**πŸŽ‰ Today’s Tech & AI News Digest πŸŽ‰**

πŸ€– OpenAI’s o3-mini Model Release
OpenAI launches the o3-mini reasoning model, enhancing its AI capabilities and making it available to free ChatGPT users.

OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model

πŸ’¬ DeepSeek’s AI Chatbot Popularity
DeepSeek’s AI chatbot app gains massive popularity, raising questions about the U.S. maintaining its lead in the AI race.

DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

πŸ’Ό US Probes DeepSeek’s Use of Nvidia Chips
The US investigates DeepSeek’s use of Nvidia chips amid rising concerns about the AI race with China.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-01-31/bloomberg-technology-01-31-2025-video

🎭 Sam Altman’s Ousting from OpenAI
Sam Altman’s removal as CEO of OpenAI has inspired cultural discussions and even a fictionalized play.

Sam Altman’s ousting from OpenAI has entered the cultural zeitgeist

πŸ’‘ Microsoft Forms New AI Impact Unit
Microsoft creates the Advanced Planning Unit to study and understand the societal impacts of AI.

Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI’s impacts

πŸ” Anthropic CEO Avoids Deposition
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei attempts to avoid deposition in an OpenAI copyright lawsuit.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to duck a deposition in an OpenAI copyright lawsuit

πŸ“Š MLCommons and Hugging Face Release Speech Data Set
MLCommons and Hugging Face release a massive public domain speech data set for AI research.

MLCommons and Hugging Face team up to release massive speech data set for AI research

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