**🎉 Today’s Tech & AI News Digest 🎉**

🤖 OpenAI’s o3-mini Model Release
OpenAI launches the o3-mini reasoning model, enhancing its AI capabilities and making it available to free ChatGPT users.

OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model

💬 DeepSeek’s AI Chatbot Popularity
DeepSeek’s AI chatbot app gains massive popularity, raising questions about the U.S. maintaining its lead in the AI race.

DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

💼 US Probes DeepSeek’s Use of Nvidia Chips
The US investigates DeepSeek’s use of Nvidia chips amid rising concerns about the AI race with China.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-01-31/bloomberg-technology-01-31-2025-video

🎭 Sam Altman’s Ousting from OpenAI
Sam Altman’s removal as CEO of OpenAI has inspired cultural discussions and even a fictionalized play.

Sam Altman’s ousting from OpenAI has entered the cultural zeitgeist

💡 Microsoft Forms New AI Impact Unit
Microsoft creates the Advanced Planning Unit to study and understand the societal impacts of AI.

Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI’s impacts

🔍 Anthropic CEO Avoids Deposition
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei attempts to avoid deposition in an OpenAI copyright lawsuit.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to duck a deposition in an OpenAI copyright lawsuit

📊 MLCommons and Hugging Face Release Speech Data Set
MLCommons and Hugging Face release a massive public domain speech data set for AI research.

MLCommons and Hugging Face team up to release massive speech data set for AI research

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