U.S. Export Controls Fail to Restrain Chinese AI Advancements

While the world was focused on the actions of the Trump administration in its first week, a little-known Chinese startup startled the tech world last week with the release of an open source artificial intelligence tool that for a fraction of cost and resources of American competitors such as ChatGPT matches and in some cases outperforms its American rivals. The company, DeepSeek, has gone even further, making its eponymous tool available for download for free. Only those seeking to use the company's application programming interface?something which…