This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. China’s homegrown open-source artificial intelligence model DeepSeek topped app charts in the United States and Europe on Monday, beating out U.S.-based rival ChatGPT for the most popular free app on Apple’s App Store, in what some commentators saw as a potential…
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Five years ago, authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and surrounding areas in Hubei province imposed a travel ban on some 18 million people, just days after admitting that the newly emerging coronavirus was transmissible between people. The lockdown…
Comedian Ken Flores, a rising talent in the Los Angeles stand-up comedy scene, died on Tuesday, according to his manager, Cameron Silzle. His body was discovered at his home Tuesday afternoon around 2 p.m. No cause of death was immediately available. He was 28. His family shared the news on his Instagram account Wednesday. “It is with…
Actress Sigourney Weaver was rushed off the stage on Monday as two climate activists staged a protest in the middle of a performance of “The Tempest” at the Theatre Royal in London’s Covent Garden. The Daily Mail reported that London’s Metropolitan Police Department confirmed that a 60-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman were arrested Monday on…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed into law a measure designed to slap stricter penalties on undocumented immigrants who commit crimes on U.S. soil, giving him a platform to push his top issue during the first bill signing of his whirlwind second term. Speaking at the bill signing ceremony in the White House’s ornate East Room, Trump hailed the Laken Riley Act…
Dwyane Wade, a retired National Basketball Association (NBA) star, recently announced that he had 40% of one of his kidneys removed after doctors discovered a tumor that was later determined to be cancerous. During a podcast episode of “The Why with Dwyane Wade” on Thursday, the 43-year-old NBA star revealed that he had surgery in…
