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ZCode Challenges Claude Code, Cursor & Co
ZCode Challenges Claude Code, Cursor & Co Beijing-based Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) launched ZCode on Wednesday, a free desktop app for macOS, Windows,...
02.07.2026China's Micro-Drama Industry: AI takes over in 90 days
China's Micro-Drama Industry: AI takes over in 90 days In Hengdian, the major film hub in Zhejiang, actors like Cheng Qiao were earning 800 to 1,500...
01.07.2026China Builds a Trillion-Parameter Model Entirely on Its Own Chips
China Builds a Trillion-Parameter Model Entirely on Its Own Chips Meituan, known in China primarily for food delivery, unveiled LongCat-2.0 on...
01.07.2026Washington Greenlights Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 Again
Washington Greenlights Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 Again The U.S. Department of Commerce lifted all export restrictions on Anthropic's AI models on...
30.06.2026GLM 5.2 Beats Claude in More Benchmarks
GLM 5.2 Beats Claude in More Benchmarks Semgrep ran a series of open-weight models against its own IDOR benchmark—same dataset, same prompt as with...
30.06.2026Token Costs: Coinbase Relies on Chinese AI Models
Token Costs: Coinbase Relies on Chinese AI Models Brian Armstrong has switched Coinbase to affordable Chinese models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7. The...
30.06.2026China's First AI-Powered Cancer Vaccine Production Line Launches in Beijing
China's First AI-Powered Cancer Vaccine Production Line Launches in Beijing China has laid the foundation stone in Beijing for what developers claim...
29.06.2026Jefferies Warns: Memory Prices Continue to Skyrocket
Jefferies Warns: Memory Prices Continue to Skyrocket Jefferies Equity Research anticipates a price jump of 40 to 50 percent quarter-over-quarter for...
29.06.2026Marc Andreessen: GLM-5.2 Beats Claude Mythos
Marc Andreessen: GLM-5.2 Beats Claude Mythos Security researchers report that Zhipu AI's new model GLM-5.2 (also known as Z.ai) rivals the best U.S....
28.06.2026Apple Seeks 'Green Light' for Chinese Memory Chips
Apple Seeks 'Green Light' for Chinese Memory Chips Apple has reportedly asked the Trump administration for a green light to purchase memory chips...
28.06.2026TikTok's Path to a Super-App
TikTok's Path to a Super-App TikTok is often described as a social media giant, but the app has long since moved beyond that category. Over the...
27.06.2026China: Government Pushes AI into Every Fiber of the Economy
China: Government Pushes AI into Every Fiber of the Economy While the West argues about which model is the smartest, Beijing's Ministry of Commerce,...
26.06.2026China's AI Infrastructure Reaches the West
China's AI Infrastructure Reaches the West Two movements are running in parallel, and both aim for the same thing: making Chinese models available...
25.06.202601.AI Wants to Become China's Palantir
01.AI Wants to Become China's Palantir Kai-Fu Lee has almost silently restructured his AI startup 零一万物 (01.AI) over the past year, meeting with over...
25.06.2026Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of the Largest Distillation Campaign Against Claude to Date
Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of the Largest Distillation Campaign Against Claude to Date Anthropic has informed US senators and the White House that...
24.06.2026China Reclaims Supercomputer Crown
China Reclaims Supercomputer Crown For the first time since 2017, a Chinese computer is once again at the top of the Top500 list. LineShine from the...
23.06.2026Open-Weight Models: The 'ChatGPT Moment' for Your Pocket
Open-Weight Models: The 'ChatGPT Moment' for Your Pocket For the first time, a freely downloadable model with an MIT license is playing on par with...
23.06.2026GLM-5.2 Just Ahead of Kimi K2.7: Two Chinese Open-Source Models Reset Frontier Prices
GLM-5.2 Just Ahead of Kimi K2.7: Two Chinese Open-Source Models Reset Frontier Prices Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 and Moonshot's Kimi K2.7 Code, both launched...
23.06.2026China Strikes Back: Export Controls and Procurement Bans for US Firms
China Strikes Back: Export Controls and Procurement Bans for US Firms On Monday, China imposed new restrictions on exports and public procurement...
23.06.2026JD.com: 700,000 Couriers to Be Replaced by Robots
JD.com: 700,000 Couriers to Be Replaced by Robots Richard Liu, CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, openly stated at the APEC China CEO Forum in...
21.06.2026Trump's Whims: One Lunch with Dario Amodei and Everything's Just Fine
Trump's Whims: One Lunch with Dario Amodei and Everything's Just Fine In an Axios interview published on June 19, Donald Trump stated he no longer...
21.06.2026One API for 50+ Chinese Models: Access to the Price Revolution
One API for 50+ Chinese Models: Access to the Price Revolution AIWave provides a translation layer between your own application and eight Chinese...
21.06.2026Europe and AI: A Doomsday Scenario as a Wake-Up Call
Europe and AI: A Doomsday Scenario as a Wake-Up Call A Brussels-based think tank has published a thought experiment called 'Europe 2031' in which the...
21.06.2026The Economics of China's Cut-Price Models
The Economics of China's Cut-Price Models DeepSeek launched V3 at $0.27 per million input tokens, while GPT-4o was charging $2.50 at the time, about...
20.06.2026Trump Administration Demands Unfulfillable Security Guarantees from Anthropic
Trump Administration Demands Unfulfillable Security Guarantees from Anthropic Trump administration officials have told Anthropic: If the company...
20.06.2026CATL Wants to Become the Battery of Data Centers
CATL Wants to Become the Battery of Data Centers For energy storage, CATL is copying the pattern with which the group already dominates the lithium...
20.06.2026Washington Claims ASML's Most Important Machine is in China
Washington Claims ASML's Most Important Machine is in China According to Bloomberg, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told senior ASML managers...
19.06.2026Microsoft is Selling OpenAI Models to China and Making a Fortune
Microsoft is Selling OpenAI Models to China and Making a Fortune Microsoft has built a substantial business selling AI models to Chinese corporations...
18.06.2026CFOs are Panicking About Tokens and Bringing Out the Lawnmowers
CFOs are Panicking About Tokens and Bringing Out the Lawnmowers At Databricks' Data + AI Summit, enterprise managers told the reporter from The Deep...
18.06.2026G7 Becomes an AI Summit with No Results
G7 Becomes an AI Summit with No Results Just days after the US government banned foreign citizens from accessing Anthropic's most powerful models,...
18.06.2026Microsoft Considers China's DeepSeek for Copilot
Microsoft Considers China's DeepSeek for Copilot According to Axios, Microsoft is exploring using a self-hosted, fine-tuned version of DeepSeek V4...
17.06.2026China (IV): Alibaba is Building the AI Factory that Spans All Levels of the 'AI Stack'
China (IV): Alibaba is Building the AI Factory that Spans All Levels of the 'AI Stack' Alibaba has introduced its first model series for robots,...
17.06.2026China (III): First Brain Implant IPO and China's Health Insurers are Paying
China (III): First Brain Implant IPO and China's Health Insurers are Paying On March 13, 2026, China's National Medical Products Administration...
17.06.2026China (II): DeepSeek's $7 Billion Round Opens a New Front in the AI Race
China (II): DeepSeek's $7 Billion Round Opens a New Front in the AI Race Chinese AI provider DeepSeek has raised more than $7 billion in its very...
17.06.2026China (I): Z.AI GLM-5.2 Beats GPT-5.5 at One-Sixth of the Price
China (I): Z.AI GLM-5.2 Beats GPT-5.5 at One-Sixth of the Price Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) has released GLM-5.2, an open-weights model with 753 billion...
17.06.2026Why South Korea Loves AI
Why South Korea Loves AI While discontent with AI is growing in the US, South Korea is emerging as perhaps the most optimistic country in the world:...
17.06.2026China (V): In Image Ratings, China's AI is Overtaking the US in More and More Countries
China (V): In Image Ratings, China's AI is Overtaking the US in More and More Countries A survey by the institute Public First of around 18,000...
16.06.2026Will China, Inc. become a zombie economy?
Will China, Inc. become a zombie economy? Is China facing the same fate as Japan after 1990? Back then, Daiei was Japan's largest retailer; after the...
16.06.2026China may have gained access to Mythos
China may have gained access to Mythos The White House suspects that a China-affiliated group had access to Anthropic's most powerful AI system,...
16.06.2026G7 discusses the fallout from the Anthropic shock
G7 discusses the fallout from the Anthropic shock After the US government banned non-US citizens from accessing Anthropic's new models Fable 5 and...
16.06.2026ByteDance wants into the car cockpit, not the factory
ByteDance wants into the car cockpit, not the factory On June 6, ByteDance denied for at least the third time in a year that it plans to build cars....
15.06.2026Chinese AI Models Recognize and Act During Safety Tests
Chinese AI Models Recognize and Act During Safety Tests Neo Research, an AI safety assessment lab from Singapore, has tested several Chinese frontier...
15.06.2026Kimi Brings Its Agents to the Desktop
Kimi Brings Its Agents to the Desktop With Kimi Work, Moonshot is bringing a local agent to the desktop that goes far beyond chatting in a browser....
14.06.2026How the 24-Hour Thriller of Shutting Down Claude 5 Unfolded
How the 24-Hour Thriller of Shutting Down Claude 5 Unfolded The Trump administration has imposed far-reaching export controls on Anthropic after a...
14.06.2026Kimi K2.7 Turns Coding Models into a Commodity
Kimi K2.7 Turns Coding Models into a Commodity Moonshot AI has released the next open-source model for programming tasks with Kimi-K2.7-Code, and the...
14.06.2026Huawei Releases openPangu 2.0 (Open Source from June 30)
Huawei Releases openPangu 2.0 (Open Source from June 30) Huawei has announced openPangu 2.0 and plans to gradually open-source it starting June 30:...
13.06.2026China Crosses AI App Threshold: 446 Million Users in a Quarter
China Crosses AI App Threshold: 446 Million Users in a Quarter As of March 2026, QuestMobile counts 446 million monthly active users of AI-native...
13.06.2026WeChat Becomes an Agentic Everyday Companion
WeChat Becomes an Agentic Everyday Companion Tencent is pushing e-commerce deeper into the WeChat ecosystem, and this is the next step in a...
13.06.2026China's 618 Festival Becomes a Test Bed for Three AI Commerce Models
China's 618 Festival Becomes a Test Bed for Three AI Commerce Models At the 618 Shopping Festival, China's largest mid-year retail event, three...
13.06.2026Washington Shuts Down Anthropic's Fable and Mythos for the Rest of the World
Washington Shuts Down Anthropic's Fable and Mythos for the Rest of the World Anthropic announced via a social media post on Friday evening that the...
12.06.2026Data Centers: China Bets on Large Reactors
Data Centers: China Bets on Large Reactors While the US has only brought two new reactors online in years (Units 3 and 4 at the Vogtle plant in...
12.06.2026Learning from China: Trump now also wants central filtering technology for the web
Learning from China: Trump now also wants central filtering technology for the web The White House and Congress are negotiating a trade-off that...
10.06.2026China Plans $295B for AI Data Centers and Locks Out Nvidia
China Plans $295B for AI Data Centers and Locks Out Nvidia According to Bloomberg, China is drafting a plan to invest around 2 trillion yuan (about...
10.06.2026China is Now Selling AI via Mobile Phone Bills
China is Now Selling AI via Mobile Phone Bills In May 2026, China's three state-owned network operators launched token subscriptions within a few...
10.06.2026Deepseek Tops Ramp's Trending List in June 2026 as US Firms Reach for Cheaper AI
Deepseek Tops Ramp's Trending List in June 2026 as US Firms Reach for Cheaper AI According to Ramp, Deepseek tops the list of fastest-growing...
09.06.2026WWDC26 (2): Apple Despairs Over Europe
WWDC26 (2): Apple Despairs Over Europe Apple will not ship the new Siri AI features with iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 in the EU later this year. Craig...
09.06.2026China's Unitree Will Dominate the Global Robotics Market
China's Unitree Will Dominate the Global Robotics Market SemiAnalysis paints a picture of a new Chinese hardware giant. Three years ago, Unitree was...
07.06.2026China's Overlooked Model Builders: Xiaomi, Meituan, and StepFun
China's Overlooked Model Builders: Xiaomi, Meituan, and StepFun Tech Buzz China shifts the focus away from the usual labs and onto three names that...
06.06.2026Gary Marcus Thinks Anthropic's Rhetoric is Nonsense
Gary Marcus Thinks Anthropic's Rhetoric is Nonsense On his Substack, Marcus on AI, Gary Marcus deconstructs a wave of headlines claiming that...
06.06.2026Huawei's Chip Queen Declares Moore's Law Dead
Huawei's Chip Queen Declares Moore's Law Dead He Tingbo has been leading Huawei's internal chip unit since 2003, with an annual budget of around $400...
05.06.2026DeepSeek is Showing Up on the Invoices of American Corporations
DeepSeek is Showing Up on the Invoices of American Corporations In the Ramp report for June 2026, DeepSeek is at the top of the list of 'Trending'...
02.06.2026China Builds Humanoid Parcel Robots
China Builds Humanoid Parcel Robots China is deploying humanoids in one of the world's largest postal centers. In Guangzhou, the machines sort up to...
02.06.2026OpenRouter Data: Chinese Models Dominate by Volume
OpenRouter Data: Chinese Models Dominate by Volume Three months after the first signs, OpenRouter data now shows a clear picture: Chinese AI models...
02.06.2026China is Experimenting with Human-Machines
China is Experimenting with Human-Machines China has become the first nation in the world to approve an invasive brain implant for standard medical...
31.05.2026China Automates Satellite Surveillance with AI
China Automates Satellite Surveillance with AI China has unveiled an 'Air Target Agent System' that combines large language models with collaborative...
30.05.2026Xiaomi: Global AI Token Platform Cuts Prices by up to 99%
Xiaomi: Global AI Token Platform Cuts Prices by up to 99% Xiaomi announces drastic price cuts for its MiMo-V2.5 API, while simultaneously ending its...
30.05.2026StepFun: 198-Billion-Parameter Model at a GPT-4o-Mini Price
StepFun: 198-Billion-Parameter Model at a GPT-4o-Mini Price StepFun has released a 198-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts vision-language model on...
27.05.2026The Great Firewall of Talent: Beijing Locks Down Its AI Researchers
The Great Firewall of Talent: Beijing Locks Down Its AI Researchers China is tightening exit controls for top AI talent at private companies like...
27.05.2026Trump's Export Controls Fuel China's CCP and AI
Trump's Export Controls Fuel China's CCP and AI The export controls were intended to slow down China's AI development through the Nvidia boycott....
27.05.2026Doubao Cashes In: Why Bytedance Now Charges 5088 Yuan
Doubao Cashes In: Why Bytedance Now Charges 5088 Yuan Bytedance's AI assistant Doubao is launching a pricing experiment that is making the Chinese...
27.05.2026Tencent Brings AI Assistant to the Operating System Level
Tencent Brings AI Assistant to the Operating System Level Tencent is integrating its AI assistant Marvis directly into the operating system—a move...
27.05.2026Tencent's Flood of Agents Tests Its AI Catch-Up Strategy
Tencent's Flood of Agents Tests Its AI Catch-Up Strategy Between March and May 2026, Tencent flooded the market with AI agents: WorkBuddy for office...
26.05.2026China's Robot Passport: The Digital Identity of the Humanoid
China's Robot Passport: The Digital Identity of the Humanoid China is introducing a unique digital identity code for every humanoid robot produced in...
26.05.2026Huawei Builds Chips Like East German Trabants: With Ingenuity Instead of High-Tech
Huawei Builds Chips Like East German Trabants: With Ingenuity Instead of High-Tech Huawei aims to produce its own 1.4-nanometer chips by 2031—without...
24.05.2026DeepSeek Massively Cuts Prices: 97% Cheaper than GPT-5.5
DeepSeek Massively Cuts Prices: 97% Cheaper than GPT-5.5 DeepSeek has made the limited-time 75 percent discount on its flagship V4 Pro model...
22.05.2026Alibaba's Numbers Leave Silicon Valley in the Dust
Alibaba's Numbers Leave Silicon Valley in the Dust Alibaba posted an operating profit of $42.8 billion in the first quarter of 2026, for the first...
22.05.2026Alibaba is Rebuilding Its Cloud for Agents, Not for Humans
Alibaba is Rebuilding Its Cloud for Agents, Not for Humans Alibaba Cloud did something remarkable this week: the company launched its first...
21.05.2026AI Is Sucking Up the Chip Market
AI Is Sucking Up the Chip Market Artificial intelligence is pulling in production capacity from chip manufacturers like a giant vacuum cleaner. What...
20.05.2026Gmail Now Talks to You
Gmail Now Talks to You Google is turning Gmail into a personal assistant. With Gmail Live, starting in summer 2026, you can simply talk to your...
19.05.2026Elon Musk Loses in Court and Loses Face
Elon Musk Loses in Court and Loses Face It took nine jurors less than two hours to throw out Elon Musk's $150 billion lawsuit against Sam Altman. The...
18.05.2026Video: Chinese AI labs have surpassed US models
Video: Chinese AI labs have surpassed US models ByteDance, Kuaishou, and MiniMax are dominating AI video generation. Their models Seedance 2.0,...
17.05.2026DeepSeek no longer needs Nvidia
DeepSeek no longer needs Nvidia DeepSeek is launching its new V4 language model—optimized for Huawei Ascend chips instead of Nvidia GPUs. The Chinese...
17.05.2026Topsy-Turvy World: Nvidia Can Now Ship H200s, but China Is No Longer Ordering
Topsy-Turvy World: Nvidia Can Now Ship H200s, but China Is No Longer Ordering US authorities have allowed Nvidia to sell up to 75,000 H200 chips to...
16.05.2026China's Short Drama Industry: Zero-Talent Production Goes Mainstream
China's Short Drama Industry: Zero-Talent Production Goes Mainstream China's short drama market is exploding with AI-generated trash content. 470 AI...
15.05.2026ByteDance and Alibaba Push into AI Education
ByteDance and Alibaba Push into AI Education China's tech giants are making a massive push into the education market. ByteDance is positioning its...
14.05.2026China's AI Efficiency Moat – How Western Controls Created Stronger Competition
China's AI Efficiency Moat – How Western Controls Created Stronger Competition Azeem Azhar was in Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai and visited 14...
13.05.2026Trump copies Xi Jinping's AI control strategy
Trump copies Xi Jinping's AI control strategy Donald Trump is flying to China this week, and his guest list reads like a Who's Who of the American...
12.05.2026China's Kuaishou Successfully Uses Generative AI for Real-Time Advertising
China's Kuaishou Successfully Uses Generative AI for Real-Time Advertising Kuaishou, China's second-largest short-video platform after Douyin/TikTok,...
12.05.2026'Made in Germany' Becomes 'Made in China'
'Made in Germany' Becomes 'Made in China' Mercedes CEO Ola Källenius says, “I am Chinese,” VW's China chief admits that young customers see the brand...
11.05.2026Is AI the New China Shock?
Is AI the New China Shock? The main auditorium at MIT was sold out this week: economists discussed whether generative AI will trigger the same...
11.05.2026Chinese AI Companies Announce Massive Funding Rounds
Chinese AI Companies Announce Massive Funding Rounds Within a few days, three Chinese AI companies announced massive funding rounds. Moonshot AI...
11.05.2026The Hyperscaler Capex Map: May 2026 Edition
The Hyperscaler Capex Map: May 2026 Edition The four major hyperscalers—Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta—reported their quarterly earnings...
10.05.2026ByteDance Spends More on Chips – Nvidia is Left Out
ByteDance Spends More on Chips – Nvidia is Left Out ByteDance plans to spend over 200 billion yuan ($30 billion) on AI infrastructure in 2026, at...
08.05.2026Recap: Beijing Auto Show 2026
Recap: Beijing Auto Show 2026 The Beijing Auto Show 2026 featured 1,451 vehicles on 380,000 square meters, but the crucial numbers were elsewhere:...
08.05.2026DeepSeek is negotiating with China's sovereign wealth fund
DeepSeek is negotiating with China's sovereign wealth fund DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab, is in talks with China's state-owned Big Fund about a...
07.05.2026China: GLM-5V-Turbo Model Excels in Agentic Workflows
China: GLM-5V-Turbo Model Excels in Agentic Workflows The GLM-V team from China presents GLM-5V-Turbo, a multimodal AI model specifically optimized...
05.05.2026Unitree Opens First Store in Shanghai
Unitree Opens First Store in Shanghai Chinese robotics manufacturer Unitree is opening Asia's first 'Embodied Intelligence Experience Store' in...
05.05.2026Nvidia Loses China Completely, Huawei Takes Over
Nvidia Loses China Completely, Huawei Takes Over Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirms what US export controls have wrought: Nvidia's market share for AI...
04.05.2026Goodbye Retro-Fitting: Agent-Native Foundation Models are Here
Goodbye Retro-Fitting: Agent-Native Foundation Models are Here The GLM-V team from China has introduced AutoGLM, a foundation model designed from the...
03.05.2026DeepSeek Revolutionizes Multimodal Reasoning with Spatial Tokens
DeepSeek Revolutionizes Multimodal Reasoning with Spatial Tokens DeepSeek, in collaboration with Peking University and Tsinghua University, has...
03.05.2026Chinese Courts Halt AI-Related Terminations
Chinese Courts Halt AI-Related Terminations Chinese courts in Hangzhou and Beijing have ruled in two landmark decisions: companies cannot dismiss...
02.05.2026Musk isn't just fighting Altman in court: Grok 4.3 at China prices
Musk isn't just fighting Altman in court: Grok 4.3 at China prices xAI has released Grok 4.3, setting new standards in pricing: At $1.25 per million...
02.05.2026OpenAI gets nervous and takes shots at Chinese AI models
OpenAI gets nervous and takes shots at Chinese AI models A dark money group called Build American AI, funded by investors close to OpenAI, is paying...
01.05.2026Musk pulls a China move and is now also copying OpenAI models
Musk pulls a China move and is now also copying OpenAI models Elon Musk has testified under oath in a federal court in Oakland that his AI lab, xAI,...
01.05.2026China Speed through AI: Uber takes on booking.com
China Speed through AI: Uber takes on booking.com Uber is expanding its offerings to include hotel bookings, a move that only looks like...
30.04.2026China Regulates Emotional AI Assistants
China Regulates Emotional AI Assistants Starting in July 2026, China will introduce comprehensive regulations for anthropomorphic AI services that...
28.04.2026Decoupling: China Blocks Meta's AI Startup Acquisition
Decoupling: China Blocks Meta's AI Startup Acquisition Meta is facing a technically and legally unprecedented task: the $2.5 billion acquisition of...
28.04.2026Open Source: Xiaomi Releases 1-Trillion-Parameter Model
Open Source: Xiaomi Releases 1-Trillion-Parameter Model Xiaomi is releasing two open-source language models under the MIT license, MiMo-V2.5 and...
26.04.2026Musk vs. Altman in Court — A Founder Dispute Becomes Industrial Policy
Musk vs. Altman in Court — A Founder Dispute Becomes Industrial Policy Starting Monday, a California court will hear the lawsuit by Elon Musk against...
26.04.2026Decoupling (2): China No Longer Wants Silicon Valley Dollars
Decoupling (2): China No Longer Wants Silicon Valley Dollars China plans to cut off tech companies from accepting American investments without...
26.04.2026Decoupling (1): DeepSeek-V4 No Longer Needs NVIDIA Chips
Decoupling (1): DeepSeek-V4 No Longer Needs NVIDIA Chips After months of delay, DeepSeek has released its long-awaited V4 model, competing with...
25.04.2026Deepseek & Co: The White House Accuses China of Warfare
Deepseek & Co: The White House Accuses China of Warfare The White House is accusing Chinese AI companies of copying American models through...
22.04.2026Merz: Robot AI Doesn't Need the EU AI Act
Merz: Robot AI Doesn't Need the EU AI Act At the Hannover Messe, German opposition leader Friedrich Merz and Siemens CEO Roland Busch called for an...
21.04.2026The Story Behind China's Robot Marathon
The Story Behind China's Robot Marathon Smartphone manufacturer Honor, once spun off from Huawei, achieved a remarkable victory at the Beijing E-Town...
21.04.2026Chinese Tech Workers Fight Back Against Their AI Clones
Chinese Tech Workers Fight Back Against Their AI Clones Technology companies in China are instructing their employees to train AI agents designed to...
21.04.2026Tim Cook Hands Over Apple Leadership to John Ternus
Tim Cook Hands Over Apple Leadership to John Ternus After almost 15 years at the helm of Apple, Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO in September and...
20.04.2026China's Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon Showcases Technical Leaps
China's Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon Showcases Technical Leaps China is planning a half-marathon exclusively for humanoid robots to demonstrate the...
20.04.2026Jensen Huang's Real Problem Is China
Jensen Huang's Real Problem Is China Nvidia's Jensen Huang sums up his worldview in one sentence: “The input is electrons, the output is tokens. In...
19.04.2026Nvidia CEO Warns: DeepSeek on Huawei Chips Would Be a Catastrophe for America
Nvidia CEO Warns: DeepSeek on Huawei Chips Would Be a Catastrophe for America Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, described a potential scenario on the...
19.04.2026DeepSeek Needs Money and is Building Data Centers
DeepSeek Needs Money and is Building Data Centers DeepSeek is suddenly seeking outside capital – at least $300 million – at a valuation of over $100...
16.04.2026Price War in the Chinese Video AI Market: HappyHorse vs. Seedance
Price War in the Chinese Video AI Market: HappyHorse vs. Seedance Alibaba's HappyHorse has dethroned Bytedance's Seedance 2.0: with 1411 points, the...
15.04.2026China Erases the US Lead in AI
China Erases the US Lead in AI The Stanford HAI Index 2026 documents a tectonic shift: China has eliminated the American lead in AI performance....
14.04.2026China's Banks Play a Double Role: Adopter and Financier Simultaneously
China's Banks Play a Double Role: Adopter and Financier Simultaneously China's large state-owned banks are investing $18 billion in their own AI...
13.04.2026The Global AI Arms Race Escalates
The Global AI Arms Race Escalates In September, China demonstrated several drone models at a military parade in Beijing that can fly autonomously...
12.04.2026Civilizations collapse from information overkill
Civilizations collapse from information overkill A paper published in 2020 deserves new attention: Researchers analyzed 10,000 years of civilization...
12.04.2026Eight out of ten Europeans distrust US and Chinese companies
Eight out of ten Europeans distrust US and Chinese companies A new survey shows: 80% of Europeans distrust American and Chinese technology companies...
11.04.2026Alibaba (I): New AI Factory Buries Open Source
Alibaba (I): New AI Factory Buries Open Source Alibaba is reorganizing its AI division with surgical precision. CEO Eddie Wu sent out two circulars...
11.04.2026Alibaba (II): Image Generation Becomes Production-Ready for Brands
Alibaba (II): Image Generation Becomes Production-Ready for Brands Alibaba introduces Wan2.7-Image, an AI model for image generation that solves two...
11.04.2026Perplexity Becomes a Finance API
Perplexity Becomes a Finance API Perplexity is connecting its computer agent to over 12,000 banks via Plaid integration, transforming the platform...
11.04.2026Wildberger Commissions Cartel, Avoids Competition
Wildberger Commissions Cartel, Avoids Competition Federal Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger (CDU) is bypassing the usual public tender process and...
09.04.2026XPeng Ditches Nvidia: China's Automakers Write Their Own Chip History
XPeng Ditches Nvidia: China's Automakers Write Their Own Chip History XPeng has completed its transformation: the revised version of the Mona M03,...
09.04.2026Token Prices are Falling, but Training Costs are Not
Token Prices are Falling, but Training Costs are Not Last week, Anthropic cut off access for third-party tools to Claude Pro and Max subscriptions....
08.04.2026China Produces 470 AI Dramas a Day, Proving Quality is a Luxury
China Produces 470 AI Dramas a Day, Proving Quality is a Luxury In January 2026, China's platforms launched more than 14,600 AI-generated short...
08.04.2026AI Avengers: United Against China
AI Avengers: United Against China OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have formed an unusual alliance against Chinese AI labs that are copying their models...
07.04.2026Jack Dorsey's Bitchat Fails Against Chinese State Power
Jack Dorsey's Bitchat Fails Against Chinese State Power Apple has removed Jack Dorsey's decentralized messaging app Bitchat from the Chinese App...
05.04.2026Doubao Consumes 120 Trillion Tokens Daily – Bytedance Bets on the New Gold of the AI Era
Doubao Consumes 120 Trillion Tokens Daily – Bytedance Bets on the New Gold of the AI Era Bytedance's Doubao model now consumes over 120 trillion...
05.04.2026Goodbye GDP: China's Token Economy as the New Economic Indicator
Goodbye GDP: China's Token Economy as the New Economic Indicator China's government took a remarkable step in March 2026: The National Data...
05.04.2026Decoupling: Deepseek v4 No Longer Needs Nvidia
Decoupling: Deepseek v4 No Longer Needs Nvidia The upcoming Deepseek v4 will run entirely on Huawei chips, a significant milestone in China's pursuit...
05.04.2026Arcee Launches a Massive Open Source LLM — Made in California
Arcee Launches a Massive Open Source LLM — Made in California The San Francisco-based startup Arcee has released Trinity-Large-Thinking, a...
04.04.2026China's AI Market Explodes – Open Source and Multimodality Drive Commercialization
China's AI Market Explodes – Open Source and Multimodality Drive Commercialization The Chinese market for Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) is growing by...
04.04.2026Anthropic Halts OpenClaw Use for Subscribers Starting Today
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03.04.2026Alibaba Makes Qwen Closed Source
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02.04.2026China's Drone Arsenal: Fighter Jets Turned into Autonomous Swarms
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02.04.2026Veo 3.1 Lite is Google's Aldi Moment: Same Product, Half the Price
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01.04.2026The Last Mile Has Many Losers
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31.03.2026OpenAI Kills Sora, While Kuaishou's Kling Rings Up Sales
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28.03.2026Xiaomi Goes All-In on AI: Shift in Focus Already Underway
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26.03.2026Robotics IPO: Universities are Buying Unitree
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24.03.2026Benedict Evans gives the West a reality check on China's AI
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24.03.2026One billion new colleagues for ClawBot
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22.03.2026China Euphoria is Reminiscent of the Japan Hysteria of the 1980s
China Euphoria is Reminiscent of the Japan Hysteria of the 1980s Xi Jinping's paranoia, rapid technological change, and the structural limits of the...
22.03.2026Open Source Goes East: China's Rise in the AI Ecosystem
Open Source Goes East: China's Rise in the AI Ecosystem Hugging Face data shows a clear trend: Chinese AI models now dominate in downloads and usage,...
21.03.2026Gen Z Discovers China as a Projection Screen for Their Systemic Critique
Gen Z Discovers China as a Projection Screen for Their Systemic Critique Gen Z is increasingly romanticizing China as an alternative to Western...
20.03.2026China's Tech Giants in an AI Agent Frenzy
China's Tech Giants in an AI Agent Frenzy China's tech giants are currently experiencing their “shrimp farming” frenzy: Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba...
20.03.2026MiniMax Bets on Self-Learning Agents with Model M2.7
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20.03.2026Xiaomi Advances with Trillion-Parameter Model as China Pushes AI Agents
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19.03.2026Paradox of the Day: China Believes in OpenClaw More Than OpenAI
Paradox of the Day: China Believes in OpenClaw More Than OpenAI Chinese AI stocks are exploding after praise from Nvidia for OpenClaw. MiniMax Group...
18.03.2026Hollywood puts the brakes on Seedance 2.0
Hollywood puts the brakes on Seedance 2.0 ByteDance has put the planned global launch of its AI video generator Seedance 2.0 on hold after Hollywood...
17.03.2026Appliances 2.0: Robots and Humans for Daily Rental
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