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Publication date: September 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 8 Author(s): Yu-li Liu, Rubing Li, Jiayi Mi, Jiayue Dai, Bo Hu

Publication date: November 2026 Source: Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 184 Author(s): Caihua Yu, Siwen Xu, Tonghui Lian

Publication date: August 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 87 Author(s): Danli Du, Jiahe Wang, Wenxue Jin

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

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Publication date: August 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 87 Author(s): Yuhong Huang, Mudan Lan

Publication date: October 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 231 Author(s): Yu Li, Changqi Tao, Jiawei Qian, Tao Xie

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 230 Author(s): Lin Wang, Fengqin Liu

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 230 Author(s): Yuanyu Guo, Yi Zhou, Liang Li

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 230 Author(s): Zhiyi Li, Zijun Li, Lei Jin, Yanze Wang

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 230 Author(s): Min Hong, Jingqi Shi, Manjiang Xing, Yuzhi Zhong

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 230 Author(s): Kaile Zhou, Ziwei Yang, Yaxuan Gao

Publication date: Available online 10 June 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change Author(s): Min Hong, Jingqi Shi, Manjiang Xing, Yuzhi Zhong

Publication date: October 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 8 Author(s): Dongyang Zhang, Dingchuan Bai, Yurun He, Rui Guo

Publication date: June 2026 Source: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, Volume 10 Author(s): Feifei Han, Zehua Wang

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Shengjing Yu, Xiaolan Zheng, Martin J. Liu

2027 7th International Conference on Computer, Control and Robotics (ICCCR 2027) [Chengdu, China] [May 14, 2027 - May 16, 2027]

IEEE 2026 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Automation and High Performance Computing [Xi'an, China] [Sep 18, 2026 - Sep 20, 2026]

2026 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics [Guangzhou, China/Online] [May 22, 2026 - May 24, 2026]

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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 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...

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.

Under New Policy, NSF Won’t Fund Research Involving Chinese Scientists Katherine Knott Tue, 07/14/2026 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Katherine Knott

China’s electric vehicle exports rose 68.7% year-on-year in the first half of 2026, according to customs data released on July 14. Exports of electric motorcycles and bicycles increased 31.5%, electric locomotives 45.1%, lithium batteries 37.6% and wind turbines 35.6%. The same data showed that exports of AI-integrated intelligent bionic robots exceeded 10,000 units and reached […]

Shanghai-based Marvel-Tech, a developer of gas turbines and industrial waste-heat and waste-pressure recovery turbine systems, has completed two consecutive financing rounds totaling more than RMB500 million. The C round was led by HongShan, while the B round was jointly led by C&D Emerging Investment and Qiming Venture Partners. The company said the funds will support […]

Facing anti-corruption policies and profit squeezing at home, Chinese innovative medical device companies are accelerating their push into the European market despite mounting cross-border trade protectionism. Government-backed hospital purchases of medical devices in China fell about 12 per cent year on year in the first five months of 2026, partly weighed down by “a new anti-corruption probe into hospitals”, dragging on the revenue of major Chinese medical device makers in the first half, said

Researchers determined that AI was used in steps across entire cyber operations to identify security flaws, generate commands and carry out parts of intrusions, sometimes with little human oversight. Both U.S. and Chinese AI models have been involved.

After decades in secure jobs, a new generation of Chinese retirees is entering later life with pensions, spare time, and an appetite for new experiences.

MeetingTV, an online videoconferencing and webinar startup, is suing Palo Alto Networks and recently acquired threat-intelligence firm Koi Security over a security research report that linked its infrastructure to a Chinese hacking operatio ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1587#7514)

MeetingTV has sued Palo Alto Networks after its newly acquired Koi Security threat-intelligence biz published a blog that linked the video conferencing and webinar startup to a Chinese corporate espionage operation. The legal complaint fil ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1587#7515)

CSET’s Colin Shea-Blymyer shared his expert insight in an article published by Bloomberg. The article examines growing concerns in Washington over the use of "distillation" by Chinese AI companies to train models using outputs from leading US systems, and the resulting debate over intellectual property, competition, and national security in the global AI race. The post Washington Is Looking to Keep China From Training Its AI on US Models appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technol

Shein Executive Chairman Donald Tang will step down as his mission of taking the company public nears completion, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Monday, retreating to an advisory role after three years as the public face of the global fast-fashion retailer. A Chinese-American billionaire who began his career in banking, Tang has acted as the Western proxy of ‌secretive Shein founder Sky Xu, liaising with politicians and regulators around the world while also...

Soil plasticity and water content drive elevated soil cracking risk across ~60% of China’s land during summer peaks, with increasing risk under future warming, suggests an analysis of 4,000 laboratory ...

President Trump called on the Senate to pass a cryptocurrency regulation bill Monday in honor of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who unexpectedly died over the weekend. “In honor of Senator Lindsey Graham, a big supporter, the U.S. Senate should pass the Clarity Act,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “China, and...

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has started building a safety benchmark to evaluate artificial intelligence models, as regulators in the United States and Europe strengthen oversight of AI security. The MIIT-led National Industrial Information Security Development Research Centre is now recruiting companies and experts to co-build the benchmark, with applications due on Tuesday, according to a notice published on Monday. The institute said that current frameworks..

After China’s cross-border deals for innovative drugs hit a record US$110 billion in the first half of 2026, the sector is now pivoting towards artificial intelligence-powered candidates to drive the next wave of transactions. China accounted for about 30 per cent of all new drugs currently under development worldwide, ranking second globally, according to Lan Gongtao, deputy director general of the Department of Drug Registration at the National Medical Products Administration. China’s...

The China Internet Association released a self-regulatory pact on personal information protection for AI agents at a forum in Beijing, with Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Volcengine, and 27 other internet companies among the first signatories. The pact is aimed at standardizing how AI agents collect, process, and use personal data as agent-based services spread across internet […]

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and three other agencies issued guidelines on July 13 to upgrade the country’s internet basic resources, targeting “systematic breakthroughs” by 2030 and a more advanced national internet infrastructure by 2035. The document calls for research into agent-to-agent networks, satellite internet, digital identity infrastructure, IPv6 upgrades, and the integration […]