With so much news coming out through To help readers keep up to date, we have put togetra the weekly tech recap, where we take a look at the top news stories making waves in the world of technology. This week, Openai Took a Page out of Deepsek's Playbook, Apple's iPhones Got their first porn app in the eu, India's finance ministry banned the use of chatgpt and Deepsek, and more.
Top tech news of the week:
1) Chatgpt pulls a page out of deepsek's playbook:
After rolling out its o3-mini reasoning model to all users last week, Openai Started Provided a more detailed chain of thought for the model, Taking inspiration from Chinese Rival Deepsek R1. However, Unlike Deepsek, Chatgpt Still only provides a summary of its reasoning and not the raw data. Openai Says Providing this data makes it “Easier for people to understand how the model thoughts” (vai techradar).
For context, unlike the traditional models like Openai's GPT-4O and Deepsek's V3, Reasoning Models are meant to MIMIC HUMAN THINKING EHINKING PROCESS ARECIST PROCESS which is called to implex process problem Solving of the ai. One of the reasons why Deepsek Shot to Fame Last Month Was That The Company Allowed Users To However, despite a detailed chain of thought, Deepsek Still refuses to answer questions related to tainmen incidence or north eastern states of India.
Meanwhile, Openai also added a new 'Deep Research' mode to chatgpt, allowing users to perform multi-step research on the web for more complex tasks. Notable, Deep Research is Openai's second ai agent, following the launch of operator ai for browser-Related Tasks Last Month.
2) First Porn App Arrives on App Store:
Apple Strongly criticized the digital markets act song afer The new app called Hot Tub Became available via a third party app store called altstore pal.
Hot Tub Markets Itself as an Content Browser offers users the choice to browse adult content in a private and secure manner with any ads or tracking.
On the release of Hot Tub, AltStore wrote in a social media post, “We feel this is necessary to fight back against recent harmful policies by politicians, Meta, and others, and we encourage everyone to help however you can”
“We are deeply concerned about the safety risks that hardcore porn apps of this type create for eu users, especially kids. This app and others like it will undermine consumer trust and confidence in our ecosystem that we have worked for more than a decade to make the best in the world. “Apple reacted to the available of hot tub.
3) Finance ministry bans use of deepseek – chatgpt:
Finance ministry has been asked its employers to avoid using ai tools Reported, Citing an internal department advisory.
“It has been determined that AI tools and AI Apps (Such as Chatgpt, Deepsek etc.) in the office computers and devices poses for confidanuality of (government) data and documents,” Y as saying.
4) China launches investigation into google's antitrust practices:
China Announced on Tuesday that it has launched an antitrust investigation into google for allegedly violating the country's anti-monopoly law. An official notice from China's state administration for market regulation confirmed that android maker had been placed under placed under investigation in accordance with the law.
Google is alredy under scrutiny for its monopolistic practices in Several Countries Around the World, Including Its Home Country, Where it is Landmark Case Last Year. However, the timing of China's announcing of the new action against Google is suspect, giving that the investigation came shortly after the Trump Administration's 10 Percent Tarifs on us Goods Went Into Effect.
5) Elon musk calls out subreddit for breaking the law, reddit takes action:
Social Media Platform Reddit Temporary Banned The R/WhitePeopletWitter Subreddit This Week Folling a post by billing Reddit said the communication was being suspended for 72 hours due to the 'Prevalence of Vioilent Content'.
In a post on x (formerly twitter), a user called 'Reddit Lies' Posted Screenshots from R/WhitePePletWitter where people were people with the ideasing Rol of Various Systems Within The Us Federal Government in Recent Days.
In Response to that post, Musk Wrote, “They have broken the law.”
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