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Senior China correspondent Amy Hawkins on China’s embrace of AI, from medical avatars to food delivery drones and state surveillance While the spread of AI has been met perhaps with a lot of scepticism in the west, China has fully embraced the technology, explains Amy Hawkins , from millions of users talking to AI doctors, to the use of intelligent robots in factories, and drones delivering food on the Great Wall of China. AI has also been eagerly taken up by the state, not least in the opportun

CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an article published by The Financial Times. The article examines why companies around the world are increasingly adopting Chinese AI models, drawn by their lower costs, improving capabilities, and the flexibility offered by open-weight systems. The post Companies turn to Chinese AI models to cut costs appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

Companies backed by the state and provincial governments in China have announced new funds to focus on the semiconductor industry, which requires a large amount of time and resources to grow, at a time when the country is in need of more “patient capital”. China Life Insurance, the country’s largest life insurer, backed by the State Council, said it would establish a partnership with total capital of 5 billion yuan (US$737 million) that “principally invests in companies operating in the...

Zhang Qi, a ride-hailing driver based in Guangzhou, has turned to artificial intelligence this year to help his son make one of the most important decisions of his young life: choosing a university degree programme. Like millions of 18-year-olds across China, Zhang’s son recently received his university entrance exam results and had to navigate the country’s labyrinthine admissions system – choosing from thousands of programmes at hundreds of schools. Many middle-class families hire expensive...

CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an article published by The Wall Street Journal. The article examines China’s successful launch and recovery of the Long March-10B rocket booster, a milestone that could significantly reduce launch costs and strengthen China’s ambitions to become a leading space power. The post China Successfully Launches Reusable Rocket in a Win for Space Program appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

CSET Executive Director Helen Toner spoke about the global AI competition at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The post Helen Toner Discusses U.S.-China AI Race at Aspen Ideas Festival appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

Artificial intelligence has spent years learning to generate words, images and videos. Now, the industry’s attention is shifting towards “world models” – AI systems designed to simulate how the physical or digital world changes over time. While the term was originally associated with physics simulations and robotics, a growing number of Chinese companies are applying the concept more broadly. The technology remains in its infancy, with little consensus on what a world model should ultimately...

Online retail giant Shein Global Holdings has secured approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to seek an initial public offering in Hong Kong, a long-awaited step for the firm after its attempts to list in New York or London stalled. The firm plans to issue up to 341.6 million shares and list on the Hong Kong stock exchange, according to a Friday statement by the CSRC. Shein previously sought to go public in New York or London, according to earlier media reports, but...

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to summarize and evaluate policy-relevant information, but it remains unclear whether their judgments are implicitly shaped by geopolitical cues. I study this question with an endorsement experiment in which four LLMs evaluate the same international economic and security policies after each policy is randomly described as supported by the United States, the European Union, China, or Russia. In the numeric-only condition, GPT-5, Claude Sonnet, an

ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, has started the issuance process for its STAR Market IPO, with subscriptions scheduled for July 16. The Chinese DRAM maker plans to raise RMB29.5 billion. CXMT is China’s largest DRAM producer and one of the country’s most important memory chip companies, in a market still dominated globally by Samsung, SK […]

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in online medical consultation, yet existing benchmarks remain poorly aligned with real clinical practice. Many rely on synthetic conversations or patient simulators, omit patient-uploaded medical images, or evaluate open-ended clinical responses using multiple-choice or lexical-overlap metrics that poorly reflect clinical quality. We introduce \textbf{MedRealMM}, a large-scale benchmark for multimodal online medical consultation built from

A recent review of nationwide and global medical data links the shift to an aging population and better detection, with the country's cancer profile changing alongside rising case numbers.

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Chinese tech industry experts say the rapidly increasing use of AI tokens is giving rise to a token-based economy, with the tiny units underpinning artificial intelligence services evolving beyond a technical metric and into the basis for delivering and pricing AI services. “The [Chinese] digital economy has gone through the stages of the data economy and the computing economy. Today, the token economy is emerging,” Yin Hao, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said on Wednesday...

Chinese AI labs are increasingly pursuing proprietary chips, mirroring a global trend towards software-hardware integration, but industry insiders and analysts warn that the strategy carries risk due to the massive upfront investments required. “The core motivation for choosing in-house chips lies in pursuing [greater] hardware-software synergy and lowering long-term operating costs,” said Arisa Liu, chief director and research fellow at Taiwan Industry Economics Services. Paul Triolo, a partner

Chinese memory giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) kicked off the final stage of its Shanghai listing, setting a subscription date for a share offering that is expected to raise at least 29.5 billion yuan (US$4.3 billion) and would rank as the second-largest on the tech-focused Star Market. China’s leading DRAM maker, based in Hefei in the central province of Anhui, will hold its initial price consultation on Monday and open subscriptions on July 16. The initial public offering (IPO) will.

China's release of yet another impressive open-source AI model has lately raised urgent questions in Silicon Valley about which country will dominate the AI market. What has received less attention are the ways that Chinese actors are alrea ... (report_number: 7501)

A state-owned newspaper in China recently published a satellite image of a data center in Gainesville, Va., writing in English that the development of artificial intelligence posed a threat to Americans' physical and financial well-being. ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1581#7504)

Jellyfish, raw crabs, and endless ocean — an entrepreneur’s relaxing trip in South China turns into a nightmare ordeal.

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European firms say they are fighting to secure a foothold in physical AI – the integration of artificial intelligence into robotics and machinery – as China and the United States take an early lead in the sector, with industry insiders warning the continent faces the threat of further deindustrialisation if it fails to establish a competitive industry. “You see China and the US … because of AI … typically they are considered the leaders, but do not count out Europe,” said David Kehr, president..

Mainland Chinese technology companies newly listed on Hong Kong’s stock exchange are deepening their engagement with the city, tapping not only its capital markets but also its global connectivity to refine products, forge international partnerships and expand overseas, according to executives. For Beijing-based service robot maker Yunji Technology, Hong Kong has become a key gateway to global markets since its listing in the city in October. “If we use one word to describe what Hong Kong offers

China introduced three new regulatory developments addressing AI ethics, AI agents and anthropomorphic AI, which reflect a regulatory shift from broad AI principles toward more detailed, operational ...

China is facing a delicate regulatory balancing act as it weighs the security risks of open-weight AI models against an innovation strategy that has been crucial to its race for technological supremacy with the United States, researchers said. Traditionally, open-weight models – which allow anyone to download code for free and run it on local hardware – have lagged months behind proprietary frontier models. But recent releases from Chinese labs have significantly narrowed that gap. Zhipu AI’s...

In recent years, countries around the world have rolled out policies to curb minors’ social media usage. A recent Chinese university report assesses their efficacy.

The US Federal Communications Commission ⁠said on Tuesday it is adding California-based Digitalsystem Technology to a list of companies posing risks to US national security, citing links to Chinese telecoms firms and its ownership by a Chinese national. The FCC also said ‌it was denying the Los Angeles-based IT company permission to provide international telecommunications services, saying it could be exploited by Chinese threat actors. “There is significant risk that the government of China and

Corporate America is starting to balk at the cost of AI agents. A cheap alternative from China looks more tempting than ever.

Robbyant, the embodied artificial intelligence arm of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, launched a new vision model that it claims can help robots overcome a long-standing challenge: accurately perceiving glass, mirrors and transparent objects. The unit of Hangzhou-based Ant Group on Tuesday unveiled its next-generation spatial perception model, LingBot-Depth 2.0, alongside a new foundational visual model called LingBot-Vision, as AI labs race to equip machines with the “brains” required to...

The coming World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) is set to feature major new product releases, such as Huawei Technologies’ next-generation computing cluster, as China doubles down on AI in the global technology race. This year’s WAIC, the ninth since 2018 and running from July 17 to 20 in Shanghai, would include the first physical display of Huawei’s Atlas 950 SuperPoD, Tang Wenkan, director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatisation, said at a press briefing.

China’s semiconductor equipment industry is heading into the first-half earnings season under intense scrutiny, as a broad stock rally turns one of the tech sector’s least visible niches into a crowded investor trade. The rally has swept across makers of etching, thin-film deposition, cleaning and testing machines, among others, reflecting bets that China’s next round of chip spending will benefit a wider group of domestic suppliers. Shares of Naura Technology Group have soared more than 70 per.

China’s innovation ecosystem has witnessed a resurgence, minting 67 new unicorn start-ups in the first half of 2026 – the biggest increase in almost five years – as AI and robotics kick off a new investment cycle. The growth translates into an average of one new unicorn – private companies valued at US$1 billion or more – in less than every three days and was the highest since the second half of 2021 when 76 new unicorns were created, according to a Monday report by ITJuzi, a start-up...

BEIJING, July 7, 2026 — China’s economy stayed resilient in early 2026, supported by strong high-tech investment and exports, according to the World Bank’s latest China Economic Update, Rebalancing ...

Tech giant Alibaba Group Holding has secured a temporary legal reprieve that effectively allows it to resume lobbying in the United States, the latest development in its dispute with the Pentagon after the firm was included on a blacklist of companies deemed to support China’s military. A judge in the Northern District of California on Sunday ordered the Department of Defence not to enforce a lobbying prohibition against Alibaba while the court considered the firm’s constitutional challenge to..

The global robotaxi sector is on track to become a US$1 trillion market by 2040, according to Morgan Stanley, with Chinese players like Baidu, Xpeng and WeRide primed to be regional front-runners alongside global leaders Tesla and Waymo. In a research note on Friday, the US investment bank forecast that falling manufacturing costs in China would act as a “major underappreciated accelerant” for the industry. Driven by cheaper supply chains, the cost of parts per vehicle for Chinese-made robotaxi.

According to China STAR Market Daily, sources familiar with the matter said Huawei’s Mate 90 series, expected to launch this autumn, is planned to feature a new Kirin chipset based on the company’s Tao (τ) Law. Huawei introduced Tao (τ) Law in May this year as a new guiding principle for semiconductor development. The framework […]

Coverage will apply to food delivery workers, rideshare drivers, and other platform-based flexible workers, even without formal labor contracts, with companies paying all premiums.

Two new models from Chinese firms compete with top US mainstream and frontier models. Should cyber-defenders be worried?

A 12-year-old primary school student with a rare muscle-wasting disease gives his peers and teachers a lesson in resilience.

During a recent conference on the People’s Liberation Army, I heard the same question posed to attendees and paper writers: “How would China react to U.S. force posture change X, Y, or Z?” or “How would the Chinese military respond to U.S. strikes in certain locations?” Having participated in dozens of unclassified wargames at the RAND Corporation and elsewhere, I hear a similar refrain when playing the “red team.”This is a reasonable and legitimate question. Policymakers and war planners should