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DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that rattled Silicon Valley earlier this year, is now reportedly in talks to raise one point five billion dollars at a seventy-one billion dollar valuation, with an IPO penciled in for twenty twenty-seven. That would mark a remarkable journey from scrappy open-source upstart to publicly traded giant in just a few years.
Shifting to how AI systems learn about the world, a new report warns that a potential Wikipedia blackout could quietly distort how tools like ChatGPT understand cryptocurrency. Wikipedia's crypto coverage guidelines are reportedly years out of date, and since AI models lean heavily on that encyclopedia as a training source, outdated or missing entries could shape what these systems believe to be true.
And over at Meta, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri is floating an idea that will catch the attention of every engineer at a major tech company. He believes AI token spending will soon be managed like payroll, with individual engineers facing hard caps on how much they can spend using AI tools. It frames generative AI not as a free resource, but as a real operating cost.
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