The new withdrawal notice appeared on Feb. 13 in the U.S. Federal Register, which is bound by law requiring the secretary of defense—Pete Hegseth, in this instance—to identify and publish a list of Chinese military companies annually until Dec. 31, 2030, in accordance with the Fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act.

Just last week the Chinese firm Moonshot AI released its latest open-weight model, Kimi K2.5, which came close to top proprietary systems such as Anthropic’s Claude Opus on some early benchmarks. The difference: K2.5 is roughly one-seventh Opus’s price.

Social media users are “becoming Chinese” just in time for the Lunar New Year. But what’s behind the trend, and will it last?

As China prepares for Lunar New Year holidays starting on Sunday, rivals to DeepSeek are scrambling to release artificial-intelligence models a year after it burst onto the scene with its game-changing R1 and V3 models.

Think of the meme as an absurdist joke, a wellness goal or an ironic expression of protest — or all of the above. Your ethnicity is beside the point.

Suddenly, it’s cool to be Chinese on the internet

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Feb 12 (Reuters) - One year after Chinese startup DeepSeek rattled the global tech industry with the release of a low-cost artificial intelligence model, its domestic rivals are better prepared,

At its heart are Eileen Gu, a freestyle skier, and Alysa Liu, a figure-skater. They have a lot in common: both are young women of American-Chinese heritage who were born and raised in the US. And they are champions in their field.