China’s Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC) has established a dedicated Low-Altitude Safety Department to oversee the safety and commercial development of the country’s low-altitude airspace, according to announcements by the CAAC and Xinhua.
Peking University’s MedSeek, described as China’s first large language model specifically dedicated to medical education, took center stage at the 2026 World Digital Education Conference (WDEC) in Hangzhou this week.
The United States has granted approximately 10 Chinese companies authorization to purchase Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence chips, yet not a single delivery has reached any of them. The approved buyers include Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com.
Shanghai Chafu Robot Co. has set a new Guinness World Record for “Strongest Industrial Robot (Load Capacity)” with its CR5000-3700, certified at a maximum load of 5,000.36 kilograms.
When an official news program on state-run Hunan Economic Television took to the air on May 6, the tension between artificiality and authenticity was on full display. As two AI-generated anchors named Sheng Sheng and Shuang Shuang read out the news, a message appeared in the corner of the screen: “content not [AI] generated.”
Chinese chip designer Loongson Technology has shipped more than 1 million units of its flagship 3A6000 desktop processor, marking a milestone for China’s efforts to build a self-sufficient semiconductor industry and move domestic central processing units beyond basic usability toward broader commercial adoption.
Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings reported quarterly earnings within hours of each other on May 13, and both missed revenue expectations. Both saw their US-traded shares rise anyway.
The global AI boom is producing an unexpected side effect: a shortage of mature-node semiconductors and a surge in orders flowing to Chinese foundries to fill the gap.
Kuaishou Technology is planning to spin off its Kling AI video generation unit at a valuation of $20 billion and raise approximately $2 billion in a pre-IPO financing round, according to reports by Chinese technology outlet LatePost and The Information, both published Monday.
Anthropic chose a pointed moment to publish its most explicit policy intervention to date.
The high-stakes meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week ended without any progress on one of the most consequential issues in the US-China technology rivalry: semiconductor export controls.
