Building an AI agent is now relatively easy. Making one useful inside a real company is the harder part. Huawei Cloud is using that gap between a convincing demo and a dependable workplace tool as the center of its latest agentic-AI pitch.
A reported lawsuit in Zhejiang is putting an unusual form of AI reliance before a local court: a family’s use of a chatbot to choose an auspicious burial date. The case should not be treated as proof that a chatbot caused a later tragedy, or as a ruling that an AI provider is liable.
China’s listed-company earnings picture is improving in the aggregate, but the gains remain sharply uneven. A Nikkei Asia review of roughly 5,400 companies on mainland exchanges, excluding financial firms, found first-half net profit of about 1.9 trillion yuan, or US$283 billion, up 22% year on year.
Huawei has set out a campus-networking update aimed at workplaces where multiple AI agents, employee devices, business applications, and physical spaces must operate across the same network. The company calls the product the Stellar AI Campus Network Solution and says it combines superfast wireless, full-scope security, and network autonomy.
Artificial intelligence could strengthen China’s productive capacity while leaving a longstanding weakness in domestic demand unresolved, according to Huang Yiping, a Peking University professor and expert member of the People’s Bank of China Monetary Policy Committee. The significance of his warning lies in its institutional setting and its limits.
China has pushed back on calls from U.S. technology leaders to slow the advance of frontier AI, while publicly insisting that rapid development and safety governance must proceed together. The issue gained a new pre-summit frame in a September 18 Nikkei Asia report, published days before the expected Trump-Xi meeting.
Artificial intelligence has entered the immediate pre-summit conversation between Washington and Beijing, but only as a reported agenda item, not as an announced agreement. U.S.
