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Western companies are experimenting with DeepSeek

Two months on from its release, DeepSeek’s R1, which wowed experts and caused American tech stocks to crash in January, is still unbeaten. The Chinese firm’s artificial-intelligence (AI) model remains the best open-source offering released by any lab, anywhere in the world. Back home it has spread like wildfire. It is catching on in the…

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MPs debate rival bids to decriminalise abortion

Getty Images MPs are debating two options for decriminalising abortions in England and Wales. Labour MPs Tonia Antoniazzi and Stella Creasy have tabled rival amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill, both aimed at ending police investigations into abortion under a 164-year-old Victorian law. Abortion is considered an issue of conscience at Westminster, and MPs…

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LuisaViaRoma, THEBS.com and Camera Buyer Italia launch Italy’s first luxury marketplace

Translated by Nicola Mira Published June 17, 2025 Luisaviaroma, THEBS.com and Camera Buyer Italia (CBI) have set up a strategic partnership to create the first genuine Italian luxury e-marketplace. The goal of this new digital platform is to transform Italy’s fragmented high-end distribution landscape into a unified and globally competitive ecosystem. For decades, the creative,…

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Gemini 2.5 model family expands

We designed Gemini 2.5 to be a family of hybrid reasoning models that provide amazing performance, while also being at the Pareto Frontier of cost and speed. Today, we’re taking the next step with our 2.5 Pro and Flash models by releasing them as stable and generally available. And we’re bringing you 2.5 Flash-Lite in…

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