Sources tell Reuters that the European Commission is opting for “modest” fines due to “the short duration of the alleged violations... and the geopolitical climate.” Both Meta and Apple have been under scrutiny from the Commission since last year, while Google is rumored to face a fine as well.
Officials are also weighing banning DeepSeek from US app stores and “putting limits” on cloud providers’ ability to offer access to its cost-efficient AI models, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Both the Navy and NASA have already blocked the Chinese startup’s technology over security concerns.
The company, called Dynatomics, aims to use large language models to “create highly optimized designs for a wide variety of objects and then have a factory build them,” according to a report from The Information.
The team is reportedly led by Chris Anderson, who previously served as the CTO of Page’s now-shuttered “flying car” startup Kitty Hawk.
[theinformation.com]
