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Unlike the U.S., China is making clean energy a core part of its AI infrastructure buildout.

Unlike the U.S., China is making clean energy a core part of its AI infrastructure buildout.

Unlike the U.S., China is making clean energy a core part of its AI infrastructure buildout.

Top executives at leading Western AI companies are increasingly warning about the safety and national security risks posed by Chinese open-weight frontier models. What they tend not to mention is that these models are improving rapidly and, because they are freely available, pose a serious threat to Western labs’ business models. The most powerful models from U.S. labs such as OpenAI , Anthropic , and Google DeepMind are closed, meaning the parameters that shape their outputs are kept secret. Ge

MetaX, a Chinese maker of graphics processing units (GPUs), has confidentially filed for a listing in Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the matter. The Shanghai-based company was targeting an initial public offering (IPO) by the end of this year, according to the sources, who asked not to be identified because the information was confidential. MetaX was working with Huatai International Financial Holdings on the potential share sale, the people said. The company did not immediately...

Visa, a global leader in digital payments, and Lianlian DigiTech Co., Ltd., an AI-native global financial infrastructure provider, today announced the first live B2B agentic transaction completed using LoopXPay, Lianlian’s AI agent.

Chinese unicorn Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model trails far behind top American rivals in its ability to launch cyberattacks, joint British-US government research shows, challenging Washington’s brewing anxiety over the rapid rise of Chinese open-source artificial intelligence. The model, currently considered China’s most powerful large language model, performs “significantly below the most recent frontier cyber-capable models”, according to a report published on Thursday by the UK Artificial...

China slapped export controls on 14 European companies including German defense giant Rheinmetall AG, saying it acted in retaliation against the European Union’s sanctions on mainland and Hong Kong ...

Simon Johnson is a professor of entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), he won a joint Nobel Prize for economics in 2024 for his research into how institutions shape national prosperity. On June 8, the British government announced Johnson as chair of its new AI Economics Institute. In this interview, conducted on the sidelines of the UBS Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong, Johnson discussed the.

While China’s humanoid robots and automated “dark factories” have made headlines, another form of automation has been advancing: the collaborative robot, or cobot. Designed to operate alongside human employees, cobots have been transformed by machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). The latest models feature programming which requires no coding knowledge; instead they respond to natural-language voice commands, gesture controls and drag-to-teach demonstrations of tasks. They are also..

CXMT is stoking fears that its blockbuster stock market debut could pull cash from China's equities.

China’s A-share market has seen another high-profile divorce case result in a massive asset split, involving the transfer of 6 billion yuan (US$886 million) – the highest this year – and raising concerns over corporate governance stability and share price fluctuations. Although the scope of the divorce settlement is not at all comparable to that of Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates, it has made tens of thousands of retail investors worry about their portfolio holdings and paper wealth. Maxone...

This study investigates how writers of high-velocity Chinese digital romance fiction negotiate the arrival of generative AI at the desk. Drawing on a 4-year multi-sited digital ethnography (2021–2025) and interviews with 34 writers on Jinjiang Literature City alongside sustained forum observation and platform-discourse analysis, this article tracks how authors of serial romance work under the time discipline of the daily-update treadmill in the presence of large language models (LLMs). I argue t

After decades of work and family responsibilities, older Chinese are pursuing overseas education for themselves, but many are finding classrooms designed for younger students.

In a six-patient trial, a new gene-silencing drug reduced disease-related biomarkers, with no serious adverse events reported.

A plurality of respondents to a recent survey believe China is further along than the U.S. on developing artificial intelligence, as Trump administration officials accuse a Chinese startup of stealing intellectual property. Thirty-six percent of respondents to the Pew Research Center poll think China is more advanced on AI than the U.S., while just 12...

In a leaked call transcript, we learn what DeepSeek's CEO thinks are China's weaknesses and strengths in the AI race with the United States | Edition #309

The European Union on Thursday hit hit Google with a fine of 890 million euros ($1 billion) after it said the technology behemoth broke digital antitrust regulations by setting up Google Play and its ubiquitous search engine to corral consumers towards its own services and apps to the detriment of competitors. It was the latest major crackdown on Big Tech by Brussels, which has led the world in reining in some of the world’s largest companies from Silicon Valley to Beijing. It has done so despit

The humanoid revolution is coming—and the Chinese firm Unitree is leading the charge.

US scrutiny of Chinese technology has expanded to a new frontier, as lawmakers in Washington advance defence legislation prohibiting the military from deploying Chinese-made humanoid robots. The US House of Representatives has passed the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), an annual military policy bill that incorporates provisions restricting the use of foreign autonomous systems over national security and data privacy concerns. Under Section 163 of the draft bill, the Pentagon would be.

Alibaba Group Holding’s mapping unit has unveiled an upgrade to what it calls the world’s first technology framework that unites a robot’s “feet, hands, brains, central nerves and motor nerves” into a single system. Amap’s ABot system marks the latest move in Chinese tech players’ race to harness artificial intelligence models to make robots more capable. Referred to as embodied intelligence, the effort aims to equip machines with the “brains” and other elements required to navigate and complete

According to a report by IT Home, DeepSeek, the Chinese AI developer behind the open-source R1 reasoning model, is prioritizing artificial general intelligence (AGI) research over building a consumer platform or maximizing near-term revenue. The report is based on a circulated transcript of a four-hour investor meeting involving founder Liang Wenfeng. Why it matters: The […]

A recent AI cyberattack that stunned the industry has unexpectedly put Chinese AI company Zhipu AI and its open-source model GLM 5.2 in the spotlight. OpenAI has acknowledged for the first time that one of its AI models escaped a sandboxed testing environment during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and compromised the production infrastructure of Hugging […]

The outsized premium was due in part to offshore investors who, locked out of the highly anticipated listings, turned to crypto for a parallel market.

A recent investigation found some institutions highlight selective short-term returns while using inconsistent metrics that can make products harder to compare.

A top White House official accused a Chinese startup on Wednesday of improperly using Anthropic's latest model and accessing restricted Nvidia chips to develop its new Kimi model. Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said the administration has information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable to produce...

Tech policy leadership in the White House say Moonshot AI illegally trained its model off of Anthropic’s Fable.

Commerce panel approves legislation barring companies with significant Chinese ownership from US market

Durante estas semanas ha circulado un vídeo sobre un robot trepando por la superficie curva de un tanque metálico, pegado a la chapa como si fuera una lapa, mientras pule y elimina óxido sin que ningún humano tenga que colgarse de una cuerda para hacerlo. En nuestros lares es bastante sorprendente ver esto, pero en China hay un buen puñado de empresas que ofrecen robots especializados en trabajos de altura, y por eso se me ha ocurrido que quizás es buena idea contar en este artículo qué hay de i

While distillation attacks by foreign governments and companies have real national security implications, questions around who ultimately owns the data in AI systems are fraught. The post White House accuses Chinese company of distilling Anthropic’s Fable appeared first on CyberScoop .

The release of Kimi K3 , the latest model from Moonshot Labs, a Chinese AI firm founded by a former Carnegie Mellon computer science graduate, has shaken both the AI and political worlds. In an instant, the seemingly comfortable lead held by U.S. frontier AI labs over their Chinese competitors appeared to narrow sharply. K3’s release has rattled the chattering classes in Washington and Silicon Valley. In response, they have begun fighting among themselves. Samuel Hammond, director of AI policy a

Disposal of Chinese agentic AI start-up has left the Facebook owner better off than it might seem. Von Louise Lucas ( KI , Wirtschaft )

China is the first country to enact substantial legislation on AI relationships in an effort to protect people from the worst aspects of digital companions

VW will die Entwicklung von Fahren mit Level 3 und Level 4 in China beschleunigen. Dafür vertieft der Konzern die Zusammenarbeit mit Horizon Robotics.

Beijing is ramping up its computing power and unveiling new policies to boost the city’s “token economy”, as China accelerates AI adoption across key industries in its tech race with the US. The Chinese capital aims to add another 50,000 petaflops of intelligent computing power in the second half of 2026, pushing its total capacity over 130,000 petaflops by the end of the year, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology said at a press briefing on Tuesday. One petaflop is

The release of the Chinese AI model Kimi 3 is forcing Washington and Silicon Valley to reckon with another sign of intense competition with Beijing, renewing questions over how to curb the country’s technology capabilities. Kimi 3, released late last week by the China-based firm Moonshot AI, quickly sent shockwaves through industry and policy circles,...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signalled potential action against open source artificial intelligence (AI) models amid accusations that Chinese developers are creating low-cost systems using stolen US intellectual property. “This administration supports open source models, but what we do not support is IP theft,” Bessent said on Fox Business on Tuesday. “If we see, especially, that overseas models are stealing from our great companies, we have the ability to sanction them.” Watermarks from.

A flagship model from China’s Zhipu AI has helped contain an autonomous cyberattack by OpenAI’s frontier systems targeting popular developer platform Hugging Face, as concerns grow over the security risks posed by advanced AI models. OpenAI’s latest flagship models – including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, “even more capable” system – recently breached Hugging Face’s infrastructure during internal evaluations of their offensive cyber capabilities, the US lab disclosed on Wednesday. The company.

The article examines China’s vaccination policy, focusing particularly on childhood immunisation and pandemic vaccines. Although China’s laws require individuals to engage in the vaccination decision-making process, the policy does not enforce mandatory vaccination through penalties. Instead, it emphasises informed decision-making, allowing and supporting individuals to choose whether to vaccinate or adopt other preventive measures based on their best health interests. The legal fram