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DJI sues US over import ban on new drone models

Chinese dronemaker DJI said it has filed a suit challenging the Federal Communications Commission decision to bar imports of all of its new models and critical components, reports Reuters. The ban also includes products from Autel, another China-based drone maker. DJI, the world’s largest dronemaker, said in a statement it had challenged the FCC decision in […]

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US official says DeepSeek trained AI on Nvidia’s best chip

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s latest AI model, set to be released as soon as next week, was trained on Nvidia’s most advanced AI chip, the Blackwell, reports Reuters, citing a senior Trump administration official. Were this to be the case, it could represent a violation of US export controls. The official said the US believed DeepSeek […]

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ByteDance’s Doubao AI app sees 1.9BN interactions during New Year Gala

ByteDance’s conversational AI app Doubao seized a prime marketing position during China’s Spring Festival Gala, reports Caixin. The app logged 1.9 billion interactions as the company leveraged the nation’s most-watched television broadcast to accelerate mass adoption. Although ByteDance’s cloud-computing arm, Volcano Engine, served as the official AI cloud partner for the 2026 gala, the consumer-facing Doubao […]

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Staying ahead in the race

A senior official in the White House was cited in a Reuters exclusive as saying that China’s DeepSeek has trained AI models on Nvidia’s Blackwell chips—the company’s most advanced. If this were true, Reuters said, it would constitute a violation of current US export controls. It gave no details about how the chips were allegedly […]

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Trump pauses China tech bans ahead of Beijing trip

The Trump administration has put a pause on a number of key security measures aimed at Chinese tech ahead of an April meeting between the two countries’ presidents, reports Reuters, citing unnamed sources. The measures include a ban on China Telecom’s US operations and restrictions on sales of Chinese equipment for US data centers, the sources said. The […]