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China’s AI industry has almost caught up with America’s
Despite the American government’s efforts to hold back China’s AI industry, two Chinese firms had reduced their American counterparts’ technological lead to a matter of weeks. It is not just with reasoning models that Chinese firms are in the vanguard: in December DeepSeek published a new large language model ( LLM ),
U.S.-China AI Cold War Is Heating Up—Can OpenAI’s Stargate End It?
Can the $500B Stargate Project secure U.S. AI dominance? This is a 21st-century moonshot the U.S. cannot afford to miss.
Looming TikTok ban poses financial nightmare for Google, Apple — and other American tech firms with ties to China’s ByteDance
A looming ban on TikTok set to take effect on Sunday presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple and Google.
China’s RedNote netizens warn each other about sharing street views with US TikTok users
Users told that American requests for images of sensitive areas should be ignored over national security concerns.
Google releases Android 16’s first public beta: Here’s how to download it
Google today officially released Android 16 Beta 1 for Pixel smartphones, two months after the developer preview was released in November. This means that if you have a Pixel phone ranging from the Pixel 6 to the Pixel 9 series (and even the Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet!
China’s economy defies external biases with tangible gains
Technicians work on export orders on an intelligent production line in a company in Suqian, East China’s Jiangsu Province. Photo: VCG. Editor's Note: In 2024, China's economy ha
Google Pixel 11a in the works! Codename revealed
Google might already be working on the Pixel 11a model despite the Pixel 9a and Pixel 10a still being a while away from release. The codename for this upcoming budget Pixel phone has just been revealed.
Report: ByteDance sets aside about $20B for AI spending this year
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance Ltd. has set aside 150 billion yuan ($20.64 billion) for its capital expenditure this year, and the bulk of that money will be spent on boosting its artificial intelligence capabilities, Reuters reported today.
Trump's geographic renaming plans leave mapmakers pondering what to do next
Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
TikTok’s Possible Buyers, From Elon Musk to MrBeast
The app, which was set to be banned, now has a bit more time to find a home and address national security issues
How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With Silicon Valley Giants
The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.
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TikTok Ban is Still ‘Fair Game,’ Says Expert on Chinese Business and Government
UC San Diego Today spoke with professor Victor Shih, director of the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy’s 21st Century China Center, to learn more about why TikTok has faced so much scrutiny in the U.S., as well as what implications a ban could have for relations between the two countries.