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What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company upending the stock market?
A frenzy over an artificial intelligence chatbot made by Chinese tech startup DeepSeek was upending stock markets Monday and fueling debates over the economic and geopolitical competition between the U.S. and China in developing AI technology. DeepSeek’s AI assistant became the No. 1 downloaded free app on Apple’s iPhone store Monday, propelled by curiosity about the ChatGPT competitor. Part of...
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What is the artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek?
The Chinese company released a free, open-source large language model in late December that can outperform leading models in the U.S.
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Trump says China controls the Panama Canal — but here's how it really works
Early this month, Trump suggested he would consider using military force to regain control of the canal from Panama, one of the U.S.’s closest allies in Latin America, describing it as “vital” for national security.
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Trump says he's considering a 10% tariff on China beginning as soon as Feb. 1
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump floated a 10% duty on China, with an expected start date of Feb. 1.
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Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban
Barring any last-minute action from Congress or the White House, TikTok’s Chinese parent company must find a buyer if it wants the app to stay active in the U.S.
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Supreme Court upholds a law that would ban TikTok in the United States
The law in question requires China-based TikTok owner ByteDance to divest itself of the company, arguing U.S. national security concerns.
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More than 100 people killed by earthquake in Tibet
The 7.1 magnitude quake struck parts of western China and Nepal on Tuesday morning.
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New luxury public bathroom shapes unique experiential sense in China mall
“People do not have to leave the city and its tracks to experience poetry and wilderness”, said the architectural design firm behind the concept.
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US Treasury says its computers were hacked by a Chinese ‘threat actor' in a ‘major incident'
The U.S. Treasury Department said a state-sponsored Chinese hacking operation was able to use third-party software to tap into desktop computers of Treasury employees.
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Treasury says Chinese hackers remotely accessed workstations, documents in ‘major' cyber incident
The Treasury Department says Chinese hackers remotely accessed several employee workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider.
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Chinese workers found in ‘slavery-like conditions' in Brazil taken to hotels as probe begins
Dozens of Chinese workers have been taken and put up in hotels in Brazil’s tropical northeastern region after local labor authorities found them at a construction site for electric vehicle automaker BYD.
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Sweeping Chinese hack of U.S. telecoms firms is ‘still going on,' Mayorkas says
A sweeping Chinese government hacking campaign against American telecoms firms is a “very, very serious matter” that is “still going on,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday in an interview on MSNBC. Mayorkas confirmed that the long-term effort, nicknamed Salt Typhoon, was “a very sophisticated hack” that was not done “overnight.” The hacking campaign is one of the largest intelligence compromises...
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Americans can now visit China for up to 10 days without a visa
China said it was expanding its visa-free transit policy, allowing eligible foreign travelers to stay in parts of the country as long as 10 days as officials try to attract more overseas visitors.
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US and China renew science and technology pact amid growing rivalry
The agreement’s extension had been under negotiation for months after U.S. lawmakers raised concerns that cooperation with China could undermine national security.
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3 Americans held for years in China have been released, White House says
Three American citizens imprisoned for years by China have been released.
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45 pro-democracy activists get 4 to 10 years in prison in Hong Kong's biggest national security case
Forty-five ex-lawmakers and activists have been sentenced to four to 10 years in prison in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement.
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US uncovers ‘broad and significant' Chinese spying effort on American telecom companies
Hackers affiliated with Beijing have compromised the networks of “multiple” telecommunications companies to obtain customer call records and gain access to the private communications of “a limited number of individuals,” the FBI said.
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35 people killed after driver rams his car into crowd in China
35 people were killed and dozens more were injured in an apparent intentional hit-and-run incident in southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, police said Tuesday.
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35 dead as a driver hits a crowd at sports center in a southern Chinese city
Chinese police say a driver has killed 35 people and injured another 43 severely when he deliberately rammed his car into people exercising at a sports center in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai.
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China's new focus in U.S. elections interference is not Harris-Trump presidential race
China’s latest efforts to influence the outcome of U.S. elections is shifting away from the presidential race and toward state and local candidates.