25 april 2026 · 14:35

DeepSeek V4 on Huawei Chips: US-China AI Decoupling

DeepSeek has released V4 optimised for Huawei Ascend chips, marking the moment US-China AI decoupling moved from policy paper to production reality. The White House has responded with accusations of industrial-scale model distillation, a charge that will reshape export controls, API access rules, and compliance calculations for European companies building on open-weight Chinese models. This episode also covers Google's $40 billion commitment to Anthropic, Apple's M4 Mac mini shortage driven by hyperscaler memory demand, and a federated learning platform for cancer research that shows how privacy-preserving AI can work in practice.