November 21, 2025

Roundtables: How AI Is Changing the Economy

There’s a lot at stake when it comes to understanding how AI is changing the economy at large. What’s the right outlook to have? Join Mat Honan, editor in chief, for a special conversation with David Rotman, editor at large, and Richard Waters, Financial Times columnist, exploring what’s happening across industries and the market. Going live on December…

The Download: de-censoring DeepSeek, and Gemini 3

November 19, 2025
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Quantum physicists have shrunk and “de-censored” DeepSeek R1 The news: A group of quantum physicists at Spanish firm Multiverse Computing claims to have created a version of the powerful reasoning AI model DeepSeek…

Quantum physicists have shrunk and “de-censored” DeepSeek R1

November 19, 2025
A group of quantum physicists claims to have created a version of the powerful reasoning AI model DeepSeek R1 that strips out the censorship built into the original by its Chinese creators.  The scientists at Multiverse Computing, a Spanish firm specializing in quantum-inspired AI techniques, created DeepSeek R1 Slim, a model that is 55% smaller…