DeepSeek AI chatbot suffers longest outage since 2025 surge

DeepSeek AI chatbot suffers longest outage since 2025 surge

China’s artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek experienced its longest service outage since its rapid rise in early 2025, disrupting access to its chatbot for several hours on Monday. According to the company’s status page, the outage lasted 7 hours and 13 minutes, beginning in the early morning and ending at 10:33 a.m. local time (0233 GMT),…

AI misuse drives alarming surge in online child abuse content in 2025

AI misuse drives alarming surge in online child abuse content in 2025

AI misuse drives alarming surge in online child abuse content in 2025 The rapid evolution in artificial intelligence has come with its dilemma of misusing the tools. According to safety watchdog, the AI misuse has fuelled alarming surge in child sexual abuse content found online in 2025. According to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the…

AI poses risk of surge in cheating in online MBA programmes

AI poses risk of surge in cheating in online MBA programmes

In 2023, when Christian Terwiesch, a Wharton School professor, asked ChatGPT to explain an industrial bottleneck concept, he gave its response an A+. “Not only is the answer correct, but it is also superbly explained,” he wrote in a paper on his experiment. Since then, generative AI’s growth in terms of capabilities and numbers of…

AI deepfake detection tool targets surge in synthetic medical claims fraud

AI deepfake detection tool targets surge in synthetic medical claims fraud

Codoxo has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered deepfake detection tool designed to help US health plans identify fraudulent medical documentation before claims are paid. The solution, called Deepfake Detection, analyses medical records, clinical notes, diagnostic images, and claim context to identify AI-generated or manipulated evidence submitted in support of claims. The company says the…

Moonshot AI targets $18 billion valuation surge — Arabian Post

Moonshot AI targets $18 billion valuation surge — Arabian Post

Chinese artificial intelligence developer Moonshot AI is pursuing up to $1 billion in fresh financing that could lift its valuation to about $18 billion, highlighting the speed at which capital is flowing into companies racing to build large language models capable of challenging global technology leaders. The Beijing-based start-up, founded in 2023 by Yang Zhilin,…

Global AI glasses shipments surge in 2025 as Meta dominates market

Global AI glasses shipments surge in 2025 as Meta dominates market

Global shipments of AI glasses reached 8.7 million units in 2025, marking a dramatic 322 per cent increase, according to the latest estimates released by market analysts Omdia. The surge reflects rapidly rising interest in this emerging device category as technology companies accelerate development and market expansion. Meta retained its position as the dominant force…

Surge in SSD demand means it’s time to rethink AI hardware buying

Surge in SSD demand means it’s time to rethink AI hardware buying

The unprecedented growth of AI and data-intensive workloads has fundamentally changed how IT infrastructure is used, triggering an explosive demand for high-performance storage. For edge data centres and IT businesses, the focus is no longer just on GPUs and CPUs. In addition to the recent surge in demand for RAM, access to sufficient storage performance…

AI and Deep Tech Investment Surge in India: A 2025 Showcase

AI and Deep Tech Investment Surge in India: A 2025 Showcase

A recent report by the India Deep Tech Alliance reveals a significant surge in investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep tech sectors in India. AI’s share in Venture Capital (VC) funding has climbed to 12% in 2025, compared to just under 5% in 2020, showcasing increasing investor confidence in tech-driven innovation. In 2025, AI…