
All Articles link

- A new Chinese AI DeepSeek competes with GPT-4o
- A Chinese AI company DeepSeek has disrupted major tech companies’ stock prices like Nvidia and Meta with their own AI model, positioning itself as a strong competitor to OpenAI.

- ByteDance gets 75-day extension for TikTok sale after brief ban
- One morning on January 19th, about 170 million people in the US awoke to the message saying “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now,” when they tried to open one of the world’s most social media apps.

- Trump says U.S. relations with North Korea: “very big asset for everybody”
- President Trump on February 8th said the U.S. will have relations with North Korea, emphasizing his personal relationship with Kim Jung Un, saying ‘I get along with him, he gets along with me and that‘s a good thing, not a bad thing’, in a joint press conference.

- 1st death from bird flu reported in the U.S.
- The Louisiana Department of Health has reported the death of the first person in the United States to suffer a severe case of H5N1 bird flu.

- New york city sets to celebrate Lunar New Year parade in chinatown
- New york city sets to celebrate Lunar New Year parade in chinatown

- Nurse dies as Ebola returns to Uganda after 2023 outbreak
- A devastating resurgence of Ebola has struck Uganda, claiming the life of a nurse in Kampala, in what health officials confirm as the nation’s first death from the virus since the last outbreak concluded in 2023.

- President Donald Trump signs executive order for immigration crackdown
- In his first major policy action following the 2025 inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 20th that dramatically strengthens immigration enforcement across the United States.

- Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, and Chris Martin to illuminate the Grammy stage this year
- This Sunday, the Grammy Awards return with a live broadcast from Los Angeles, once again hosted by Trevor Noah, featuring special performances by today’s top artists such as Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, and Chris Martin.

- Plane crash near Washington D.C: Mid-Air collision claims lives of 67 individuals
- On the evening of January 29, 2025, a tragic mid-air collision occurred near Washington D.C., involving an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 and a U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.

- Apple will pay $95 million settlement to settle the Siri “listening” case
- Tech giant Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to resolve a class action lawsuit alleging that its devices were listening to individuals through the Siri function without their consent.