AI can now replicate itself

This is everywhere over mainstream news. Why is nobody discussing it here?

Is it a typical fake article with an untraceable source? All you read is the usual AI mumbo-jumbo, "scientists from Fudan University in China", but there's never any specifics, i.e., author names and link to a tech paper/report.

I’ve been seeing people claim that DeepSeek’s base model was trained off OpenAI, and that you can achieve DeepSeek R1 through some simpler and less expensive process. I don’t really understand it, but if LLMs are becoming good at coding and if a human can derive one LLM from another, then it would make sense that we are technically close to AI having the potential to replicate itself. But that doesn’t feel like the same as an AI have the sentience to replicate itself.