CNBC’s Kate Rooney and OpenAI chief product officer Kevin Weil join 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the company's new initiatives and government partnerships, his thoughts on China's DeepSeek AI development,

The emergence of DeepSeek came shortly after President Trump unveiled his "Stargate" project to invest $500bn in advancing AI.

Also in today’s newsletter, OpenAI’s massive new funding round, and India’s Narendra Modi faces tough budget challenge

With an actual open source model, China's AI leader just whupped America's AI leader. Can Sam Altman fight back?

SoftBank could invest $15 billion to $25 billion directly into Microsoft-backed OpenAI, some of which may be used to pay for OpenAI's commitment to Stargate, Reuters had reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

Howard Lutnick, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Commerce Department, slammed China for allegedly using U.S.-manufactured technology to compete with American artificial intelligence

Anthropic's Dario Amodei explained why the DeepSeek AI isn't that surprising or cheap and how and why the US will reach AGI before China.

ChatGPT creator OpenAI on Wednesday said that Chinese companies are actively attempting to replicate its advanced AI models, prompting increased security measures and closer cooperation with US authorities.

ChatGPT maker says it will need extra protection from US government, following emergence of Chinese rival, DeepSeek.

However, the consensus is that DeepSeek is superior to ChatGPT for more technical tasks. If you use AI chatbots for logical reasoning, coding, or mathematical equations, you might want to try DeepSeek because you might find its outputs better.

OpenAI said on Wednesday that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's open-source models may have "inappropriately" based its work on the output of OpenAI's models, an OpenAI spokesperson told Axios. Why it matters: China's DeepSeek has taken the AI industry by storm with its R1 reasoning model that competes with OpenAI's o1,