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Brighthouse Financial Inc., spun off from MetLife Inc. almost eight years ago, is considering selling itself, the Financial Times Reported, and high-profile alternative asset managers are expected to bid for the life insurer and annuity provider.

SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to lead a $500 million funding round for Skild AI, a startup building robotics software, according to people familiar with the matter. The startup would be valued at $4 billion,

Overall revenue may have reached record levels, but big questions lurk about large parts of the iPhone maker’s business.

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In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, humans build the greatest computer ever, called Deep Thought, to answer the “ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.” After millions of years to think about it, it spits out the answer: 42. That leaves them even more confused, and needing to know what the question was.

Sources at Open AI believe DeepSeek unlawfully distilled data from ChatGPT, Open AI and Microsoft begin investigation.

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LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE followed other luxury goods groups and delivered better-than-anticipated sales growth in the final three months of the year. But the outperformance wasn’t as spectacular as that of Cartier-owner Cie Financiere Richemont SA, or even troubled British brand Burberry Group Plc, which both trounced expectations.

White House AI czar David Sacks alleged Tuesday that DeepSeek had used OpenAI’s data outputs to train its latest models through a process called distillation.

DeepSeek is causing havoc throughout the AI industry. U.S.-based tech companies that have heavily invested in AI saw their stocks take a tumble this week after the China-based startup released a new AI model on par with OpenAI's latest model, yet much cheaper to train — plus, DeepSeek made it free and open source.

Investors are displeased, but the strategy of moving away from lower-margin deliveries makes sense in the long run.