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A small artificial intelligence lab stunned the world with its shock breakthrough earlier this year. Saritha Rai joins K. Oanh Ha on the Big Take Asia podcast to unpack what DeepSeek's rise tells us about the battle for AI dominance. Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts https://lnkd.in/efSsuaje

At the Qatar Economic Forum, Elon Musk and Mishal Husain talk about the Tesla backlash, AI regulation and DOGE’s success rate.

Is the price of a power drill going up soon? Probably not, if Lowe’s and Home Depot are any indication. Even though Lowe’s gets about 20% of its goods from China, it mirrored its top rival in committing to keep prices “competitive,” saying on an earnings call that it would work with suppliers to manage any potential cost hikes. The company gets about 60% of its goods from the US – and it’s working to further diversify its supply chain as well. “We’re not donating share to any competitor by sitting back and not being priced competitively across any of the categories that we’re selling, whether they’re domestic or imported,” CEO Marvin Ellison said. With Jaewon Kang for Bloomberg News:

"The AIDS medication program is continuing." Elon Musk discusses cuts to USAID, and addresses the disputed disruption of an initiative to combat HIV. #QatarEconomicForum: bloom.bg/4dCgXLl

Conservative hardliners threatened to block President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending package just as an agreement to increase the state and local tax deduction removed a key obstacle.

Lots of approaches to fighting malaria try to either kill the mosquito, block it from biting people or treat and prevent the infectious disease in humans. But what about treating the mosquitos themselves, so they don't go on and infect people? That's the interesting new approach being advanced by researchers at institutions including the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Malaria is spread by mosquitos infected with a parasite. So the team identified a group of about two dozen drugs that work to kill the parasite. The idea is that when mosquitos land on bed nets treated with the compounds, they'd be treated for the parasite. The approach still needs to be tested further, but the researchers will have to find new funding sources amid a National Institutes of Health funding freeze. Read more in my latest for Bloomberg Green (and to peep some skin-crawling mosquito photos) - gift link here:

The US and Qatar are natural partners when it comes to AI investment, according to Qatar Investment Authority CEO Mohammed Al Sowaidi bloom.bg/3H3JgGt #QatarEconomicForum

AI Mode in Google Search is now available to all US users. It's just one of the AI announcements from the company's annual Google I/O conference this week. Jackie Davalos shares the key takeaways from the event http://bloom.bg/4doXUUB

Humanoid robots are coming, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says. And "It's going to feel very sci-fi." Follow Emily Chang as she gets an inside look at the $500 billion Stargate project aiming to power the future of AI. More on The Circuit: https://lnkd.in/eNXGh3xF

What defines a great board director?   Mellody Hobson tells Alex Rodriguez the qualities that matter most.   Watch the full episode of The Deal on the Bloomberg app or listen wherever you get your podcasts https://lnkd.in/exqzTyw5