Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse has extended its Series C round to $439 million, pushing its valuation past $2 billion, up from roughly $1 billion in March, according to Bloomberg and KrASIA…
A study of more than 26,000 middle and high school students in central China found that using AI homework tools boosted homework scores by 18% but cut exam scores by 20%, with the negative effect on h…
Singapore-based video-generation startup PixVerse has raised $439 million in a Series C extension, pushing its valuation past $2 billion. The company, founded in 2023 by Wang Changhu and Jaden Xie, pl…
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of orchestrating the largest known AI model theft, using roughly 25,000 fake accounts to generate over 28.8 million interactions with Claude between April 22 an…
SK Hynix shares fell over 9% on the second day of US trading after the South Korean memory chip giant raised $26.5 billion in the largest-ever US listing by a foreign company, pricing 177.9 million AD…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella accused frontier AI labs OpenAI and Anthropic of hypocrisy on data usage in a July 12 post on X, coining the term 'reverse information paradox' to argue that enterprises pa…
The US government and leading AI developers are considering stronger measures to prevent Chinese companies from using American models to build competing systems through AI distillation, a process that…
Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai for the first time since the event launched in 2018, the Ministry …
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has launched a national safety benchmark for generative AI models, targeting six core dimensions and covering 31 specific safety risks. The init…
Shanghai-based semiconductor start-up Dongfang Suanxin has unveiled an aggressive road map to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI chips, centered on its DF1000 processor built on a 14-nanometre process…
PixVerse's R1 real-time world model aims to make AI video behave like a live, steerable environment rather than a rendered file, targeting gaming, livestreaming, and entertainment. The company, which …
Researchers from Zhejiang University and Alibaba presented a study at ICML 2026 showing that logically inconsistent prompts can cause reasoning models to enter long, unproductive internal loops, effec…
For the first time, China now has more robotics unicorns than e-commerce unicorns, according to industry data. On July 4, Alibaba and ByteDance pulled their custom AI agent features ahead of a new reg…
Anthropic and OpenAI warn that China is stealing their cutting-edge AI through a technique called distillation, enabling cheap, open-source chatbots that threaten US national security and its lead in …
Indian companies are increasingly adopting Chinese large language models from DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI to cut AI costs, deepening India's reliance on China for advanced technology despite bil…
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 c…
ByteDance and Alibaba will shut down user-created AI companion features in their Doubao and Qwen apps respectively starting July 15, as China's new interim rules for anthropomorphic AI interactive ser…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticized AI model makers like Anthropic for complaining about distillation while benefiting from training on public data. In an X post, Nadella called it hypocritical for…
China's National Vulnerability Database flagged multiple versions of Anthropic's Claude Code as containing a security back door that could send user locations and identifiers to remote servers, prompt…
SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in its Nasdaq debut, the largest-ever US listing by a foreign company, surpassing Alibaba's record. The South Korean memory chipmaker's shares closed 13% higher on their …