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China’s Short-Drama Boom Calls for a New AI Crew
AI is shrinking crews and production times while opening film jobs to workers trained in fields far beyond cinema.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open weights and infrastructure after shaking up the frontier model race
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3's model weights and made parts of its infrastructure open source. The Chinese model nearly matches Western frontier models such as Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on popular benchmarks, but independent tests found major gaps in cyber and math performance, possibly pointing to distillation. The article Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open weights and infrastructure after shaking up the frontier model race appeared first on The Decoder .
CXMT’s roaring IPO isn’t the bubble signal it might appear
The Chinese group and its peers could continue to benefit if cheaper computing power results in more demand for AI
Can Europe’s new AI safety regime tame US rogue agents — and Chinese ambitions?
The first-ever case of an artificial intelligence agent going rogue coincides with the EU's major new powers to regulate AI. But Europe's leverage may be limited by the U.S.-China two-way race for AI supremacy.
From Moonshot to Enflame: how Tencent is betting big on China’s AI champions
Tencent Holdings is quietly reallocating its venture capital bets away from legacy internet assets to double down on China’s highest-profile artificial intelligence champions. While the tech giant’s sprawling portfolio spans mobile gaming, e-commerce and consumer goods globally, its AI strategy has rapidly accelerated. Earlier this month, Tencent trimmed its long-held stake in Kuaishou Technology days after backing a US$3 billion round for Kuaishou’s AI video unit, Kling AI. Tencent did not...
What CXMT must do to grow global memory market share and build on its surge: analysts
Shares of ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) could more than double from Monday’s close as the Chinese chipmaker expands its global dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) market share to 18 per cent by 2028, according to Nomura, which set a price target of 116 yuan. The listing of CXMT, the country’s top maker of DRAM chips, sparked investor momentum as its shares surged 466 per cent to close at 49 yuan. It has become the most valuable company listed on the mainland Chinese market. Its market cap.
AgiBot starts Hong Kong IPO process
Chinese humanoid robot maker AgiBot has initiated the process for a Hong Kong IPO. The move follows earlier reports that the Shanghai-based company had selected banks and was preparing for a listing. Founded in 2023, AgiBot develops humanoid robots and embodied AI systems for industrial and commercial applications. The company has also released AgiBot World, […]
Trump administration marshals allies for 6G race with China
More than 20 countries are joining a Trump administration initiative to coordinate next-generation wireless policy, standards and security before 6G reaches consumers.
Taiwan’s Tech Hurdles Threaten Military Capability and Potential Coalition Defense
CSET’s Sam Bresnick and Fanny Chao shared their expert analysis in an op-ed published by War on the Rocks. The article examines Taiwan’s challenges in adopting artificial intelligence for military applications, highlighting how the gap between Taiwan’s world-leading semiconductor industry and its limited military AI readiness could affect its ability to deter Chinese aggression and future collaboration with partners. The post Taiwan’s Tech Hurdles Threaten Military Capability and Potential Coali
Taiwan’s Tech Hurdles Threaten Military Capability and Potential Coalition Defense
Taiwan produces the world’s most advanced semiconductors, yet the island’s own military is only in the opening stages of adopting artificial intelligence systems. This mismatch bears directly on Taiwan’s ability to deter Chinese aggression.Beijing is pushing to develop and field sophisticated AI-enabled military capabilities. Given China’s focus on “reuniting” with Taiwan, the Taiwanese military could be the first to contend with the People’s Liberation Army’s emerging defense technologies durin
CXMT becomes China’s most valuable A-share company after $8.6 billion IPO
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s largest DRAM maker, raised RMB57.92 billion ($8.6 billion) in its Shanghai STAR Market IPO on July 27, in what became the largest mainland semiconductor offering on record. By the midday break, its shares had risen 531% from the IPO price, pushing its market value to RMB3.66 trillion and making it […]
Chinese chip champion CXMT soars more than 500% in market debut
Tech group becomes China’s most valuable listed company in mainland’s biggest IPO since 2010
China memory chipmaker CXMT’s shares soar in a blockbuster share listing in Shanghai
Shares of Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT have soared as the company began trading in Shanghai in mainland China’s biggest IPO in recent years.
China memory chipmaker CXMT skyrockets 500% in blockbuster Shanghai debut
The Hefei-based company raised 57.92 billion yuan ($8.6 billion) after pricing its IPO at 8.66 yuan per share.
Ctrip hit with $760 million antitrust fine over market dominance abuse
On Saturday, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) imposed administrative penalties on Ctrip Group for abusing its dominant market position in violation of the country’s Anti-Monopoly Law. The total fine and confiscated illegal gains amounted to RMB 5.179 billion ($760 million). In a statement released the same day, Ctrip said it had received the […]
CXMT shares rise 472% as DRAM maker becomes largest China-listed firm by total market cap
Shares of ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s leading maker of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, rose 472 per cent on their Shanghai trading debut, giving the company a market capitalisation of 3.31 trillion yuan (US$489 billion). The Hefei-based company opened at 49.50 yuan on the Star Market on Monday morning, compared with its initial public offering (IPO) price of 8.66 yuan. CXMT has become the most valuable company listed on the mainland Chinese market. The size of the...
Love’s Labor’s Found: The Beijing Scholar Speaking Up for Hired Hands
A Tsinghua University Ph.D. student who took on a series of short-term gigs for research shines a light on the pressures and pride felt by Beijing’s day laborers.
Nvidia’s China Partners and the PLA
CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an article published by The Wire China. The article examines how Nvidia’s network of partners in China has supplied organizations linked to China’s military and other U.S.-restricted entities, highlighting ongoing challenges in enforcing export controls on advanced AI technology. The post Nvidia’s China Partners and the PLA appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .
Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI
On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud
An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud Fascinating investigation by Matt Lenhard into the market that has grown up around reselling LLM tokens at a discount by pooling API keys from various sources. This looks to be mostly a thing in China. Resellers sell access to an LLM proxy that offers significant discounts on regular API pricing, which they achieve by abusing free trials, proxying through unprotected support bots, or sometimes through stolen credit cards or ch
What is the risk of using Chinese open AI models like Kimi K3?
The real problem is not overseas open-source but lack of co-ordination to protect infrastructure in the face of cyber attacks
Low profile, high AI ambition: what leaked comments reveal about DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng
In an era dominated by aggressive tech founders who chase billion-dollar valuations and maximal profits while curating loud public profiles, Liang Wenfeng stands out for his insistence on staying in the background. With only a couple of photographs of him circulating online, the founder of Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek and quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer Quant has long been a reclusive figure. But last week, a leaked transcript of a closed-door meeting with potential...
DeepSeek pauses its second fundraising round after founder’s leaked investor comments go viral
DeepSeek has suspended its second fundraising round after comments made by founder Liang Wenfeng during private investor meetings were leaked and went viral on Chinese social media, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Liang verbally informed prospective backers to hold off on the round, which had been targeting a pre-money valuation of roughly 480 billion yuan, equivalent […] This story continues at The Next Web
US reportedly favors selective bans over blanket restrictions on Chinese open weight models citing security concerns
The Trump administration is planning targeted bans on Chinese AI models rather than a blanket ban. After public pressure, OpenAI and Google DeepMind signed an open letter opposing regulation of open-weight models, yet OpenAI and Anthropic continue to lobby privately for those same restrictions amid security concerns and powerful business interests. The article US reportedly favors selective bans over blanket restrictions on Chinese open weight models citing security concerns appeared first on Th
AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show
A wave of AI-powered children's toys has hit shelves this holiday season, claiming to rely on sophisticated chatbots to animate interactive robots and stuffed animals that can converse with kids. Children have been conversing with stuffies ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1277#7590)
Apple’s biggest-ever leak happened in India. Will firms rethink their China relocations?
When Apple set its sights on India as its next promising market, CEO Tim Cook planned to take a leaf out of the company’s China playbook – a retail and manufacturing strategy that had paid hefty dividends to the US tech giant. “We are, in essence, taking what we learned in China years ago and how we scale to China and bringing that to bear,” Cook told investors in February 2023. The company had just seen record quarterly sales in the Indian market, and was just weeks ahead of the opening of...
China fines Trip.com $765 million for forcing hotels into exclusive deals and controlling their prices
China’s market regulator fined Trip.com Group $765 million on Saturday after concluding that the country’s largest online travel platform abused its dominant market position. The State Administration for Market Regulation said Trip.com used its traffic allocation algorithms, platform rules and technology to restrict hotel operators from listing on competing services and to control the prices […] This story continues at The Next Web
DeepSeek tells prospective investors of funding pause, Bloomberg News reports
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that it is suspending the deal for now, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with ...
When stars hold power: The impact of returnee deans on academic publications in Chinese universities
Publication date: October 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 8 Author(s): Liecheng Qiao, Xiaofang Dong
China hits Trip.com with US$765 million antitrust penalty after six-month investigation
China’s market regulator has imposed a 5.2 billion yuan (US$765 million) penalty on Trip.com Group, the country’s largest online travel services provider, for “monopolistic conduct”. Trip.com – operator of its namesake international platform, China-focused siblings Ctrip and Qunar, and global site Skyscanner – had “abused its dominant market position”, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said on Saturday. The market regulator confiscated 1.658 billion yuan in illegal gains and.
Investment with Chinese characteristics: how Beijing’s money is reshaping tech ventures
On the surface, China’s cutting-edge tech sector – from the algorithmic breakthroughs of DeepSeek and Zhipu AI to the hardware of Unitree Robotics and ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) – mirrors Silicon Valley’s venture capital-backed ecosystem. But a closer look at their financing histories reveals a common investor: the Chinese state. Beijing’s strong presence underscores a more profound structural shift in how China’s frontier technology is being funded. As Western venture capital and...
An open letter to David Sacks
China is closing the gap, but it’s not because we have too much regulation on AI
China’s AI vision gives the Global South a seat at the table
The ninth World Artificial Intelligence Conference marked a shift from the technology-focused exhibitions of previous editions to a high-profile international gathering of government officials, world leaders, scientists and entrepreneurs. President Xi Jinping delivered an opening speech to articulate China’s role in governing AI. While Silicon Valley, Washington and Brussels debate national security, frontier capabilities and corporate profitability, China is pushing AI to generate social good..
Diagnostic Performance of Large Language Models for Orthopedic-Related Rare Diseases and Their Impact on Physicians’ Diagnostic Accuracy: 2-Stage Comparative Evaluation Study Based on the Chinese Rare Disease Catalog
Background: Orthopedic-related rare diseases are difficult to diagnose because of their low prevalence, heterogeneous phenotypes, and fragmented knowledge. Large language models (LLMs) can serve as dynamic knowledge-support tools, but their diagnostic performance and effect on physicians’ decision-making remain unclear. Objective: This study aims to compare the diagnostic performance of advanced LLMs for orthopedic-related rare diseases and to evaluate the effect of a 2-stage LLM-assisted diagno
China Fines Trip.com $765 Million for Market-Dominance Abuse
Chinese regulators fined Trip.com Group Ltd. 5.18 billion yuan ($765 million), concluding that the country’s largest travel booking platform abused its market dominance after a monthslong ...
Nvidia and Palantir urge US not to ban ‘open’ AI models after China scare
US tech groups and investors respond to calls for restrictions on advanced Chinese technology
‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]
Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei backs Tau Scaling Law to beat US sanctions
Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei has thrown his weight behind the Chinese tech giant’s Tau Scaling Law, framing the new chip-design principle as an existential necessity to survive tightening US sanctions. “The Tau Scaling Law is the only path forward for Huawei to break the siege,” Ren said in recent internal remarks posted on Huawei’s Xinsheng Community intranet, according to a report on Friday by the state-backed Science and Technology Daily. Unlike companies with other technological.
How China is powering new data centers with clean energy
Unlike the U.S., China is making clean energy a core part of its AI infrastructure buildout.
How China is powering new data centers with clean energy
The number of data centers in China is surging thanks to AI , just like in the U.S. But unlike the U.S., China is racing to power them with clean energy. A data center in Mongolia , for example, is connected to 200 megawatts of wind power, 100 megawatts of solar power, and 45 megawatts of battery storage. In remote Qinghai, a pilot data center runs fully on a solar microgrid. In another part of northern China, a data center is connected to 500 megawatts of solar and 1.5 gigawatts of wind power.