China's three state-owned telecoms operators are making billable AI tokens a key growth metric as AI adoption accelerates. China Telecom reported a 95% surge in intelligent computing revenue in the fi…
Baidu now generates half of its revenue from AI products and services, driven by its integrated stack of Ernie large language models and Kunlun AI chips, which reduces reliance on Western silicon and …
Baidu reported second-quarter net profit attributable to shareholders fell 68% to RMB 2.32 billion on revenue of RMB 31.3 billion ($4.6 billion), down 4% year over year, while GPU cloud revenue surged…
China Mobile's first-half net income fell 6% year-over-year to RMB79 billion ($11.7 billion) as revenue dropped 1.1% to RMB538 billion ($79.8 billion), with the company citing a VAT hike on mobile dat…
China's government has become the dominant force in tech venture capital, with state-backed investors participating in over 140 AI deals in 2025, a 15-fold increase from fewer than 10 per year before …
China signed 29 nations into the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) on July 16, headquartered in Shanghai, as a direct counter to US export restrictions on AI technology. Z…
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi series of AI models, is targeting an IPO filing in Hong Kong in the second half of 2026 after its valuation surged from $4 billion to between $20 b…
Moonshot AI is preparing to release Kimi K3, an open-weight model with 2 trillion to 3 trillion parameters, directly challenging Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 pricing. The Beijing startup, valued at $20…
China Telecom's Ningxia unit launched bidding on a five-year framework for 'Token generation capacity services' with an estimated ceiling of Rmb 17.4bn, while Digital China submitted a Rmb 717m bid fo…
MIT researchers propose B-spline Policy (BSP), which parameterizes robot actions as continuous curves to speed up manipulation policy inference. The method reduces compute overhead by predicting B-spl…
The UN's AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva showcased robots and AI applications while diplomats in an adjacent room debated rules for lethal autonomous weapons. UN Secretary-General António Guterres…
MWC26 Shanghai, held June 24-26, signaled that telecom operators are building networks around AI tokens and agents, not just bandwidth. GSMA director-general Vivek Badrinath declared a mobile "IQ era"…
China Mobile activated the world's first commercial S+C+L three-band ultra-low-loss multi-core optical fiber line in Qingdao, Shandong province in early June 2026, delivering over five times the data …
China activated the world's first three-band optical fibre communication system, a 35km link in Beijing that uses S-band, C-band, and L-band simultaneously to boost capacity by over five times. Develo…
China has committed approximately $295 billion (2 trillion yuan) over five years to build a national AI computing network, mandating that 80% of core technology come from domestic suppliers. State-own…
China plans to invest approximately $295 billion over the next five years to build a nationwide network of AI-focused data centers, with a target completion date of 2028. The initiative, led by the Na…
China's three largest telecom operators — China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom — launched commercial AI token packages this past week, allowing users to track and bill AI usage through mobile…
0G Labs, in partnership with China Mobile, successfully trained a 107-billion-parameter AI model using its DiLoCoX framework, marking the first decentralized training of a model exceeding 100 billion …