Talk of luring engineers follows mainland start-up DeepSeek's emergence and ensuing shock waves felt by major American tech firms The US should welcome China's best scientific minds into its universities to compete with the mainland's success in AI,

While rival chatbots including ChatGPT collect vast quantities of user data, DeepSeek’s use of China-based servers are a key difference and a glaring privacy risk for Americans, experts told The

For many of America’s 170 million TikTok users, US President Donald Trump’s move to delay a legal ban of the popular social media platform was cause for celebration. But in China, where TikTok’s parent company is based,

Chinese startup DeepSeek has caused a massive stir in the AI world, with Donald Trump looking set for another TikTok-style headache amid concerns over DeepSeek's competitive edge and privacy policies.

RedNote, called Xiaohongshu in Chinese — which literally translates as Little Red Book, an apparent reference to former dictator Chairman Mao Zedong — is also required to follow the Chinese Communist Party’s regulations, but has yet to exert its moderation of English language content to meet these standards.

DeepSeek, which was rolled out on Jan. 15, rose to the top of the charts in Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store on Tuesday, and has been downloaded more than 2 million times.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday batted down the national security concerns surrounding TikTok, saying, “Is it that important for China to be spying on young people? On young kids watching crazy videos?

Trump warned he could hit China with 100% tariffs if it intervened and blocked a deal to allow 50% U.S. ownership of TikTok.

The founder of the app’s parent, Beijing-based ByteDance, met with Elon Musk last year.

President Donald Trump dismissed the threat of TikTok potentially spying on American children in an interview with Sean Hannity, saying Chinese-made phones and computers could be a bigger risk.

But as a new vision to keep the app online takes shape, experts say sweeping changes could be in store regardless of who owns it. Wendy Gratereaux, a marketing professor of practice at UTSA, says the changes reflect a lot of things from addressing security risks to reflecting Western values.

RedNote, known as Xiaohongshu in China, is owned by a Shanghai-based company and raises similar questions as TikTok.