China recently shocked the West with its announcement of DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence network capable of competing with OpenAI, Meta and Google.

BOSTON, Massachusetts — After the release of DeepSeek-R1 on Jan. 20 triggered a massive drop in chipmaker Nvidia's share price and sharp declines in various other tech companies' valuations, some ...

On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, into orbit. This launch sparked panic in the US on account of the perceived capabilities gap between ...

Getty Images AI has understandably drawn the most attention; the only thing proliferating faster than China’s breakthroughs is the talk of the “Sputnik moment”. But this analogy offers a ...

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That was the Sputnik moment of October 1957, when the Soviet Union put American families on edge with a beep-beep in space that flew over their heads for 22 days. Silicon Valley has compared that ...