<span>Story: From OpenAI’s DeepSeek setback to Amazon’s satellite launch, this is Tech Weekly.</span><span>:: Technology Weekly</span><span>OpenAI warned U.S. lawmakers about the conduct of Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek.</span><span>The Sam Altman-led company believes DeepSeek has tried to copy the U.S. model and use it for its own training, according to a memo seen by Reuters.</span><span>The technique is called distillation, in which older AI models evaluate the quality of answers from newer models, effectively transferring the learning from older versions.</span><span>DeepSeek and its parent company High-Flyer did not respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.</span><span>Russia has completely blocked WhatsApp.</span><span>The Kremlin accused Meta’s messaging app of not complying with local laws.</span><span>Moscow suggested that Russians should turn to state-backed “state messengers” called MAX.</span><span>But critics say the MAX is a surveillance tool, something Russian authorities deny.</span><span>The UK could ban children under 16 from using social media as early as this year.</span><span>It can also close loopholes where some AI chatbots fail to follow safety rules.</span><span>This is part of the government’s efforts to respond more quickly to digital risks.</span><span>After Australia became the first country in the world to ban social media for under-16s, Spain, Greece and Slovenia also said they were enacting bans.</span><span>Europe has launched its new Ariane 64 heavy-lift rocket.</span><span>It carries 32 Amazon Leo satellites and places them into low Earth orbit.</span><span>It marks the debut of the most powerful version of the Ariane 6 launcher developed by Arianespace, a joint venture between Airbus and Safran.</span><span>Amazon Leo is a low-Earth orbit satellite network designed to provide Internet services to customers beyond the reach of existing terrestrial networks and is comparable to SpaceX’s Starlink.</span><span>Samsung said it has started supplying its most advanced HBM4 chips to unnamed customers.</span><span>It is trying to catch up with rivals that provide key components for Nvidia’s artificial intelligence accelerator.</span><span>The global rush to build artificial intelligence data centers has spurred demand for such chips.</span><span>Semiconductors provide large amounts of data to accelerators, which are used to train and run artificial intelligence models.</span>
