China's trade surplus for June 2026 reached $125.62 billion, surpassing both the previous month's $105.43 billion and the estimated $120.10 billion, fueled by a 20.8% increase in exports and a 29.4% r…
President Donald Trump urged the U.S. Senate to pass the Clarity Act for crypto regulation, citing the need to compete with China and advancements in artificial intelligence. The bill, which passed th…
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, Russia and Iran are using state media and social media campaigns to inflame debate over AI data centers in the United States, according to a new analysis by threat intelligence company Alethea.…
Chinese President Xi Jinping will deliver the keynote address at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai this July, marking the first time China's top leader has personally appea…
China is allegedly stealing advanced AI technologies from US firms Anthropic and OpenAI through distillation attacks, threatening US national security by potentially enhancing adversarial capabilities…
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…
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and three other agencies issued guidelines on July 13 targeting systematic breakthroughs in next-generation internet infrastructure by 2030 and …
Saudi Arabia bought a record $47.2 million of drones from Taiwan in June, the most in a month for any nation since data collection began in June 2023, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Finance. The pu…
China is rapidly deploying AI across sectors, from medical avatars to food-delivery drones on the Great Wall, while expanding state surveillance with facial recognition and data tracking. The governme…
Xpeng vice-chairman and president Brian Gu Hongdi said the Chinese electric-vehicle maker is confident it can compete head-to-head with Tesla in international markets, leveraging self-driving technolo…
China's export growth for June 2026 is expected to decelerate to 5.8% year-on-year, down from May's 19.4% surge but still above the 5% forecast, according to a Reuters report. The AI sector's rapid ex…
China's exports likely grew 18.2% year-on-year in June, cooling from 19.4% in May, according to a Reuters poll of 20 economists, as firms accelerated shipments to the U.S. ahead of possible tariffs an…
China, Russia and other nations are attempting to inflame debate over artificial intelligence data centers, according to a New York Times report. The countries are reportedly seeking to influence glob…
A new analysis from ai-2040.com explores five 'Plan A' scenarios for US-China cooperation to slow transformative AI development, including chip-level compute control, a joint international project mod…
U.S. restrictions on artificial intelligence are inadvertently accelerating China's AI progress, potentially shifting the balance of technological power. Sam Bresnick, a research fellow at the Center …
Chinese AI models are emerging as cost-effective rivals to proprietary developers, challenging US dominance in the global tech race. Their near-equivalent capability at lower cost threatens Western bu…
Chinese tech firm DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, a strategic move to reduce reliance on Western technology amid geopolitical tensions and tech embargoes. The effort signals China's push for t…
Anthropic accuses Chinese tech companies of reverse engineering its Claude AI model through knowledge distillation, raising concerns over intellectual property theft and AI ethics. The allegations hig…
Z.ai released ZCode, a free desktop AI coding environment powered by its open-weights GLM-5.2 model, which benchmarks within one percentage point of Claude Sonnet 5 on coding tasks while undercutting …