USA: Trump’s tariffs hit China hard before – this time, it’s ready

A hiss and puff of compressed air shapes the smooth leather, bringing to life an all-American cowboy boot in a factory on China’s eastern coast. Then comes another one as…

USA: OpenAI says Chinese rivals using its work for their AI apps

The maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI, has complained that rivals, including those in China, are using its work to make rapid advances in developing their own artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The…

China: DeepSeek AI on US national security radar

US officials are considering the national security implications of an apparent artificial intelligence (AI) breakthrough by Chinese firm DeepSeek, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. The announcement comes…

China: DeepSeek shows AI’s centre of power could shift away from US

DeepSeek’s arrival at the top of the Apple App Store charts has placed it firmly in the public consciousness, shaking the belief that the US would continue as the largely…

Australia: Authorities warn users about DeepSeek

Australia’s science minister, Ed Husic, has become the first member of a Western government to raise privacy concerns about DeepSeek, the Chinese chatbot causing turmoil on the markets and in…

UK: Britain will not be able to resist China’s tech dominance

China’s success in technology has not come out of thin air, even given the unlikely origins of the DeepSeek deep shock. The obscure Hangzhou hedge fund that coded a ChatGPT…

China: ‘AI heroes’ overcame US curbs to stun Silicon Valley

When ChatGPT stormed the world of artificial intelligence (AI), an inevitable question followed: did it spell trouble for China, America’s biggest tech rival? Two years on, a new AI model…

China: DeepSeek AI shakes the tech industry

The speed at which the new Chinese AI app DeepSeek has shaken the technology industry, the markets and the bullish sense of American superiority in the field of artificial intelligence…

USA: CIA believes lab leak most likely source of Covid outbreak

The CIA on Saturday offered a new assessment on the origin of the Covid outbreak, saying the coronavirus is “more likely” to have leaked from a Chinese lab than to…

Philippines: Scientists stop research survey in disputed sea amid China’s ‘harassment’

The  Philippines says it has suspended a scientific survey in the South China Sea after its fisheries vessels faced “dangerous harassment” and aggressive behaviour from China’s coastguard and navy. The…