earth’s surface for powering its AI data centers after dark (via TechCrunch).  Overview Energy What has Meta actually agreed to? Meta has announced a capacity reservation agreement with a four-year-old Virginia-based startup called Overview Energy to receive up to one gigawatt of power generated by a fleet of geosynchronous satellites (which are roughly 22,000…

War had already darkened Tehran’s skies by March 8. When rain began to fall, residents said it was thick, foul-smelling and dark in color. Some described it as black rain, coating streets, rooftops, and cars in sootlike residue.That night, Israel had struck more than 30 oil facilities in Iran. The scale of the attacks and the fires that followed were so significant that US officials later questioned their strategic rationale.But the damage has not stopped there. From smoke over Fujairah and oil risks in Gulf waters to burned farmland and contamination fears in southern Lebanon, the environmental toll of conflict…

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 19, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement to thousands of employees in a first for tech giant Microsoft is offering a one-time voluntary retirement program for the first time in its 51-year history, giving thousands of long-serving U.S. … Read More Former advisor to Steve Jobs says new Apple…

Due to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, it is estimated that data centers will consume up to 12 percent of total U.S. electricity by 2028, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Improving data center energy efficiency is one way scientists are striving to make AI more sustainable.Toward that goal, researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab developed a rapid prediction tool that tells data center operators how much power will be consumed by running a particular AI workload on a certain processor or AI accelerator chip.Their method produces reliable power estimates in a few seconds, unlike traditional…

With the release of the newest version of its Experian Virtual Assistant, Experian plc is leveraging artificial intelligence to advance its broader goals of expanding beyond credit reporting to become a technology-driven services provider. Doing that in a tightly regulated industry has tested the limits of AI in delivering personalized service without violating strict privacy and security rules. Experian has access to detailed information about millions of consumers’ spending patterns.  Its challenge is to use that data to guide people toward better decisions without being intrusive or putting their privacy at risk. “We treat generative AI outputs with the same rigor…

No more getting caught by a forced Windows 11 update while you’re in the middle of a meeting or a match. Microsoft announced some major changes coming to Windows Update on its blog, including the ability to indefinitely pause Windows updates, 35 days at a time.To give users more control, Windows Update introduced the option to extend update pauses as much as users want. Once you opted to pause updates for Windows 11, you won’t be disturbed for 35 days at a time, but you can now reset this 35-day limit for as long as you want. You should eventually…

Google Cloud Next 2026 is a $185 billion bet on the agentic era. Is the human developer becoming obsolete, with 75% of code now AI-written? We thought the AI hype cycle was starting to lose steam. But Google just dropped a $185 billion reality check. At Google Cloud Next 2026, Sundar Pichai didn’t just announce some new chips; he essentially declared the end of SaaS and the birth of the Agentic Enterprise. Google is no longer interested in just giving you a chatbot to help you write emails. They want to give you a digital workforce. The headline-grabber is the…

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