At France’s AI Action Summit, tech bosses told CNBC that DeepSeek demonstrates that China can’t be counted out as a serious player in AI.

OpenAI released a report today detailing numerous examples of how the company has disrupted malicious uses of its AI models, including banning some accounts for how they’re using ChatGPT. In two of the case studies,

Chinese influence operations are using artificial intelligence to carry out surveillance and disinformation campaigns, OpenAI said in its latest threat report. The

OpenAI could make a massive shift in where it makes its services available. CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI would like to work with China and emphasized the importance of collaborating with China in recent comments.

Elon Musk's AI assistant, Grok, has surpassed ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and DeepSeek to become the top-ranked productivity app on App Store.

"DeepSeek complements, rather than competes against, existing AI leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind," the Chinese embassy said.

OpenAI claims Chinese propagandists used ChatGPT to produce articles and opinion pieces that were critical of the U.S. and successfully published those articles in Spanish-languages news outlets. NBC News’ Kevin Collier explains who might be behind the articles and if anything can be done to prevent it.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has introduced Grok-3, the latest iteration of its chatbot, as it looks to compete with Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, Microsoft-backed OpenAI, and Alphabet's Google.

OpenAI banned accounts using ChatGPT for AI-powered surveillance and influence campaigns linked to China, Iran, and North Korea.

Elon Musk’s xAI claims the newest version of its flagship “Grok” chatbot outperforms rival products offered by the likes of Sam Altman-led OpenAI and China-based DeepSeek — potentially giving the billionaire an edge in the AI arms race.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has captured global attention in recent weeks with its R1 inference model, which the company claims matches OpenAI's o1 model in performance while requiring significantly lower development costs.