By Andrea Shalal, David Shepardson and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials are looking at the national security implications of the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday,

I T SOUNDS ODD, but hints keep piling up that President Donald Trump is tempted by a big, beautiful deal with China’s Xi Jinping. That runs counter to campaign-trail vows to hit China with crippling tariffs.

If Americans want their freedom and quality of life to continue well into this century, the status quo with China will not suffice.

DeepSeek’s A.I. models show that China is making rapid gains in the field, despite American efforts to hinder it.

When Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek rocketed to the top of the AI race over the weekend, it upended not just a ruthless corporate competition for tech supremacy but a geopolitical one. America was supposed to be the world leader on AI; suddenly, China had a credible claim.

China raced ahead building renewable energy last year, installing more wind and solar power than ever before and continuing to leave all other countries in the dust.

Even with a new administration only a few days old, Washington's newest stars from China stole the spotlight on Friday when a pair of three-year-old giant pandas made their public debut at the National Zoo.

Eric Schmidt, former CEO and chairman of Google, is co-founder of Schmidt Sciences and chair of the nonpartisan think tank Special Competitive Studies Project. Dhaval Adjodah is co-founder and CEO of MakerMaker.AI.

DeepSeek is called ‘amazing and impressive’ despite working with less-advanced chips.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's trip to Central America, including Panama, is partially about countering China, a State Department spokesperson told Fox Business, as new President Donald Trump is pushing to "take back" the Panama Canal.