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America has better technology. But will China adopt it more quickly?
ON THE SAME day as Donald Trump’s inauguration as president DeepSeek, a Chinese company, released a world-class large language model (LLM). It was a wake-up call, observed Mr Trump. Mark Warner, vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, says that America’s intelligence community (IC), a group of 18 agencies and organisations, was “caught off guard”.
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South African leftists dream of telling the West to get lost

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The world court joins the fight over climate change
Its ruling that burning fossil fuels can be “internationally wrongful” risks provoking a backlash
Rethinking the war on AIDS
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