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Trump’s FBI Pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock from Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, owns stocks valued between $1 million to $5 million in a company that controls Shein, a...

Chinese AI App DeepSeek Soars in Popularity, Startling Rivals

An AI assistant created by Chinese startup DeepSeek became the number one most-downloaded app in Apple’s US App Store over the weekend, sending shock waves through Silicon Valley and causing the price...

How Meta Tried to Lure TikTok Users to Instagram

It was an opportunity too good for Meta to ignore: On January 19, TikTok, one of its biggest social media rivals, was set to go dark across the United States when a...

TikTok Is Unavailable in the US—and Gone From the App Stores

For the first time in internet history, the United States government has officially banned a major global social media platform, joining the ranks of authoritarian regimes like Russia and China. On Saturday,...

Former ByteDance Intern Accused of Sabotage Among Winners of Prestigious AI Award

A former ByteDance intern who was allegedly dismissed for professional misconduct, including sabotaging colleagues’ work, was announced as a winner of one of the most prestigious annual awards for AI research this...

The US Just Made It Way Harder for China to Build Its Own AI Chips

The US Department of Commerce introduced a sweeping package of export controls on Monday designed to weaken China’s domestic semiconductor ecosystem and undermine the country’s ability to manufacture advanced chips locally. The...

The US Is Being Flooded by Chinese Vapes

In late March, a smoke shop in Dyersburg, Tennessee, announced the arrival of a new product in its store: a disposable nicotine vape with an LCD display that can be connected to...

Most US TikTok Creators Don’t Think a Ban Will Happen

A majority of US TikTok creators don’t believe the platform will be banned within a year, and most haven’t seen brands they work for shift their marketing budgets away from the app,...

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