Amid the most open — and sometimes unlikely — Oscar race in several years, controversial musical Emilia Pérez emerged as frontrunner after the 2025 Academy Award nominations were announced today.

DeepSeek is not a one-off. Since the middle of last year, Chinese tech companies such as Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, Moonshot and 01.ai have been steadily narrowing the gap with US peers, matching ...