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California woman gets 41 months as birthright citizenship is thrust into spotlight with Trump’s return to White House
A California woman was sentenced on Monday to more than three years in prison in a long-running case over a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver babies who automatically became American citizens.
R Gary Klausner, a US district judge, gave Phoebe Dong a 41-month sentence. Dong and her husband were convicted in September of conspiracy and money laundering through their company, USA Happy Baby.

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 (AI) has been nothing short of stunning.

Why doubts have been raised about sustainability of US artificial intelligence boom
Investors have been amid surprise at a new, cheaper but still effective alternative Chinese technology.

Attack forces Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations as app becomes highest rated free app in US
DeepSeek said its newly popular app was hit with a cyber-attack on Monday, which forced the Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations. The attack came after the DeepSeek AI assistant app soared to the top of Apple’s App Store, becoming the highest rated free app in the US, and climbed high in Google’s Play Store.
On its , DeepSeek said it started to investigate the issue late Monday night Beijing time. After about two hours of monitoring, the company said it was the victim of a “large-scale malicious attack”. While DeepSeek limited registrations, existing users were still able to log on as usual. The app is now allowing registrations again.

A California woman was sentenced to 41 months in prison for helping Chinese women travel to the U.S. to deliver babies who automatically became American citizens.

Elon Musk’s company still imports large number of cars into Europe from its Shanghai factory
Tesla has filed a complaint against the European Commission after the imposition of tariffs by the bloc on its Chinese-made electric vehicles.
The EU announced its decision to in June, alleging that the Chinese government had provided unfair state subsidies to manufacturers in order to win a dominant position in the emerging industry. EU leaders .

A California woman was sentenced Monday to more than three years in prison in a long-running case over a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver babies who ...

David Sacks, Trump's crypto czar, said former President Biden's executive order on Artificial Intelligence has hamstrung American AI companies.

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek is sending American investors into a panic due to new, cheaper technology.

Some AI researchers hailed DeepSeek’s R1 as a breakthrough on the same level as DeepMind’s AlphaZero, a 2017 model that became superhuman at the board games Chess and Go by purely playing against ...

US stocks dropped sharply Monday morning after a surprise advancement from a Chinese artificial intelligence company, DeepSeek, threatened the aura of invincibility surrounding America’s technology industry.

Temperatures in some areas could fall to more than 10C below seasonal average. Plus, blizzard fears in Alaska
China was hit by snowstorms and a significant cold wave over the weekend, and the extreme conditions are expected to persist as the country approaches the new year on Wednesday.
Temperatures are forecast to drop to more than 10C (18F) below the seasonal average in some areas, with northern regions experiencing the most severe weather. Maximum temperatures in Shenyang are expected to plummet by more than 13C, while Yinchuan could tumble to -8C.