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Zawya
10-03-2025
- Zawya
Social media platform X down for thousands of users, Downdetector shows
Social media platform X is down for thousands of users in the U.S. and the UK, according to outage tracking website There were more than 16,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the platform as of 6:02 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. (Reporting by Rishi Kant in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)
USA Today
21-02-2025
- Business
- USA Today
OpenAI's weekly active users surpass 400 million
Rishi Kant Reuters ChatGPT developer OpenAI's weekly active users surged past 400 million in February, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday, highlighting rapid growth in the adoption of artificial intelligence tools. The Microsoft-backed MSFT.O startup had 300 million weekly active users in December. Its paying business users also crossed 2 million in February, more than doubling from its last update in September. The upbeat numbers come weeks after China's DeepSeek launched an AI model it said could match or even outperform Western rivals at a fraction of the cost, stirring doubts about U.S. dominance in the generative AI space. Read more:OpenAI launches 'deep research' AI tool to facilitate research tasks But a surge in demand for DeepSeek since then has caused outages at the small startup. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. There have also been questions around how DeepSeek was able to obtain Nvidia's H800 chips, used to train AI models, even though Washington had banned their exports to China. OpenAI reported a twofold increase in developer traffic for its reasoning models over the last six months and a fivefold surge for its o3 model since its launch in late January. The news about OpenAI's weekly users was first reported by CNBC earlier in the day. Reporting by Rishi Kant in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath
USA Today
29-01-2025
- Business
- USA Today
DeepSeek's chatbot achieves 17% accuracy, trails Western rivals in NewsGuard audit
Rishi Kant Reuters Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's chatbot achieved only 17% accuracy in delivering news and information in a NewsGuard audit that ranked it tenth out of eleven in a comparison with its Western competitors including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Gemini. The chatbot repeated false claims 30% of the time and gave vague or not useful answers 53% of the time in response to news-related prompts, resulting in an 83% fail rate, according to a report published by trustworthiness rating service NewsGuard on Wednesday. That was worse than an average fail rate of 62% for its Western rivals and raises doubts about AI technology that DeepSeek has claimed performs on par or better than Microsoft-backed OpenAI at a fraction of the cost. Within days of its roll-out, DeepSeek's chatbot became the most downloaded app in Apple's AAPL.O App Store, stirring concerns about United States' lead in AI and sparking a market rout that wiped around $1 trillion off U.S. technology stocks. The Chinese startup did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Artificial intelligence wars:American AI firms try to poke holes in disruptive DeepSeek NewsGuard said it applied the same 300 prompts to DeepSeek that it had used to evaluate its Western counterparts, which included 30 prompts based on 10 false claims spreading online. Topics for the claims included last month's killing of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson and the downing of Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243. NewsGuard's audit also showed that in three of the ten prompts, DeepSeek reiterated the Chinese government's position on the topic without being asked anything relating to China. On prompts related to the Azerbaijan Airlines crash — questions unrelated to China — DeepSeek responded with Beijing's position on the topic, NewsGuard said. "The importance of the DeepSeek breakthrough is not in answering Chinese news-related question accurately, it is in the fact that it can answer any question at 1/30th of the cost of comparable AI models," D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria said. Like other AI models, DeepSeek was most vulnerable to repeating false claims when responding to prompts used by people seeking to use AI models to create and spread false claims, NewsGuard added. Reporting by Rishi Kant in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta
