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If China has done to Sam Altman what his OpenAI has been accused of doing to creatives, it would take a heart of stone not to laugh
I once saw an episode of where a man called the cops to report his car stolen, only for it to turn out he’d stolen it from someone else in the first place. I couldn’t help thinking of him this week while watching OpenAI’s Sam Altman wet his pants about the fact that a Chinese hedge fund might have made unauthorised use of his own chatbot models, including ChatGPT, to train its new little side project. This is the cheaper, more open, extremely share-price-slashing DeepSeek.
As news of DeepSeek with the tech stock market, OpenAI pressed its hanky to its nose and : “We are aware of and reviewing indications that DeepSeek may have inappropriately distilled our models, and will share information as we know more,” this ran. “We take aggressive, proactive countermeasures to protect our technology.” Oooooooooh! I want to say “welcome to America’s Dumbest Tech Barons”, except I can’t, because I think we all know that no law enforcement is coming to get Sam for the stuff he’s alleged to have made first. That was the good type of alleged theft, whatever the claims of all the belatedly trying to claw something back for the alleged copyright victims of his firm’s own inappropriate methods.
Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

The proclamation orders adds six technologies, including DeepSeek, Lemon8 and RedNote, to the state's prohibited technologies list.

Trump says that he’s “serious as a heart attack” when he promises to impose tariffs on everyone, including a 25% tariff on Canadian and Mexican imports. When he backtracked on tariffs on Colombian ...

If enacted tariffs will increase inflation, slow economic growth, and result in US consumers footing the bill
As Donald Trump on many countries, he is boasting that his taxes on imports will be a boon to the US economy, but most economists strongly disagree – many say Trump’s tariffs will increase inflation, slow economic growth, hurt US workers and result in American consumers footing the bill for his tariffs.
“Virtually all economists think that the impact of the tariffs will be very bad for America and for the world,” said Joseph Stiglitz, an economics professor at Columbia University and a winner of the Nobel prize in economic sciences. “They will almost surely be inflationary.”
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The proclamation orders adds six technologies, including DeepSeek, Lemon8 and RedNote, to the state's prohibited technologies list.

Holding back Chinese technology like DeepSeek and TikTok could be good for America, but it also hurts America.

Holding back Chinese technology like DeepSeek and TikTok could be good for America, but it also hurts America.

Investors pay close attention to tech company’s foray into AI after Apple Intelligence’s glitches and inaccuracies
slightly beat analysts’ expectations in its first-quarter earnings for fiscal year 2025 on Thursday. The iPhone-maker’s revenue rose by 4%, coming in at $124.30bn, barely above estimates of $124.12bn. Earnings per share were $2.40, just ahead of analysts’ expectations of $2.35.
Shares rose more than 8% in extended trading after Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, indicated in an earnings call on Thursday that the company was on the trajectory for revenue growth next quarter.

Two Chinese nationals appear to have been among the victims of crashed American Airlines Flight 5342, Beijing’s embassy in Washington said in a statement on Thursday that provided no details about ...

DeepSeek’s home | Bare bones | Liquid lift-off | Labour faithfuls? | School sports | Questionable teaching
Rachel Reeves is behind the tech curve in proposing to create “Europe’s Silicon Valley” (). She should surely be considering an equivalent of Hangzhou, home of DeepSeek, the company that knocked of US tech stocks in a day.John LoweryLondon
• A “spectacular” vertebra has been “found online” (). Given the recent changes to Meta, I doubt it was Mark Zuckerberg’s.Dr Jonathan J RossSheffield

It's the Chinese Lunar New Year! The perfect time to celebrate and dine in some of the oldest Chinese restaurants in America.

Prequel focuses on xenophobia in turn-of-the-century San Francisco with surprising wit and silliness
This prequel to the huge-grossing , though focused on anti-Chinese xenophobia in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, manages to be a rare example of a Sino-blockbuster not filled with maudlin patriotism; it mostly carries its cultural message charmingly and with plenty of self-deprecating humour. At one point, an imperial Chinese investigator toughs it out in order to form an alliance with a gaggle of Irish hoodlums straight from Gangs of New York. “You held yourself so well back there,” his underlings congratulate him, before their leader’s legs give out. “Don’t let the Americans see. I’m about to pee myself!”
The story here is that malevolent forces are stirring the great American melting pot. The son of local Tong leader Bai Xuanling (Chow Yun-fat, still with charisma on tap) is arrested for the murder of the daughter of racist Republican congressman Grant (John Cusack), so the former sends for wunderkind sleuth Qin Fu (Haoran Liu) – apparently deputised by the actual Sherlock Holmes – to get his kid off the hook. Also killed the same night was a Native American elder, whose son Gui (Baoquiang Wang) swears revenge and becomes pig-tailed Watson to Fu’s junior Holmes. No explanation (at first) for why he can speak fluent Hebei dialect.