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Where Silicon Valley meets Wall Street, TechCheck dives deep into stocks, trades, trends and opportunities focused on new technologies while highlighting news from mega-cap heavyweights, social media darlings, streaming giants, growth software and red-hot disruptors. Everyday TechCheck delivers investors what they need to know with compelling in-depth reporting and analysis from investors, analysts and leaders in the industry.

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00:08:37

Perplexity’s case for U.S. TikTok ownership, Plus...

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2025/02/05

Perplexity CEO and Co-Founder Aravind Srinivas is making the case for why his startup is the best positioned to take over TikTok U.S. operations. Plus, what people get wrong about the difference between DeepSeek the app, and DeepSeek the model as security concerns grow.

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00:08:17

Google faces uphill AI battle in 2025 2/4/2025

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2025/02/04

Google parent company Alphabet hitting a record high ahead of reporting today even as China hits the tech giant with an antitrust probe. We look at what investors will be looking for in Q4 results, including AI plans as the race for the best AI product rapidly changes shape.

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00:06:24

Sam Altman’s post-DeepSeek mea culpa, Plus Ontario...

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2025/02/03

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman saying in a Reddit AMA Friday that his company has been ‘on the wrong side of history’ on open source AI as DeepSeek continues to roil the race. Plus, Ontario Premier Doug Ford scraps a Starlink deal as Elon Musk’s companies begin to be targeted in retaliation to Trump’s tariffs.

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00:10:41

Big Tech rushes to adopt DeepSeek 01/31/25

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2025/01/31

Chinese startup DeepSeek sparking a sell off this week that sent Nvidia and Microsoft shares slipping downward. We look at how even as the new open-source model poses a threat to big tech, major AI companies are quickly embracing DeepSeek’s reasoning model.

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00:06:39

How DeepSeek kicked off a new AI race 1/29/25

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2025/01/29

Tech stocks mixed today as the AI trade tries to adjust to a new normal post-DeepSeek. We look at why the AI race will never be the same, and why OpenAI is accusing DeepSeek of training off their models.

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00:14:15

Aaron Levie on the AI paradigm shift after DeepSeek,...

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2025/01/28

DeepSeek has upended the conventional wisdom about what it takes to make an advanced large language model, but as the market reacts, Box CEO Aaron Levie says there are very few losers from the breakthrough. Plus, we talk to Kyle Bass about DeepSeek changes the state of the AI arms race between the U.S. and China.

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00:18:03

How China’s DeepSeek upended the AI landscape 1/27/25

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2025/01/27

China’s DeepSeek model sent markets reeling Monday as investors digest the impressive performance and reportedly low cost of the advanced large language model. We look at how DeepSeek has skyrocketed to the top of the Apple App store charts, and what consumer adoption of Chinese AI models means for the future.

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00:40:05

TechCheck Takes: Why China’s DeepSeek is putting...

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2025/01/27

An AI lab out of China has ignited panic throughout Silicon Valley after releasing AI models that can outperform America’s best despite being built more cheaply and with less-powerful chips. DeepSeek unveiled a free, open-source large-language model in late December that it says took only two months and less than $6 million to build. CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa interviews Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas and explains why the DeepSeek has raised alarms on whether America’s global lead in AI is shrinking.

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00:07:16

TechCheck+ Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi 1/23/25

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2025/01/23

Ali Ghodsi, Databricks CEO, joins Deirdre Bosa to discuss Databricks recent investment from Meta, and much more.

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00:03:10

Tech CEOs sound alarm on Chinese AI breakthroughs...

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2025/01/23

Chinese internet firm ByteDance unveiling a new top-performing model that escalates the AI competition between China and the U.S. We look at how key American AI leaders at Davos are reacting to the way Chinese AI advances are changing the race.

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00:07:25

Trump revokes Biden’s AI safety order as Chinese...

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2025/01/21

Key guardrails around advanced AI models are now gone after President Trump revoked Biden’s executive order on AI safety. Critics claimed the E-O stifled America’s ability to innovate, and its removal comes at a key inflection point in the AI race between the U.S. and China.

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00:15:01

Behind the scenes at a quantum lab, SandboxAQ CEO on...

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2025/01/17

Behind the scenes at a quantum lab, SandboxAQ CEO on outlook, plus the U.S. TikTok alternatives users are flocking toDescription: Quantum computing stocks have had a volatile few months, with investors asking when companies will begin offering commercially viable solutions. We went behind the scenes at a leading quantum lab in Silicon Valley to find out, and talked to the CEO of the startup Sandbox AQ which is at the forefront of quantum development. Plus, as the fate of TikTok hangs in limbo,

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00:07:03

OpenAI’s unveils new rival to Siri, Alexa 01/15/25

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2025/01/15

2025 is expected to be the year of the AI Agent and ChatGPT developer OpenAI making the first move. We look at their new ‘Tasks’ feature that OpenAI’s President and Co-Founder calls “Baby Steps” in the direction of the agentic future.

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00:09:51

TikTok “Refugees” stream to Chinese app RedNote 01/14/25

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2025/01/14

A report out today claims China is exploring a sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations to Elon Musk. With just days to go before the ban is set to take effect, we look at how another Chinese app is already rocketing to the top of the charts as TikTok users look for alternatives.

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00:05:30

Critics pan Zuckerberg’s move towards MAGA 1/13/25

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2025/01/13

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continuing his MAGA makeover in a recent podcast appearance with Joe Rogan where he slammed Apple for a lack of innovation. We dig into how critics are responding to Zuckerberg’s public shift ahead of Trump’s second term.

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00:06:03

Nvidia slams newly reported AI chip export limits...

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2025/01/10

AI chip giant Nvidia coming out hard against newly reported AI chip export limits that the Biden administration is expected to announce. The three-tiered system would put new caps on companies and countries in an effort to maintain U.S. AI dominance. Plus, the fate of the TikTok ban now rests in the hands of the Supreme Court who heard oral arguments today in Washington.

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00:09:28

TikTok Shop rival Whatnot raises $265M 1/8/25

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2025/01/08

Just days before the Supreme Court hears the TikTok ban, TikTok Shop rival Whatnot announcing they’ve hit a nearly $5B valuation as part of its latest funding round. Plus, we talk to one Quantum CEO who is pushing back on Jensen Huang’s comments that the technology is still decades away.

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00:06:56

Zuckerberg’s Trump turn pressures Google 1/7/25

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2025/01/07

Mark Zuckerberg and Meta continuing their Trump charm offensive with an announcement today that the social media giant is ending fact checking. As more Silicon Valley leaders make public overtures to Trump, we look at what it could mean for the Tech Giants who haven’t.

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00:08:45

Sam Altman hints AI's next key breakthrough is within...

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2025/01/06

This weekend OpenAI CEO Sam Altman saying that Artificial General Intelligence – a metric that would mean AI has caught up to human reasoning – is within reach. Plus, we look at viral videos that are raising questions about trust in self-driving technology.

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00:06:56

AI results in focus for CES 2025 1/3/25

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2025/01/03

Next week one of the biggest tech events of 2025 kicks off in Las Vegas. The Consumer Electronics Show – better known as CES – showcases some of the biggest names and advances in tech. We dig into what to expect as the focus turns to progress in AI applications, and signs of returns on the massive investments made in the technology.

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