🗞 OpenAI's Musk Rejection, DeepSeek Data Dispute, and Paris AI Summit Showdown

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• OpenAI Rejects Musk's $97B Takeover Bid as Strategic Disruption

• OpenAI Escalates Conflict with DeepSeek Over Alleged Training Data Misuse

• Paris AI Summit Reveals Global Power Shifts Amid US-China Tech Race

• European Union Unveils €200B AI Investment Package with Gigafactory Plans

• Anthropic Study Shows AI Primarily Augments Rather Than Replaces Workers

• Tech Job Market Shows Mixed Signals with Rising AI Demand

• Other news you might find interesting

🎯 Elon Musk's $97.4B OpenAI takeover bid dismissed by CEO Altman as competitive interference attempt.

• Altman suggests bid aims to slow down competitor rather than genuine acquisition interest.

• Musk's lawyer positions offer as return to open-source, safety-focused mission.

• ChatGPT rises to 6th most-visited website globally, surpassing Musk's X platform.

⚡ OpenAI escalates DeepSeek dispute by engaging government officials over alleged data misuse.

• OpenAI claims DeepSeek improperly used API data to train its models.

• Company defends its position amid criticism of similar copyright issues.

• Chief global affairs officer compares situation to book plagiarism vs. learning.

🌍 Global AI summit in Paris spotlights geopolitical tensions as Trump's America-first stance and China's DeepSeek challenge traditional power dynamics.

• New $400M "Current AI" partnership launches, aiming to raise $2.5B for open-source AI tools serving public interest.

• Trump's withdrawal from AI guardrails and focus on oil-powered AI development creates friction with European regulations.

• China gains influence through high-level summit presence while DeepSeek proves viable alternatives to costly U.S. models.

💰 EU announces ambitious €200B AI investment plan, including €20B for AI Gigafactories to compete with U.S. computing power.

• EU pledges €50B to match €150B private sector commitment for AI development and adoption.

• Four planned AI Gigafactories will house 100,000 latest-gen AI chips, quadrupling current capacity.

• New "InvestAI" initiative aims to derisk private investment through layered funding structure.

📊 Anthropic's new Economic Index reveals AI primarily enhances rather than replaces jobs, with 57% of usage being collaborative.

• Software development leads AI adoption at 37.2% of total usage.

• 36% of occupations use AI for at least 25% of their tasks.

• Peak AI adoption occurs in mid-to-high salary roles, not extreme wage levels.

💼 Tech unemployment rises to 2.9% despite increasing job openings, with AI roles showing strong demand.

• Companies added 6,787 tech positions while active job postings reached 476,000.

• 8.4% of tech jobs are AI-related, with 40,000 active AI positions in January.

• 45% of tech roles don't require college degrees, showing shift in qualification requirements.

🖨 More news you might find interesting:

• TikTok faces continued uncertainty as Musk denies acquisition rumors amid ongoing US regulatory pressure.

• New Deloitte report shows growing corporate interest in AI agents, with 52% of executives keen to pursue development.

• Google expands NotebookLM Plus access through Google One AI Premium, offering enhanced features for individual users.

• Huawei defies sanctions with strong 22% revenue growth to ¥860 billion ($118.25B) in 2024.

• Microsoft faces criticism over auto-enrollment of users into pricier Microsoft 365 plans with Copilot AI features.

• London faces massive 400 GW power grid backlog for datacenter construction, with most requests unlikely to materialize.

• DeepMind's AlphaGeometry2 matches human gold medalists in solving complex Olympic math problems.

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