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China's Cyberspace Administration enforces generative-AI content rules, mandatory algorithm registration, and deepfake labeling requirements as part of a state-directed AI strategy — tracked daily.
China approves Apple Intelligence for iPhones, with Alibaba, Baidu emerging as partners
Chinese regulators have granted Apple a long-awaited licence to roll out its artificial intelligence service on iPhones in the country, with Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu serving as technical partners. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the country’s internet watchdog, published a notice on Wednesday confirming the licence for Apple Intelligence – the AI feature used to summarise emails, draft reports, edit images and perform other tasks. It was granted alongside six other...
China's regulation on AI companions takes force
July marked the effective date for China's new requirements and potential liability on providers of AI-powered "emotional interaction services," marking the latest jurisdiction to tackle companion and ...
AI investor mania: China’s DeepSeek chases US$70 billion valuation in fresh round
Chinese frontier artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek is in talks with investors to raise a new financing round at around US$70 billion pre-investment valuation, shortly after closing a landmark first round, reflecting unquenched investor enthusiasm for the company. The plan comes on the heels of the Chinese AI darling’s recently closed Series A funding round in June – its first external funding round – which brought in about US$7 billion and valued the Hangzhou-based firm at nearly US$60..
Chipmaker CXMT seeks $10bn in largest China IPO since 2010
Chinese group capitalises on boom in demand for AI memory chips
China’s Economy Grows at Slowest Pace in Years
Economic growth of 4.3 percent in the second quarter, versus the same period last year, reflected a broad slump outside of the country’s export-oriented manufacturing might.
China memory giant CXMT valued at US$85 billion in record Shanghai IPO
China’s leading memory chipmaker, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), has priced its Shanghai initial public offering at 8.66 yuan (US$1.28) apiece, positioning the company for the largest listing by a Chinese semiconductor company on a mainland bourse. The firm, based in Hefei, Anhui province, is expected to raise gross proceeds of 57.9 billion yuan (US$8.5 billion) from the sale of nearly 6.7 billion shares, according to an offering announcement released on Tuesday. The shares represent 10...
CXMT sets IPO price at RMB8.66 per share
CXMT, a Chinese DRAM chipmaker, has set the price of its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at RMB8.66 per share. The company will offer 6.69 billion shares, with online and offline subscriptions scheduled for July 16. The offering is expected to raise about RMB57.9 billion ($8.55 billion) before any over-allotment option, giving CXMT an implied post-IPO […]
SHEIN receives CSRC filing notice for Hong Kong listing
SHEIN Global Holdings Limited, the company behind China-founded fashion e-commerce platform SHEIN, has received a filing notice from China’s securities regulator for a proposed listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The notice, issued on July 10, was based on materials submitted through the company’s mainland operating entity, Guangzhou Shein International Import & Export Co., […]
AI avatars are reshaping society in China — the law is trying to catch up
At the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Guangzhou, students can listen to lectures given by AI avatars that look and speak just like Albert Einstein or mathematician John Nash. The ...
‘Holy grail’ of naked mole-rat research reveals how queens rule
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Supreme Court’s Awful Ruling Encourages China’s Hunan Horse to Invade America
Bad Supreme Court decisions are nothing new, but on the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara, the justices laid an egg that will hatch some ugly ducklings. The court ruled that children born ...
DeepSeek needs more cash just weeks after closing its first $7 billion round
DeepSeek is already raising again. The Chinese AI lab just closed its first funding round and needs capital for its own data centers and chips to keep its aggressive pricing strategy going. The article DeepSeek needs more cash just weeks after closing its first $7 billion round appeared first on The Decoder .
Contractual control of real-time data: China's Senpu case and digital infrastructure access policy
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 8 Author(s): Fengliang Jin
How rationale and process transparency shape perceived legitimacy in AI-assisted decisions: Experimental evidence from China and the United States
Publication date: June 2026 Source: Government Information Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 2 Author(s): Shangrui Wang, Yuanmeng Zhang, Zhenming Huang, Zheng Liang
Chinese Parents’ Love: The ICT governance logic behind Chinese video game policies
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 8 Author(s): Zitao Chen, Yuqi Wang, Jing Wang
Robots and post-retirement labor supply: Evidence from China
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 8 Author(s): Mengxuan Wu, Weiwei Zheng, Wei Wang
Unpacking the Chinese privacy paradox: Fifty years of privacy perceptions and contemporary empirical evidence in the AI era
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 8 Author(s): Yu-li Liu, Rubing Li, Jiayi Mi, Jiayue Dai, Bo Hu
Blessed or not? The dual-path influence mechanism of intelligent elderly care service robots' roles on Chinese family caregivers' well-being
Publication date: November 2026 Source: Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 184 Author(s): Caihua Yu, Siwen Xu, Tonghui Lian
Building resilient industrial innovation systems: The role of enterprise–knowledge coupling in China's new energy vehicle industry
Publication date: August 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 87 Author(s): Danli Du, Jiahe Wang, Wenxue Jin
Engineering the digital technology sphere: China's new technology diplomacy and telecom ecosystem niche construction
Publication date: August 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 7 Author(s): Yujun Lin, Yuqi Lin, Ling Qiu, Yiming Liu, Ruoquan Li, Jiayi Xu
Safe harbor provisions of Chinese law: How clear are search engines from liability?
Publication date: 2008 Source: Computer Law & Security Report, Volume 24, Issue 5 Author(s): Huaiwen He
Free trade zone policy and corporate artificial intelligence transformation: Empirical evidence from China
Publication date: August 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 87 Author(s): Yuhong Huang, Mudan Lan
Environmental regulatory pressure, artificial intelligence and corporate green innovation bubbles in China
Publication date: October 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 231 Author(s): Yu Li, Changqi Tao, Jiawei Qian, Tao Xie
Regulatory science, earnings management, and stock price crash risk: Evidence from disclosure-oriented supervision in China
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 230 Author(s): Lin Wang, Fengqin Liu
Science-based regulation, managerial risk preference and corporate risk-taking: Evidence from China
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 230 Author(s): Yuanyu Guo, Yi Zhou, Liang Li
Smart cities, unequal outcomes: Artificial intelligence, environmental regulation, and urban carbon distribution in China
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 230 Author(s): Zhiyi Li, Zijun Li, Lei Jin, Yanze Wang
Does post disclosure inquiry based supervision crowd out green innovation? Evidence from stock exchange inquiry letters in China
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 230 Author(s): Min Hong, Jingqi Shi, Manjiang Xing, Yuzhi Zhong
Evaluating and predicting the carbon footprint of training and inference for large-scale AI models in China
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 230 Author(s): Kaile Zhou, Ziwei Yang, Yaxuan Gao
Corrigendum to “Does post disclosure inquiry based supervision crowd out green innovation? Evidence from stock exchange inquiry letters in China” [Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change 230 (2026) 124770:1–14/ID: TFS-D-25-10815]
Publication date: Available online 10 June 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change Author(s): Min Hong, Jingqi Shi, Manjiang Xing, Yuzhi Zhong
Greening but concentrating? The unintended effects of China's voluntary participatory environmental regulations on firms' innovation portfolios
Publication date: October 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 8 Author(s): Dongyang Zhang, Dingchuan Bai, Yurun He, Rui Guo
Teacher feedback and ChatGPT feedback on Chinese university EFL learners’ English essay revision: A mixed-methods study
Publication date: June 2026 Source: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, Volume 10 Author(s): Feifei Han, Zehua Wang
Digital innovation as a bank risk mitigator: Empirical insights from Chinese commercial banks
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Shengjing Yu, Xiaolan Zheng, Martin J. Liu
ICCCR 2027 : 2027 7th International Conference on Computer, Control and Robotics (ICCCR 2027)
2027 7th International Conference on Computer, Control and Robotics (ICCCR 2027) [Chengdu, China] [May 14, 2027 - May 16, 2027]
AIAHPC 2026 : IEEE 2026 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Automation and High Performance Computing
IEEE 2026 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Automation and High Performance Computing [Xi'an, China] [Sep 18, 2026 - Sep 20, 2026]
ICAIDE 2026 : 2026 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics
2026 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics [Guangzhou, China/Online] [May 22, 2026 - May 24, 2026]
The World's Strictest Law on Human-Like AI
China's new law on anthropomorphic AI comes into effect tomorrow. Here is what it says | Edition #306
How the US and China Can Step Back from the Battle for AI Model Supremacy
China’s StepFun claims it has unveiled the world’s first AI smartphone
As Apple’s latest legal battle with OpenAI complicates the Silicon Valley race to reshape the consumer tech market, one Chinese start-up is taking a leap forward after unveiling what it claims to be the world’s first agentic smartphone. At a launch event in Shanghai on Monday, Tencent Holdings-backed StepFun introduced the StepX Neo. The device runs on Step AOS, an operating system designed specifically for artificial intelligence agents, and was launched under StepX – which the firm billed as..
Alibaba to team up with Honor in race to build AI agentic devices
Alibaba Group Holding and Honor are set to deepen their tie-up over an operating system for AI-powered devices, as competition in the nascent “AI phone” genre gains momentum in China. The partnership is expected to be announced at the coming World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), which kicks off on Friday in Shanghai, alongside demonstrations of new agent capabilities developed by both, according to people familiar with the matter. Shenzhen-based Honor, spun off from Huawei...
Chinese AI giants, start-ups ready for the agentic web era
The agentic web era has arrived, and Chinese companies are going all in. Humans were overtaken last month by artificial intelligence (AI) agents and AI bots as the majority users of the internet, data from global network company Cloudflare shows. By early July, agents and bots accounted for more than 60 per cent of web traffic. Even Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince expressed surprise in a post on X, having initially forecast AI agent-driven web use would pass the 50 per cent mark only in late 2027.