The lifting of the de minimis loophole will hurt the Chinese and US e-commerce firms but won't kill them, an analyst said

"These moves are warnings that China intends to harm US interests if need be, but still give China the option to back down," one analyst said

Support for an Alaska pipeline is one of a few energy deals Tokyo is considering for when PM Shigera Ishiba meets with Donald Trump, to ease trade friction concerns

Carmakers of both EVs and Japanese firms like Toyota have had to offer big discounts as they are locked in a bruising price war, while the economy is sluggish

Social media accounts run by Chinese state media, plus embassies highlighted DeepSeek's 'breakthrough' prior to the stock crash on Monday and push Beijing's narrative on surpassing the US in critical areas of competition, report says

The global energy transition needs to average $5.6 trillion a year from 2025 to 2030 to meet net zero emissions by 2050; current investment levels are only 37% of what's required despite topping $2 trillion

"Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms ... almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B," Alibaba's cloud unit claimed on Wednesday

US executives say limiting the 'distillation' process from open-source models, in which one AI system learns from another, may be difficult to stop

The investment will be made by the Singapore unit of TikTok's parent Bytedance and the data centre will support companies affiliated with the popular short-video site

PM says: “We will urgently look at whether we need to make more cooperative plans and future assistance programmes for the industrial sector."

Microsoft's security researchers observed that "individuals they believed to be connected to DeepSeek" were involved in an unauthorized data transfer several months ago

Meta has reportedly established four "war rooms" with engineers to assess the AI model developed by Chinese startup DeepSeek, insiders have alleged