One user wrote, “Literally zero US social media companies are banned in China.” This claim is false. Facebook and Twitter have been banned in China since 2009, according to Time. Instagram is blocked as well, per Vogue Business. Many social media users ...

DeepSeek’s AI assistant became the No. 1 downloaded free app on Apple’s iPhone store on Tuesday afternoon and its launch made Wall Street tech superstars' stocks tumble.

China AI startup DeepSeek just released its R-1 model that compares favorably with OpenAI's o1 reasoning model. DeepSeek claims to have trained R1 at a fraction of the cost of o1 and Meta's Llama 3.1.