A man from California has pleaded guilty in court for using unemployment compensation to run a fake business selling COVID-19 personal protective equipment. Two others have been charged in the same case.

A decade-old bird flu strain, H5N9, has surfaced in US poultry for the first time, detected in a California duck farm. Experts are concerned about its potential transmission to humans. While H5N1 is more common,

LOS ANGELES — A Rancho Cucamonga woman was sentenced Monday to more than 3 years in prison in a long-running case over a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver babies who automatically became American citizens.

China appears to be building a large laser-ignited fusion research centre in the southwestern city of Mianyang, experts at two analytical organisations say, a development that could aid nuclear weapons design and work exploring power generation.

In an email to its members, the Navy banned the use of DeepSeek AI “in any capacity” for fear of “potential security and ethical concerns associated with the model’s origin and

Eight suspects from throughout Southern California were arrested, and one remained a fugitive, in the alleged $200-million smuggling operation

Released last week, the Chinese company’s website claimed its new R1 artificial intelligence model sported “performance on par with OpenAI-o1.” OpenAI is the San Francisco-based company headed by Sam Altman. Its main product is ChatGPT.

US President Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organization (WHO) - decisions analysts said were likely to deal a heavy blow to global governance on climate and public health while leaving a leadership vacuum for China to fill.

In the run up to the election Trump, who described tariffs as "the most beautiful word in the dictionary," vowed hikes as high as 60 percent on Chinese goods, saying this would not only protect domestic industries but serve as critical tax revenue. Economists have pointed out such a move would raise costs for American consumers.

The rise of little-known Chinese tech start-up DeepSeek has exposed weaknesses in America's "small yard, high fence" strategy to contain China's technological progress, according to experts. The company's success has also signalled an intensifying competition between the US and China to win over the brightest AI minds,

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

A California woman has been sentenced to more than 3 years in prison for running a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver babies who automatically became American citizens.