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US neighbors hit with 25% tariff and China with 10% as Trudeau pledges ‘forceful but reasonable’ response
has vowed to impose sweeping tariffs on , and China starting this weekend, potentially setting the stage for a damaging trade war between the US and three of its biggest trading partners. Trump also threatened to follow up with a further wave of tariffs against the European Union.
Goods exported from Canada and Mexico to the US will be hit with a 25% tariff, while products from China face a 10% levy, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told reporters on Friday.

A small firm in China, called DeepSeek, produced a knockoff artificial-intelligence model that appears to be as good as, if not better, than ChatGPT ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the US would be imposing 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and a 10% tariff on China. Leavitt corrected a report by Reuters that the US wouldn't put sanctions in place against its northern and southern neighbours until March, saying they would be in place by Saturday

Move to issue 03-mini model follows sudden arrival of much cheaper Chinese rival DeepSeek’s R1
OpenAI is releasing a new artificial intelligence model for free, after the company said it would speed up product releases in response to the emergence of a Chinese rival.
The startup behind ChatGPT is issuing the AI, called o3-mini, after the surprise success of . It will be available without charge – albeit with usage limits – to people who use the free version of OpenAI’s chatbot.

Trump’s White House juggled a devastating American Airline flight-Black Hawk helicopter crash, a Chinese AI threat and looming tariffs just this week alone, making for a busy start to his four-year ...

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.