Zhihu plans to commit 1.5 billion yuan to an AI-focused private-equity fund, a move that would give the Chinese question-and-answer platform a limited-partner position in early- and mid-stage technology investments. The proposal is disclosed in a Hong Kong Stock Exchange filing and remains subject to shareholder approval.
Shenzhen HQVT Technology will become eligible for mainland investor access through Hong Kong Stock Connect after entering the Hang Seng Composite Index on September 7.
Bilibili’s first AI Creation Open has offered a large-scale snapshot of how generative tools are changing who can build digital products in China. The company said its competition received more than 30,000 submissions from 13,400 creators, with more than 80 percent of participants working alone.
A Guangzhou district is testing whether the digital exhaust of an AI business can help it qualify for a bank loan. Haizhu District has introduced Token Loan, a financial product that uses token consumption, API-call records, computing-power contracts, and receivables as evidence when banks assess credit for asset-light AI companies.
Doctors at the Sixth Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital have reported using an AI-powered ultrasound robot to guide a transcatheter procedure for congenital heart disease, an advance that places imaging, planning, and navigation inside a single robotic workflow.
China’s Ministry of Public Security has launched a new anti-scam service built around large language models, multimodal AI, and agent technologies, expanding the country’s use of artificial intelligence in public-facing fraud prevention.
HuaYan Robotics will enter Hong Kong Stock Connect on September 7, giving mainland investors a direct route to trade the Hong Kong-listed robotics company just days after it announced a new embodied-intelligence control platform.
Researchers at one of China’s leading defense-technology universities have proposed reshaping a graduate AI course around combat scenarios and uncrewed warfare, a sign of how military education is adapting to the country’s wider interest in intelligent operations.
China’s largest technology companies are preparing to spend much more on AI infrastructure, but a new Moody’s analysis reported by the South China Morning Post argues that the country will still trail the United States by a wide margin in absolute capital expenditure and data-center power.
A newly published New York Times investigation has renewed scrutiny of how a Chinese technology group that appears on a U.S. trade blacklist remained connected to supplies of advanced American computing equipment.
