BENGALURU, Feb 21 — ChatGPT developer OpenAI's weekly active users surged past 400 million in February, a company spokesperson told Reuters yesterday, highlighting rapid growth in the adoption of artificial intelligence tools.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — The Malaysian government takes seriously the allegation that the country is being used as a transit point for smuggling Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China and is committed to complying with multilateral international export control regulations.

SYDNEY, Feb 4 — Australia has banned DeepSeek from all government devices over concerns that the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup poses security risks, the government said today.

TAIPEI, Feb 3 — Taiwan today banned government departments from using Chinese startup DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence service as it was a security risk, toughening language from last week which said it should not be used.

SHAH ALAM, Feb 2 — The government is studying the impact of China’s open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform DeepSeek on Malaysia, said Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo.

NEW YORK, Jan 30 — Days after Chinese upstart DeepSeek revealed a breakthrough in cheap AI computing that shook the US technology industry, the chief executives of Microsoft and Meta defended massive spending that they said was key to staying competitive in the new field.

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 — Microsoft and OpenAI are probing if data output from the ChatGPT maker’s technology was obtained in an unauthorised manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek, Bloomberg News reported yesterday.

SINGAPORE, Jan 28 — Japanese technology shares fell on Tuesday as a global market rout sparked by the emergence of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model entered day two, with investors questioning the sky-high valuation and dominance of AI bellwethers.