Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek claims to have developed an AI assistant with performance comparable to leading Western models like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini but at a fraction of the cost.

Asked about sensitive topics, the bot would begin to answer, then stop and delete its own work. It refused to answer questions like: “Who is Xi Jinping?”

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Han Zheng, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s envoy at Trump’s Inauguration, discussed fentanyl, trade, and technology with Vance and Musk.

Gao Yifei is a trumpeter in a band led by the famous Chinese singer Zhao Lei. Many of her videos playing the trumpet have emerged on social media platforms.

Amanda DeWitt tells PEOPLE that after opening the 8-foot-long antique Louis XVI marble-top buffet she purchased from Facebook Marketplace, she discovered an entire collection of Hermès china.

State media hailed RedNote's success among American "TikTok refugees" as a repudiation of U.S. government "demonizing" of China's development.

Why has India, with its plethora of software engineers, not been able to build AI models the way China and the US have? An Indian AI expert answers.

Silicon Valley and Washington leaders said the app shows China can challenge the U.S. The Nasdaq lost 3 percent and chipmaker Nvidia shed $589 billion in market capitalization.

U.S. stocks recovered some ground Tuesday morning after getting hammered by fears over China's DeepSeek AI model built on a shoestring budget.

Young Americans' backlash against the TikTok ban – and their flight to a Chinese app – shows Washington is behind the times.

AAP FactCheck – An outbreak of a common virus in northern China has triggered false claims on social media that it's a new pathogen that could trigger a pandemic. Experts say human metapneumovirus (hMPV) was first described more than 20 years ago and is a common illness.