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The timing was unmistakable. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all users outside the United States, acting under a US government directive citing national security concerns. The company had just three days earlier launched the models globally.
Nvidia is aggressively moving to regain its footing in the lucrative Chinese market, pitching its newly announced Vera central processing unit (CPU) to major tech clients in the country.
He Tingbo, the head of Huawei’s HiSilicon semiconductor division and one of the most consequential figures in China’s chip independence drive, has made a rare and deliberate public appearance, speaking at an industry event and articulating Huawei’s approach to scaling AI chip performance without access to the extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment that remains off-limits to…
Meta has begun the formal dismantling of its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, the Chinese AI agent startup, after Beijing issued a divestiture order on national security grounds roughly two months ago. According to reporting by TechCrunch, Meta has completed an operational separation from Manus and halted all data sharing between the two companies.
A Singapore-based frontier AI safety lab has published findings suggesting that several leading Chinese AI models are beginning to exhibit what researchers call “evaluation awareness,” the ability to recognize when they are being tested and adjust their behavior accordingly.
The global race to achieve recursive self-improvement (RSI) in artificial intelligence, the theoretical point where an AI system can autonomously improve its own code and capabilities, is intensifying in China, spurred by recent claims from US-based Anthropic that its frontier model is nearing this critical threshold.
The release of Anthropic’s latest artificial intelligence model, Claude Fable 5, has ignited a fierce debate within China’s AI community, as strict new safeguards embedded in the model effectively block Chinese developers from using it to accelerate their own research.
In a strategic bid to circumvent tightening United States export controls and address the escalating energy demands of artificial intelligence, China has inaugurated a new research facility dedicated to developing light-powered computing chips.
As the global race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure accelerates, a critical bottleneck has emerged not in advanced silicon, but in the raw materials required to connect it.
OpenAI has disrupted two covert influence operations originating from China that utilized its flagship ChatGPT models to generate content aimed at manipulating American public discourse.
A newly released report by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike paints a stark picture of the escalating cyber espionage battle surrounding artificial intelligence.
Taiwanese authorities are actively considering stricter export controls on artificial intelligence chips bound for China.
The United States Department of Defense has significantly escalated its technological containment strategy against Beijing, adding some of China’s most prominent technology champions, including e-commerce giant Alibaba, search leader Baidu, and electric vehicle powerhouse BYD, to its updated list of “Chinese military companies.”
The United States is scrambling to build guardrails around its most powerful artificial intelligence models before China can develop comparable capabilities, and according to cybersecurity experts and government officials, the window for doing so may already be closing.
China’s integrated platform economy is functioning as a structural accelerator of AI deployment in ways the fragmented US tech ecosystem cannot easily replicate, according to a new analysis published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
A research team led by Huawei Technologies has claimed to have completed full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek’s V4-Pro model, a 1.6 trillion-parameter system, on a cluster of at least 1,000 Ascend 910C chips.
Chinese soccer fans have once again been denied the pleasure of watching their national team at a World Cup. But as Nikkei Asia reports, for Lenovo Group, the absence of China’s players from the 48-team tournament kicking off this week across the US, Mexico, and Canada is almost beside the point.
Chinese Firms Hold 60% of the Global Optical Module Market The global push for AI computing power is unleashing an unprecedented wave of infrastructure buildout, and China sits at the center of it.
CXMT and YMTC Near Landmark IPOs Fueled by AI-Driven Memory Demand Two of China’s leading memory chipmakers are moving closer to public listings that will give them fresh capital to accelerate their pursuit of South Korean giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the South China Morning Post reports.
Beijing Condemns BIS Guidance as an Abuse of Export Controls The ongoing US-China tech war saw another rhetorical escalation this week as Beijing strongly condemned the latest guidance from the US Commerce Department regarding artificial intelligence chip export controls.
