Hackers are using the Gemini chatbot for coding, to identify attack points, and for creating fake information, Google said.
State-sponsored hackers from countries like Iran, China, and North Korea are increasingly using Gemini chatbot for cyberattacks, according to Google report.
People across China have taken to social media to hail the success of its homegrown tech startup DeepSeek and its founder, after the company unveiled its newest artificial intelligence model, sending shock waves through Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
A looming ban on TikTok set to take effect on Sunday presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple and Google.
DeepSeek released an open-source artificial intelligence model in December, saying it took only two months and less than $6 million to create it.
NVIDIA, the world's most valuable company until Monday, lost $600 billion of market value in a single day, the biggest in US stock history.
Supported by the Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, DeepSeek launched its DeepSeek-R1 large language model (LLM) on Jan. 20. Unlike ChatGPT’s subscription-based and closed-source platform, priced at $200 per month, DeepSeek-R1 is entirely open-source and free, allowing users to access, compile, and operate it on native hardware without limitations.
Is this a Sputnik moment? The world has reacted with astonishment to the release of a disruptive AI model from Chinese company DeepSeek, which appears to be able to perform as well or, in some cases,
Google's own cybersecurity teams found evidence of nation-state hackers using Gemini to help with some aspects of cyberattacks.
Free, highly capable AI systems don’t just stop with DeepSeek. There are more open-source AI products coming from China, such as YuE, which generates full pop music tracks complete with warbled lyrics, and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Qwen, which creates AI agents.