Despite all beliefs to the contrary, the billionaires who have been seen in President Donald Trump's orbit since he won the presidency for a second time last November are not mere sycophants to his regime. Former Washington Post political cartoonist Ann Telnaes should know. Last month, Telnaes quit her job after her editor refused to publish what turned out to be her last cartoon for the newspaper. In it, Telnaes drew Amazon and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, OpenAI billionaire Sam Altman, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, and Mickey Mouse (representing media giant Disney/American Broadcasting Company) either kneeling or bowing face down in front of a statue of the president. In explaining her decision to resign from the Post, Telnaes wrote, "Owners of such press organizations are responsible for safeguarding that free press – and trying to get in the good graces of an autocrat-in-waiting will only result in undermining that free press."

DeepSeek said its newly popular app was hit with a cyber-attack on Monday, which forced the Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations. The attack came after the DeepSeek AI assistant app skyrocketed to the top of Apple's App Store, becoming the highest rated free app in the US, and climbed high in Google's Play Store. On its status page, DeepSeek said it started to investigate the issue late Monday night Beijing time. After about two hours of monitoring, the company said it was the victim of a "large-scale malicious attack". While DeekSeek limited registrations, existing users were still able to log on as usual.

Vivek Ramaswamy proposed that Vice President Harris debate him on the topic of artificial intelligence, as speculation over former President Trump's choice of running mate swirls. "Kamala is in charge of AI policy right now. In a debate, I'd challenger [sic] her to see if she can spell'AI.' I'd bet on the same blank stare I got from Nikki when I asked her to name 3 provinces in eastern Ukraine," Ramaswamy wrote Tuesday night, referencing a moment from a GOP debate in December. Ramaswamy's post challenging Harris came in response to Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec writing, "Imagine what Vivek would do to Kamala in a debate." In November, Harris notably gave a speech on the future of artifical intelligence in London, vowing that, the "United States will continue to work with the G7; the United Nations; and a diverse range of governments, from the Global North to the Global South, to promote AI safety and equity around the world."

GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy discusses whether President Biden will be the 2024 Democrat nominee on "Hannity." FIRST ON FOX: Vivek Ramaswamy's Republican presidential campaign is explaining the former CEO's "awakening" on the threat China poses to the United States, following scrutiny for his former company's partnership with a Chinese Communist Party-backed company just a few years ago. Ramaswamy has repeatedly expressed his support for banning American companies from expanding into China. Just Thursday, he unveiled his plan to "decouple" from China in a speech in his home state of Ohio. "Unless you stop turning our companies into lobbying pawns, unless you actually play by the same set of rules abiding by the same standards we agreed to, then we're cutting the cord," he said.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tore into GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy one day after the first primary debate in Milwaukee, arguing the entrepreneur's answers showed he has "absolutely no idea what he's talking about." Christie and Ramaswamy sparred over several issues during the two-hour debate from the United States' role in funding the war in Ukraine to supporting former President Donald Trump if he's convicted. Trump praised Ramaswamy's debate performance on his social media site Truth Social. Ramaswamy also praised Trump on stage as the "best president of the 21st century." "Well, I'm stunned that as I was talking about Donald Trump and all the ways that he's let down our party and our country, that he [Trump] didn't mention me as a winner of the debate last night," Christie said Thursday on "Your World."

On Wednesday night in Milwaukee, eight Republicans trailing Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential primary gathered for the cycle's first debate and, with a clear and united voice, denounced one man: Vivek Ramaswamy. With Trump running away with the race and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis behind him in a clear (if tenuous) second, it was somehow the 38-year-old Ramaswamy who took the most direct hits. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's was likely the most memorable: After two of Ramaswamy's high-energy, relentlessly locquacious answers, Christie described him as "a guy who sounds like ChatGPT." Former vice president Mike Pence made a glaringly condescending reference to Ramaswamy "learning on the job," to which the crowd responded with a deserved oooooh. The Super PAC that supports DeSantis called Ramaswamy a fraud on Twitter, while you can see former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's opinion of him expressed nonverbally above.

In an unassuming office on a quiet, mostly residential street in Mountain View, California -- located eight minutes from Google's sprawling headquarters -- a couple of ex-Googlers and their team of 50 are trying to build a search engine they hope will someday rival their former employer's. The company, Neeva, was started in 2020 by Sridhar Ramaswamy, who ran Google's $162 billion advertising arm before stepping down in 2018, and Vivek Raghunathan, a former Google vice president who worked on monetizing YouTube and other parts of the company. For a few years, the startup, which has raised over $77 million from some of Silicon Valley's top investors, focused on differentiating itself from Google by shunning invasive advertising and allowing power users to pay for extra features. Then, around the end of last year, the team at Neeva watched as a chatbot called ChatGPT created by the San Francisco–based startup OpenAI went viral. ChatGPT's ability to divine answers to nearly every question with an eerily humanlike sentience made it an instant hit, unleashing a modern AI wave. Suddenly, people around the world were talking about replacing Google search with ChatGPT. After all, if a chatbot could instantly answer any question for you, why would you need a search engine that simply spat out a bunch of links for you to trawl through?

Pausing AI development in the U.S. as China pushes forward in the sector does not alleviate the risks posed by the new technology, Vivek Ramaswamy said. SEABROOK, N.H. – Pausing artificial intelligence development in the U.S. while China continues to advance its own programs would create a risk to Americans, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told Fox News. "A temporary pause amongst U.S. companies -- if China is actually running forward with it -- that doesn't do anything in alleviating the risks of AI," Ramaswamy said in an exclusive interview. "It exacerbates them because Americans are at an even greater risk instead." China's deployment of AI could pose threats to the U.S., Ramaswamy told Fox News.

FOX Business correspondent Lydia Hu has the latest on jobs at risk as AI further develops, on'America's Newsroom.' As concerns grow over the rapid development of artificial intelligence, Republican presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson is highlighting the "positive potential" but also the "negative ramifications" of AI. And Hutchinson, a former congressman who later served two terms as Arkansas governor, is urging Congress to act. Hutchinson, who announced on Sunday that he would formally launch a presidential campaign later this month, spoke in the wake of a letter signed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and other tech giants citing "profound risks to society and humanity" and called for a six-month pause to advanced AI developments. The letter asked AI developers to "immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4." If the moratorium cannot be done quickly, "governments should step in and institute a moratorium," the letter added.

DataGrade CEO Joe Toscano says the danger with artificial intelligence programs is'how fast it's moving' as Elon Musk calls for a six month pause on new AI. As concerns grow over the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy doubts that President Biden "has the capacity to get his arms around this issue." "I don't think it's going to be an issue that he or even his ambles in this administration are going to be able to wrap their heads around," Ramaswamy said in an interview on Thursday with Fox News Digital. Ramaswamy, a multimillionaire, best-selling author and conservative political commentator who launched his GOP presidential campaign last month, spoke in the wake of a letter signed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and other tech giants that cited "profound risks to society and humanity" and called for a six-month pause to advanced AI developments. The letter asked AI developers to "immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4."