WASHINGTON — It could be much worse. When President Donald Trump launched his war against Iran in late February, energy analysts issued dire warnings that oil prices could more than double during a protracted conflict and urged investors and motorists to buckle up for a bumpy ride. The war grinds on and oil prices certainly
WASHINGTON — The first state visit by the leader of China in more than a decade takes place next week when President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington for high-stakes talks — and a little schmoozing — at the White House with President Donald Trump. When Xi’s plan lands at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington
A DeepSeek engineer who helped write a key component of the company’s latest model has given his readers a rare insight into work at a Chinese frontier lab — and how China’s workers are contending with AI’s risks. In a blog post published in Chinese on his public WeChat account titled “I Have No Choice
Under China’s Order 818, only high-level hospitals will be able to conduct investigator-initiated trials (IITs).Credit: Xinhua/Shutterstock In the past two months, reports that two children died after receiving gene-editing treatments in separate clinical trials in China have put a spotlight on the country’s fast-track trial pathway. Investigator-initiated trials (IITs) are a popular way that researchers
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Huawei Technologies, a leading Chinese tech company, faces a criminal racketeering trial in New York over charges that it stole technology, plotted to steal U.S. trade secrets and committed wire and bank fraud, among other crimes. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday. The indictment alleges that, besides
It’s that time of year again when humanoid robots of all shapes, sizes and specialties converge in Beijing to see just how far this technology has come, and how far it still has to go. Robots bested human world records in the standing high jump, 400-meter sprint and even the 100-meter sprint held by Usain
