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DeepSeek Eyes $20B to Rival KIMI as Pentagon Pours $54B into AI Warfare

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Audio in Mandarin Chinese · English transcript below

$540B Pentagon AI bet, DeepSeek chases Moonshot, bots run shops/factories, Tesla FSD fuels war chest, ChatGPT storms cubicles—chaos unleashed!

Today, the world is rapidly accelerating into an era profoundly shaped by AI. On one hand, the valuation race among AI startups continues to intensify, with capital pouring in with unprecedented enthusiasm. On the other hand, at the national strategic level, resources are also being shifted at an astonishing pace towards AI-driven future defense. Notably, AI Agents have begun independently operating physical stores, signifying that AI's influence is permeating from macro-strategic levels to every corner of daily business operations.

Today's Top 3 Headlines

  1. Others

    DeepSeek Eyes Alibaba, Tencent Backing in China AI Funding Push – WSJ

    Potential investors are benchmarking DeepSeek against Chinese peer Moonshot, now valued at **$18 bn**, as both race to scale LLMs with limited compute.

    Source
  2. Military

    Pentagon Seeks $54B AI Warfare Budget Shift

    Pentagon seeks **$54B** for FY27, with autonomous-drone & AI-warfare funding up **24,000%**.

    Source
  3. Technology

    Honor 600 & 600 Pro Debut, iPhone Look-Alike Sparks Buzz

    Honor unveils 600 & 600 Pro, branding them “people’s flagships”; iPhone-look twins start at **€649.90** in Europe.

    Source

+12 more headlines

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  • San Francisco Store Goes 100% AI-Agent Run
  • Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini Robotics-ER, a New Inference Layer for Smarter Robots
  • 5 LLMs Demonstrate Autonomous Phishing-Campaign Skills in Red-Team Test
  • Tesla Q1 Revenue Surges on EV Sales Boom and FSD Subscription Upsell
  • Tesla Revenue Surges Again, Fueling AI and Robot Spending Spree
  • ChatGPT Unleashes Workspace Agents
  • OpenAI Launches Free ChatGPT for Doctors
  • Hacker News Debates AI Side Projects and the Rise of Cookie-Cutter UIs
  • Lu Chuan Warns: AI-Generated Films Are Disrupting Hollywood Scripts and Copyright
  • DeepSeek Eyes $20B Valuation in Mega AI Funding Round
  • London Police Eye Palantir AI to Supercharge Criminal Intelligence
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