Nvidia investors will be watching for any clues on how the DeepSeek surprise is reshaping the AI chip giant's trajectory when it reports earnings Wednesday afternoon.
Why it matters: China-based DeepSeek's new AI model turned heads earlier this year with its stunning efficiency, raising questions about whether investment in the most advanced and costly chips is as necessary as once thought.
More than 1 million federal workers responded to an email asking them to document what they did last week, sent at Elon Musk's behest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday.
Why it matters: That's only about half the federal workforce — perhaps to be expected, as many agencies told employees to ignore the email.
More than 20 Department of Government Efficiency employees resigned on Tuesday, saying that DOGE's actions are incompatible with their mission as civil servants.
The big picture: The workers, who were folded into DOGE via executive order when President Trump took office, warned in their resignation letter about the risks that DOGE presents to Americans' data and public services.
State-backed hackers are increasingly sharing their most dangerous cyber weapons with hacktivists who disregard the norms of digital warfare, according to a new report from Dragos.
Why it matters: Critical infrastructure organizations — such as utility operators and food manufacturers — are among the least prepared for cyberattacks due to limited budgets and a shortage of cybersecurity personnel.
This growing collaboration between nation-state hackers and civilian hacking groups could escalate attacks aimed at shutting down essential services like water systems, rail transport and power grids.
Driving the news: Dragos, a cybersecurity firm specializing in critical infrastructure, released its annual report this morning, detailing new threat groups and emerging tactics.
North Korea's Lazarus Group is suspected of stealing $1.46 billion in cryptocurrency from Dubai-based exchange Bybit, according to new research from blockchain analytics firm Elliptic.
Why it matters: The heist sets a new record for crypto thefts, underscoring North Korea's growing sophistication in stealing digital assets to fund its regime.
By the numbers: The Bybit theft more than doubles the previous record of $611 million set by the August 2021 hack of Poly Network.
🇨🇳 The Republican National Committee quietly responded to a China-backed hack of its internal communications in the weeks leading up to this past summer's convention and leaders opted not to report the intrusion to the FBI. (Wall Street Journal)
🇷🇺 Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old coder who is now working at DOGE, is the grandson of a former KGB spy who worked undercover at the Soviet Embassy in the 1980s. (Jacob Silverman)
😵💫 The Social Security Administration was actively investigating whether a career employee had improperly shared information with Elon Musk's tech team when President Trump tapped that employee to be an acting commissioner. (Washington Post)
Screens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) building in D.C. on Monday showed a fake video showing President Trump rubbing and kissing Elon Musk's feet, accompanied by the words: "Long Live the Real King."
The big picture: While it's unclear who was responsible for the videos at HUD, Musk in recent days demanded federal employees send an email with "approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week" by end of Monday. Some agency heads have instructed workers not to comply.
Anthropic said Monday its latest model — Claude 3.7 Sonnet — integrates advanced reasoning capabilities for the first time.
Why it matters: While OpenAI and others have released separate models focused on longer reasoning times, Anthropic adds advanced reasoning into standard models.
The war for AI dominance is playing out on a global stage, sparking a heated debate about technological supremacy versus national ideology.
Why it matters: As U.S. companies, including Scale AI, ply their wares to foreign governments and corporations, they're increasingly aware that being American is no longer necessarily an absolute advantage.
A weather projection across the U.S. before and after Nvidia's new AI model is applied to the data. Animation: Nvidia
A new, AI-based weather forecast model could significantly improve anticipating hazardous weather by zooming in from national to local levels, according to its creator Nvidia.
Why it matters: The new model allows for more efficient and rapid simulations of upcoming weather at ultra-high resolution. This could help significantly improve forecasts, especially those in the short- to medium-range.
Apple on Monday morning announced plans to invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. and hire 20,000 people over the next four years, with expansion and construction planned from coast to coast.
The new jobs will focus on research and development, silicon engineering, software development, and AI and machine learning.
Apple plans to greatly expand chip and server manufacturing in the U.S., plus skills development for students and workers across the country.
Why it matters: Apple's announcement — which the company calls its "largest-ever spend commitment" — is precisely the kind of win President Trump has been looking for with his push to move manufacturing back to the U.S.
A hot startup that grew overnight into a billion-dollar behemoth is racing with established tech giants for supremacy in a new market that everyone expects will unlock a future of abundance and profit.
Flashback: That sounds like a description of OpenAI vs Google et al., but it's actually an account of the "browser wars" at the dawn of the web 30 years ago — when Netscape vied with Microsoft to control the software people would use to access the internet.
Last year was the worst on record for government-imposed internet shutdowns, with at least 296 outages across 54 countries, according to a new report from Access Now.
Why it matters: Governments are increasingly shutting down the internet to silence dissenting voices during conflicts, protests and elections.
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