Instagram is banned in countries like China, North Korea, Iran, and Afghanistan due to government censorship, national security concerns, and content regulations. Some nations impose temporary restrictions during political unrest.

Chinese AI DeepSeek rattles Silicon Valley. Meta offering creators deals to promote Instagram on other apps: report. Diversified Energy nears $1.3B deal for Permian Basin natural gas player.

Meta-owned Instagram has been wooing creators from TikTok as the China-based video-snippet sharing app's future remains uncertain in the United States.

SoundHound's stock has struggled since its presentation at CES 2025, down nearly 30% since the event kicked off in early January. Today was especially rough, however, as the market digested news of the disruptive Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) entry, DeepSeek.

AMD's stock suffered from the same news dragging down much of Silicon Valley today: the release of a new artificial intelligence (AI) model out of China that rivals the best U.S. models.

Part of what’s worrying some U.S. tech industry observers is the idea that the Chinese startup has caught up with the American companies at the forefront of generative AI at a fraction of the cost.

In Amsterdam, Dutch chipmaking equipment company ASML slid 7%. In Tokyo, Japan’s Softbank Group Corp. lost 8.3% to pull closer to where it was before leaping on an announcement trumpeted by the White House that it was joining a partnership to invest up to $500 billion in AI infrastructure.