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The little-known Chinese firm's reportedly cheap yet powerful AI model surprised Silicon Valley
China's DeepSeek AI under 'large-scale malicious attacks'
BEIJING — Chinese AI firm DeepSeek says it is facing "large-scale malicious attacks", which are affecting its services.Chinese state media is citing cyber security experts who say the attacks are originating from US-based IP addresses, which the BBC is unable to verify.This comes hours after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the US National Security Council (NSC) is "looking into" DeepSeek.The little-known Chinese firm's reportedly cheap yet powerful AI model surprised Silicon Valley, which has splurged billions on AI infrastructure – just last week Trump announced an AI plan worth half a trillion dollars involving top US firms."Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek's services, registration may be busy," a banner on...
January 29, 2025

China's DeepSeek AI under 'large-scale malicious attacks'

A screengrab of a CCTV broadcast shows Liang Wenfeng (R), who founded DeepSeek, speaking during a symposium in Beijing on January 20, 2025
China celebrates DeepSeek’s breakout AI success as tech race heats up
HONG KONG — People across China are hailing the success of homegrown tech startup DeepSeek and its founder, after the company’s newest artificial intelligence model sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and Wall Street.“DeepSeek overturns the US stocks overnight” one trending hashtag with tens of millions of views proclaimed on Chinese social media platform Weibo. “DeepSeek makes Meta panic,” said another, in reference to the US tech giant that’s invested heavily in developing its own AI models.More than a dozen hashtags related to the cutting-edge technology were trending on Weibo early this week as DeepSeek surged to the top of international app store charts, surpassing American company OpenAI’s ChatGPT on Monday.DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng was also hailed as a tech...
January 29, 2025

China celebrates DeepSeek’s breakout AI success as tech race heats up

Since taking office on 20 January, President Trump has announced a number of immigration-related executive orders
Trump says India 'will do what's right' on illegal immigration
KOCHI — US President Donald Trump has said India "will do what's right" on the deportation of illegal migrants following a phone call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The leaders spoke on Monday, their first conversation since Trump's inauguration last week.They discussed immigration, security issues and trade in what the White House described as a "productive call".Trump told reporters after the call that Modi was likely to visit the United States "sometime in February".Since taking office on 20 January, Trump has announced a number of immigration-related executive orders, paving the way for a widespread effort to crack down on undocumented migrants in the US.According to the Pew Research Center, there are an estimated 725,000 undocumented Indian...
January 28, 2025

Trump says India 'will do what's right' on illegal immigration

Fuji TV's president Koichi Minato (left) and chairman Shuji Kano (right) bowed during the press conference
Top executives of Japanese TV network resign over sex scandal
TOKYO — The chairman and president of Fuji TV, one of Japan's biggest networks, have resigned in the wake of a sexual misconduct allegation against a famous TV host.Dozens of companies have pulled their advertisements from the network, which was criticized for trying to cover up the scandal.Masahiro Nakai was accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a 2023 party held by Fuji TV staff. He announced his retirement from show business last week.The Japanese government has called on Fuji TV to regain trust from viewers and sponsors.In a press conference on Monday, Fuji TV chairman Shuji Kano and president Koichi Minato bowed as they announced their resignations.They apologized to the viewers as well as stakeholders for the trouble and anxiety caused in a scandal that has rocked...
January 27, 2025

Top executives of Japanese TV network resign over sex scandal

Feathers and blood stains belonging to the baikal teal were found on both engines of the crashed Jeju Air plane
Bird feathers found in engines of crashed Jeju Air jet
SEOUL — Investigators say they have found evidence of a bird strike on a passenger plane that crashed in South Korea in December and killed 179 people.The feathers and blood stains on both engines of the Jeju Air plane were from the Baikal teal, a type of migratory duck that files in large flocks, according to a preliminary investigation report published on Monday.The inquiry into the crash - the deadliest on South Korean soil - will now focus on the role of the bird strike and a concrete structure at the end of the runway, which the plane crashed into.The engines of the Boeing 737-800 will be torn down and the concrete structure will be examined further, the report said.The Jeju Air plane took off from Bangkok in the morning of 29 December and was flying to Muan International Airport in...
January 27, 2025

Bird feathers found in engines of crashed Jeju Air jet

Kakoli Das and her daughter Isha, who tragically lost their son and brother when he drowned while going to a neighbor
Three children drown every day in India's wetlands, but mothers are fighting back
NEW DELHI — Mangala Pradhan will never forget the morning she lost her one-year-old son.It was 16 years ago, in the unforgiving Sundarbans — a vast, harsh delta of 100 islands in India's West Bengal state. Her son Ajit, just beginning to walk, was full of life: frisky, restless, and curious about the world.That morning, like so many others, the family was busy with their daily chores. Mangala had fed Ajit breakfast and taken him to the kitchen as she cooked. Her husband was out buying vegetables, and her ailing mother-in-law rested in another room.But little Ajit, always eager to explore, slipped away unnoticed. Mangala shouted for her mother-in-law to watch him, but there was no reply. Minutes later, when she realized how quiet it had become, panic set in."Where is my boy?...
January 27, 2025

Three children drown every day in India's wetlands, but mothers are fighting back

South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives for his impeachment trial
Impeached South Korean president charged with insurrection
SEOUL — South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been charged with insurrection after he attempted to declare martial law in December.His ill-fated attempt to impose military rule plunged the country into an unprecedented political crisis and he became the first sitting president in South Korean history to be charged with a crime.The indictment comes after a court in Seoul rejected a request to extend Yoon's detention on Saturday, which meant prosecutors had to make a decision on whether to charge or release him before Monday."The punishment of the ringleader of insurrection now begins finally," Han Min-soo, a spokesman from the main opposition Democratic Party told a press conference.Yoon's legal team criticised the indictment and pledged to expose any...
January 27, 2025

Impeached South Korean president charged with insurrection

A Chinese court said that Zhou carried out the attack due to his overwhelming debt
China sentences man to death over attack on Japanese school bus
BEIJING — A Chinese man who attacked a Japanese mother and child with a knife and killed a Chinese woman who tried to protect them has been sentenced to death, according to the Japanese government.A Chinese court said that Zhou Jiasheng, 52, had carried out the attack on 24 June after he lost the will to live, following the loss of his job and subsequent debts.The attack had taken place outside a Japanese school in the Chinese province of Suzhou — and was one of three attacks on foreigners in China last year.It comes as Chinese authorities have carried out several high-profile executions in recent days.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters at a press conference that the court ruled that the attack was an "intentional murder" and the penalty was given due to...
January 24, 2025

China sentences man to death over attack on Japanese school bus

Many Afghan refugees now feel hopeless after Trump's immigration orders (file photo)
Afghan refugees feel 'betrayed' by Trump order blocking move to US
ISLAMABAD — "It's like the United States doesn't actually understand what I did for this country, it's a betrayal," Abdullah tells the BBC.He fled Afghanistan with his parents amid the US withdrawal in August 2021 and is now a paratrooper for the US military. He worries he can't help his sister and her husband escape too, because of President Donald Trump's executive order suspending a resettlement program.The order cancels all flights and suspends applications for Afghan refugees, without any exemption for families of active servicemembers.Trump argues the decision addresses "record levels of migration" that threaten "the availability of resources for Americans".But Abdullah and several other Afghan refugees have told the BBC they feel...
January 24, 2025

Afghan refugees feel 'betrayed' by Trump order blocking move to US

Protests have broken out after a dozen containers containing toxic waste arrived for disposal at a local plant in Pithampur
Toxic waste from world's deadliest gas leak fuels protests in India
BHOPAL — Vegetable vendor Shivnarayan Dasana had never seen so many policemen descend on his village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.The 60-year-old lives in Tarapur in the industrial town of Pithampur, known for its automobile and pharmaceutical factories. The town has been tense since containers holding 337 tons of toxic waste from the site of one of the world's worst industrial disasters arrived for disposal three weeks ago.The waste, transported from the now-defunct Union Carbide factory in the city of Bhopal — site of the 1984 gas tragedy that killed thousands — has sparked fears among locals.They worry that disposing of it near their homes could be harmful and even cause an environmental disaster.Protests erupted on 3 January, a day after the waste arrived in...
January 23, 2025

Toxic waste from world's deadliest gas leak fuels protests in India

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