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Germany tells Apple, Google to block DeepSeek as the Chinese AI app faces rising pressure in Europe

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2026-02-20 04:09:21

In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen and in the background, the flag of the European Union. One of Germany's data protection watchdogs on Friday said DeepSeek's app illegally sends user data to China and asked Google and Apple to consider blocking the artificial intelligence service. Berlin's data protection commissioner Meike Kamp said in a statement that DeepSeek's transfer of German user data to China is "unlawful." There is not a readily a

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Blacklisted by the U.S. and backed by Beijing, this Chinese AI startup has caught OpenAI's attention

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-02-23 00:34:18

OpenAI is putting a spotlight on an under-the-radar artificial intelligence startup that it believes is on the "front line" of China's race to lead the world in AI — and its not DeepSeek. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company wrote that Beijing-backed Zhipu AI has made "notable progress" in the AI race, as global competition ramps up. Zhipu AI, founded in 2019, has been referred by domestic media as one of China's "AI tigers" — a class of large language model unicorns seen as key to Beijing

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Apple’s China comeback playbook now includes government-backed discounts

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-26 08:28:33

After a rocky stretch, Apple managed to bounce back last month with a 15% jump in iPhone sales, driven largely by renewed demand in the U.S. and China. In China, especially, Apple had been losing ground to local brands benefiting from government subsidies on lower-cost phones. Now, it appears Apple is joining the subsidy program itself. When in China… take the subsidy As reported by South China Morning Post (via MacRumors), shoppers in Shanghai and Beijing can now get up to ¥2,000 (about US$2

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Chinese Military Shows Off Fly-Sized Drones for Covert Ops

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-26 17:39:36

When it comes to robotics, nobody's doing it quite like China. Despite not truly industrializing until the 1950s — some 75 years after the United States — the nation has surged to the global forefront of robotics development. Between 2022 and 2023, China installed over half of all global robotics installed throughout the globe, scoring the second-highest annual robot deployment ever recorded — a close runner up to its own previous record, which it set between 2021 and 2022. Since then, the sec

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How war-torn Myanmar plays a critical role in China's rare earth dominance

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-02-27 16:51:48

Illustration of the national flag of the People's Republic of China and a mining site. Craig Hastings | Moment | Getty Images Beijing has been stepping up controls on rare earth exports, triggering global shortages and exposing industries' dependence on Chinese supply chains. However, over recent years, China itself has become reliant on rare earth supplies from an unexpected source: the relatively small and war-torn economy of Myanmar. While China is the world's top producer of rare earths, it

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Canada says telcos were breached in China-linked espionage hacks

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2026-03-01 12:35:15

In Brief The Canadian government and the FBI say they are aware of malicious activity targeting telecommunication companies across Canada, attributing the intrusions to the China-backed hacking group Salt Typhoon. In a joint advisory out late Friday, the feds said at least one unnamed Canadian telco was hacked in mid-February this year, in which hackers manipulated three Cisco-made routers to allow stealthy traffic collection from its network. The feds say that separate investigations suggest

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Chip stocks fall on report U.S. could terminate waivers for Taiwan Semi and others

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-03-04 08:26:22

A motorcycle is seen near a building of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on April 16, 2025. Semiconductor stocks declined Friday following a report that the U.S. is weighing measures that would terminate waivers allowing some chipmakers to send American technology to China. Commerce Department official Jeffrey Kessler told Samsung Electronics , SK Hynix and Taiw

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Tesla inks first deal to build China's largest grid-scale battery power plant

cnbc.com Ganesh Rao 2026-03-04 22:48:19

Tesla has inked its first deal to build a grid-scale battery power plant in China amid a strained trading relationship between Beijing and Washington. The U.S. company posted on the Chinese social media service Weibo that the project would be the largest of its kind in China when completed. Utility-scale battery energy storage systems help electricity grids keep supply and demand in balance. They are increasingly needed to bridge the supply-demand mismatch caused by intermittent energy sources

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Trump suggests he needs China to sign off on TikTok sale, delays deal again

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-10 00:28:59

The White House confirmed that Donald Trump has extended the deadline for a TikTok sale for a third time, Reuters reported Wednesday. Now, China-based ByteDance has 90 days to divest its US assets or potentially be forced to shut down US operations. Trump's announcement came one day before the June 19 deadline he established through his last extension. That extension was necessary after Vice President JD Vance failed to make a "high-level" deal expected in April, which Politico branded a "make

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U.S. and China drive iPhone rebound for April and May

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-03-10 23:38:24

After a rocky start to the year, the iPhone business is showing signs recovery, especially in China, where Apple had recently been overtaken by local brands riding on an aggressive government-backed subsidy plan. Here’s the latest data. The new report from Counterpoint Research (via MacRumors) says iPhone sales grew 15% year-over-year across April and May, marking Apple’s strongest performance for this time of year since the pandemic. It’s a sharp rebound driven by renewed demand in both the U

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Apple Intelligence could be about to launch in China despite US government fears

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-03-12 19:05:35

There are strong indications that Apple Intelligence could be about to launch in China, following its deal with Alibaba to use its Qwen models. A local report says that Alibaba has updated its ChatGPT competitor Qwen3, which has been optimized for the AI framework used on Apple devices … Apple can’t use ChatGPT in China Apple partnered with OpenAI for the launch of Apple Intelligence, with fallback to ChatGPT for anything Apple’s own AI systems can’t handle. However, ChatGPT is banned in Chi

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Trump Touts China Trade Deal: Tariffs Back to Square One, Still Historically High

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-15 10:30:00

Greg Baker/Getty Images President Donald Trump last week took to Truth Social to tout a new tentative trade agreement with China, albeit one that only really takes things back to square one and leaves the tariff rate against Beijing at historically high levels. "WE ARE GETTING A TOTAL OF 55% TARIFFS, CHINA IS GETTING 10%," Trump's post to Truth Social read, with a later post adding, "President Xi [Jinping] and I are going to work closely together to open up China to American Trade. This would

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Taiwan places export controls on Huawei and SMIC

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-03-15 06:14:24

In Brief Chinese companies Huawei and SMIC may have a difficult time accessing resources needed to build AI chips, due to Taiwanese export controls. Bloomberg reports that Taiwan’s International Trade Administration placed the two companies and their subsidiaries on an updated list of entities designated as strategic high-tech commodities. That means Taiwanese businesses will need government approval before they can ship anything to either company. As a result, Huawei and SMIC will lose acces

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Chinese AI Companies Are Using an Absurd Loophole to Get Around US Chip Restrictions

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-15 05:15:35

In case you haven't heard, the United States is embroiled in a life-and-death arms race. Only it's not conventional weapons or even world-ending ICBMs we're rushing to build, and it's definitely not a matter of life and death. The purported arms race, of course, is the rush to build artificial intelligence, and the US' adversary — for reasons even the Pentagon's most committed war hawks struggle to articulate — is China. In an effort to delay China's flourishing tech sector, Washington has gone

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Nvidia to exclude China from its revenue and profit forecasts

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-03-16 16:34:03

In Brief Nvidia doesn’t think the U.S. will backpedal its chip export restrictions to China anytime soon. The chipmaker is so convinced of that fact that it’s not going to include the Chinese market in its revenue and profit forecasts, CEO Jensen Huang told CNN on Thursday. Huang said he’s not counting on the Trump administration reversing its chip export controls and that it would be a nice “bonus” if they did. The Trump administration introduced licensing requirements for Nvidia’s H20 chip

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Huawei 'has got China covered' if the U.S. doesn't participate, Nvidia CEO tells CNBC

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal April Roach 2026-03-19 19:46:30

If the U.S. continues to impose AI semiconductor restrictions on China, then chipmaker Huawei will take advantage of its position in the world's second-largest economy, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC Thursday. "Our technology is a generation ahead of theirs," Huang told CNBC at the sidelines of the Viva Technology conference in Paris. However, he warned that: "If the United States doesn't want to partake, participate in China, Huawei has got China covered, and Huawei has got everybody else co

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Small retailers on 'vacation from hell' as they seek clarity on Trump's China tariffs

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-03-19 10:11:00

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A UPS seasonal worker delivers packages on Cyber Monday in New York on Nov. 27, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images When Matt Kubancik, a small business owner in Louisville, Kentucky, cast his ballot for Donald Trump in November, he was hoping that the Republican nominee's return to the White House would provide a spark to the economy and lead to reduced prices for gas and groceries. Instead, the first half-year

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AI chatbots restricted in China during exam season to prevent cheating

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2026-03-18 13:52:00

In brief: The problem of students using AI to cheat on their exams has become a major headache for schools around the world. But China has come up with a solution that could prove effective: AI companies are suspending some of their chatbots' features during exam seasons. Makers of some of China's most popular AI apps, including Alibaba's Qwen and ByteDance's Doubao, have stopped the tools' picture-recognition features from responding whenever they are used to identify and answer questions rela

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Tech Life

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-03-18 19:32:00

Tech Life China's booming EV industry In China, electric cars accounted for almost half of all car sales last year.

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China's electric cars are becoming slicker and cheaper - but is there a deeper cost?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-03-17 23:04:10

China's electric cars are becoming slicker and cheaper - but is there a deeper cost? 2 days ago Share Save Theo Leggett International Business Correspondent Share Save BBC Listen to Theo read this article In China, they call it the Seagull, and it has looks to match. It is sleek and angular, with bright, downward-slanting headlights that have more than a hint of mischievous eyes about them. It is, of course, a car. A very small one, designed as a cheap city runabout – but it could have huge s

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Trade war truce between US and China is back on

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-19 14:18:48

Donald Trump has said the US and China’s deal to restore their trade war truce is “done” after two days of marathon negotiations in London. In a post on his Truth Social network on Wednesday the US president hailed a breakthrough reached in bilateral talks in London late the night before. The deal revived a trade truce agreed in Geneva last month that subsequently faltered because of differences over Chinese rare earth exports and US export controls. “OUR DEAL WITH CHINA IS DONE, SUBJECT TO F

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Why Silicon Valley Needs Immigration

wired.com Lauren Goode 2026-03-17 17:12:04

Katie Drummond: And particularly at a moment where, as you said, we're in this Cold War with China, we're in this AI arms race. You hear it from the administration, you read about it in WIRED, you hear about it from Sam Altman, other leaders of the AI industry, this like, “We must beat China. We must beat China.” And then stuff like this happens and you feel like, “Let's just hand it to them. Let's just give it to them.” Because we are basically doing that by disincentivizing not only Chinese st

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OnePlus Watch 3s with the ‘Meda’ typo are limited editions, OnePlus jokes

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-13 12:15:31

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Early buyers of the OnePlus Watch 3 have noticed there’s a typo on the backplate. The standard “Made in China” engraving reads “Meda in China.” OnePlus has now apologized for the typo and says users can send their smartwatch back, no questions asked. The OnePlus Watch 3 just launched this week, but it didn’t take long for early buyers to notice something off about the smartwatch. OnePlus is now apologizing for the error. If you’re unaware of the quirky i

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What does Jack Ma's return to the spotlight mean?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-12 22:42:26

What does Jack Ma's return to the spotlight mean? 18 hours ago João da Silva Business reporter CCTV A meeting between Chinese president Xi Jinping and some of the country's foremost business leaders this week has fuelled excitement and speculation, after Alibaba founder Jack Ma was pictured at the event. The charismatic and colourful Mr Ma, who was one of China's most prominent businessmen, had withdrawn from public life after criticising China's financial sector in 2020. His reappearance at

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Beijing embraces DeepSeek to lead AI adoption as it looks for new growth drivers

cnbc.com Anniek Bao 2025-11-13 12:10:33

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek apps is seen on a phone in front of a flag of China on January 28, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. DeepSeek's sudden splash in the large language model space has given China a powerful tool to catalyze artificial-intelligence adoption in the country and boost economic growth. While Goldman Sachs pegs a 20-basis-point to 30-basis-point boost to China's GDP over the long term — by 2030 — it expects the country's economy to start r

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An episode of The Simpsons? Fake speakers found in Chinese Volvos.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-13 12:35:50

Do you remember The Simpsons episode "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield"? It first aired in February 1996, and it's the one where Homer and Bart go to Appliance Zone and are confronted with "genuine" Panaphonics, Sorny, and Magnetbox TVs. Well, it seems a similar brand name game has been going on at a Volvo dealership in China. News started filtering out of China last week about an owner of a Volvo S60 sedan who realized the speakers in his car were not from Bowers and Wilkins, as t

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The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry?

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-11-13 11:30:00

TP-Link is one of the most popular router manufacturers in the US, but the company is facing a potential ban due to security concerns about its links to China. A December report from The Wall Street Journal revealed that the US Commerce, Defense, and Justice Departments are investigating TP-Link, though no evidence of deliberate wrongdoing has yet emerged. “We are a US company,” Jeff Barney, president of TP-Link told WIRED, “We have no affiliation with TP-Link Tech, which focuses on mainland Ch

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What does Jack Ma's return to the spotlight in China mean?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-13 04:42:26

What does Jack Ma's return to the spotlight in China mean? 5 hours ago João da Silva Business reporter CCTV A meeting between Chinese president Xi Jinping and some of the country's foremost business leaders this week has fuelled excitement and speculation, after Alibaba founder Jack Ma was pictured at the event. The charismatic and colourful Mr Ma, who was one of China's most prominent businessmen, had withdrawn from public life after criticising China's financial sector in 2020. His reappear

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This powerful "spy camera" can capture facial details from over 60 miles away

techspot.com Zo Ahmed 2025-11-13 12:27:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Forward-looking: Researchers in China have developed an exceptionally powerful synthetic aperture lidar system that could enable the nation to scrutinize foreign assets – particularly military spy satellites – with unprecedented precision. They have already demonstrated its ability to capture highly detailed images from more than 60 miles away. Worse still, if this technology were deployed in low E

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Latest Tech News

Germany tells Apple, Google to block DeepSeek as the Chinese AI app faces rising pressure in Europe

Blacklisted by the U.S. and backed by Beijing, this Chinese AI startup has caught OpenAI's attention

Apple’s China comeback playbook now includes government-backed discounts

Chinese Military Shows Off Fly-Sized Drones for Covert Ops

How war-torn Myanmar plays a critical role in China's rare earth dominance

Canada says telcos were breached in China-linked espionage hacks

Chip stocks fall on report U.S. could terminate waivers for Taiwan Semi and others

Tesla inks first deal to build China's largest grid-scale battery power plant

Trump suggests he needs China to sign off on TikTok sale, delays deal again

U.S. and China drive iPhone rebound for April and May

Apple Intelligence could be about to launch in China despite US government fears

Trump Touts China Trade Deal: Tariffs Back to Square One, Still Historically High

Taiwan places export controls on Huawei and SMIC

Chinese AI Companies Are Using an Absurd Loophole to Get Around US Chip Restrictions

Nvidia to exclude China from its revenue and profit forecasts

Huawei 'has got China covered' if the U.S. doesn't participate, Nvidia CEO tells CNBC

Small retailers on 'vacation from hell' as they seek clarity on Trump's China tariffs

AI chatbots restricted in China during exam season to prevent cheating

Tech Life

China's electric cars are becoming slicker and cheaper - but is there a deeper cost?

Trade war truce between US and China is back on

Why Silicon Valley Needs Immigration

OnePlus Watch 3s with the ‘Meda’ typo are limited editions, OnePlus jokes

What does Jack Ma's return to the spotlight mean?

Beijing embraces DeepSeek to lead AI adoption as it looks for new growth drivers

An episode of The Simpsons? Fake speakers found in Chinese Volvos.

The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry?

What does Jack Ma's return to the spotlight in China mean?

This powerful "spy camera" can capture facial details from over 60 miles away

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