DeepSeek has reportedly paused a planned funding round after a leaked transcript of founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng's off-the-cuff remarks went viral, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous so…
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 is positioning itself as a leader in inclusive AI governance, with President Xi Jinping delivering an opening speech at the ninth World Artificial Intelligence Conference that framed AI as a pub…
DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng told investors that a lack of access to AI chips is the primary factor holding China back, arguing that he needs 200,000 Huawei 950 chips to train a frontier model but Huawe…
Shanghai-based GPU designer MetaX has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO with Huatai International, targeting a listing by end of 2026, as Beijing escalates pressure on domestic AI firms to aban…
All 21 APEC member economies, including the US and China, agreed on a joint statement at the 2026 APEC Digital and AI Ministerial Meeting in Chengdu on July 23 endorsing trusted open-source AI approac…
At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 17, Nubia, StepFun, and Honor each unveiled what they called the world's first AI agent smartphone, highlighting a fragmented market…
Chinese memory chip maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) ejected engineers from SiCarrier, a Huawei-linked chipmaking-equipment vendor, from its R&D cleanrooms in Hefei last month amid a pricing …
Chinese memory chip maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has become powerful enough to charge prices that even Huawei cannot stomach, ordering engineers from Huawei-connected equipment vendor SiC…
A group of US lawmakers is pressing the Trump administration to close an alleged loophole in semiconductor export controls that they say allows Chinese firms like Huawei to access advanced AI chips th…
Z.ai, the Beijing-based AI developer formerly known as Zhipu, has completed construction and begun partial operations at a 1-gigawatt data center built exclusively on Chinese-made AI accelerators, Blo…
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…
The US Department of Defense terminated a $200 million contract with Anthropic after the AI company refused to allow 'any lawful use' of its models, leading to Anthropic being designated a national se…
US frontier labs are wrong to dismiss Chinese open source models like Kimi K3, argues Larry Salibra, rebutting Ben Thompson's claim that American labs have lower unit costs and sticky user relationshi…
Z.AI, the Chinese AI lab formerly known as Zhipu, has partially started operating a 1-gigawatt data centre built entirely with Chinese-made chips, marking the first large-scale proof that domestic sil…
Huawei and China Unicom Beijing launched what they claim is the world's largest 5G-Advanced (5G-A) 'gigauplink' commercial network, spanning over 10,000 base stations across Beijing. Tests showed a pe…
Apple briefly overtook Nvidia on July 17, 2026, becoming the world's most valuable company for the first time in more than a year, with Nvidia at about $4.908 trillion and Apple at about $4.902 trilli…
Beijing-based startup Moonshot released its Kimi K3 AI model, which tops Arena's ranking for front-end coding capability and costs half as much as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, according to Bank of America. T…
DeepSeek trained its flagship V3 model for about $5.6 million, a fraction of the $50 million to $100 million OpenAI spent on GPT-4, and the Chinese lab operating under U.S. chip export controls has co…
Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto invited Huawei and ByteDance to expand AI investment in Indonesia during meetings in Shanghai on July 17, aiming to accelerate …