The global AI race: Is China catching up to the US?
The release of DeepSeek’s new model has shaken assumptions about who has the upper hand in developing the technology
The release of DeepSeek’s new model has shaken assumptions about who has the upper hand in developing the technology
Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock
Beijing hopes US sectors will put pressure on Washington to negotiate rather than escalating a trade war
US president believes his country’s trade agreement with the EU is an ‘atrocity’
Beijing also announces an investigation into Google in wake of Trump tariffs
Mexico president Claudia Sheinbaum says levies delayed in X post
Companies found to have broken the law can be hit by fines by national regulators in individual EU member states
US president sparks fears of trade war with sweeping tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
The Canadian response – the imposition of 25 per cent tariffs on the $30 billion on imports originating in the US, is effective immediately
The BBC World Service is viewed as a critical British asset in the global information war
US president has warned he will impose levies on European Union
Ukraine war, growing geopolitical tensions, rise of artificial intelligence and worsening climate crisis cited as factors pushing us towards global catastrophe
Ireland will be exposed if Donald Trump introduces blanket tariffs on imports from the EU
Silicon Valley group says there are signs rollout of AI features will boost handset demand
Number of tigers has almost tripled to 355 since 2009 and poses a threat to humans
Ciara O’Brien road tests the new Chinese AI technology that wiped billions off the value of Big Tech companies on Monday
Chinese startup sparks a stock selloff and its free AI assistant overtakes OpenAI’s ChatGPT in Apple’s App Store
When Chenchen He moved to Ireland from Fujian Province in southeast China in 2009, it was her first time to leave the country
Britain’s prime minister balances wooing the US president a his government also covets closer trade ties with China
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Pulling out of Paris Agreement was predictable theatre, but resulting temperature and emission rises will push Earth to dangerous tipping points
It’s time for decluttering, which means there are plenty of gems to be found in auctions around the country
Influential writers look at how the Chinese leader is moulding his country - and the West - to fit his vision
US president tells Mette Frederiksen he is determined to take over Arctic island
US president heading to hurricane-battered western North Carolina and wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles on Friday in first trip of second term
Europe unlikely to ever stomach level of economic subservience needed to keep Trump happy
Search giant says complaint to Federal Trade Commission based on flawed understanding of how its digital advertising technology works
China has vowed further monetary easing and stronger public spending this year, as the economy braces for US presidency
New Innovator; Hannah Joyce, Flexera
UK chancellor jets in from China amid financial controversy
Worldview: With his economic and policy goals often irreconcilable, how these economic and international contradictions play out will determine whether the US president-elect can claim success
The Chinese leader is redoubling his efforts to stamp out graft, but many suspect he has a dark motive
Clifford avoids hagiography in this rags-to-riches-to-prison-scrubs biography of the dissident billionaire
Expansion to continue at slower pace than before the Covid pandemic
More than 47,000 people moved to shelters but authorities have yet to estimate number of missing
Europe’s largest carmaker hurt by greater competition from rivals in China
Epicentre of magnitude 6.8 quake was some 80km north of world’s highest mountain with Nepal, Bhutan and India affected
Medical experts say that despite surface similarities with Covid-19 pandemic the situation is very different
CSI 300 down 4.2% this year and currency slides to 15-month low as Donald Trump’s return weighs on markets
Investors have no idea what Donald Trump returning as US president will actually do
A crowd of ‘introverts’ gathered for a New Year countdown party and discussed their hopes for 2025
Lack of even a basic list raises questions about how the scheme was monitored
Chinese embassy denies responsibility for breach earlier this month in which unclassified files were accessed
Trump’s re-election fuels global turmoil in which Putin is the biggest of many autocrats blending kleptocracy and dictatorship. US institutions and international treaties are fading, and Ukraine and Palestine have been betrayed
Looking at the technology through a different cultural lens casts its threat and promise in a new light
Workers were hired in China by another firm and brought to Brazil irregularly, authorities say
John Bolton describes Trump’s decision-making as driven by personal relationships and ‘neuron flashes’, rather than a deep understanding of national interests
Policymakers in Beijing appear to have been holding back much of their firepower so that they can blunt the impact of tariffs by pumping money into the domestic economy
Xinjiang authorities claim ‘anti-China forces in the international community’ are ignoring region’s efforts to protect human rights
Geopolitics is a tough game but by getting Papua New Guinea on side, Canberra has shown the NRL is up to the task
Border-dispute talks could reshape political alliances in Asia
Tengbo Yang developed business links to prince and access to a network of senior British political and business figures
Anchored down by a spell with his family, my friend longs for a return to Shanghai
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices