U.S. officials are investigating whether Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek skirted American export restrictions on advanced chip sales and bought advanced Nvidia (NVDA) semiconductors through third parties in Singapore,

Officials in the White House and FBI have begun a probe into DeepSeek to determine whether banned NVIDIA chips were used to create the R1 model.

Los Alamos National Laboratory is partnering with OpenAI to conduct national security research. The two entities, which announced the partnership in separate announcements, said LANL will install OpenAI's latest o-series models onto its Venado supercomputer,

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)-backed OpenAI is collaborating with the U.S. National Laboratories to boost their scientific research using the company's latest AI reasoning models. Under the agreement, OpenAI will work with Microsoft and will deploy o1 or another o-series AI model on Venado,