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Cambricon Technologies, a leading Chinese artificial intelligence chip designer, has unveiled an ambitious new revenue target that underscores the explosive growth of the domestic semiconductor market. The Shanghai-listed company has set a goal of generating more than 100 billion yuan (US$14.8 billion) in cumulative revenue over the next three years.
Chinese military researchers have been utilizing outputs from leading US artificial intelligence models, including those developed by OpenAI and Anthropic, to train domestic AI systems aimed at advancing China’s defense capabilities.
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) made history on July 27, 2026, when its initial public offering on the Shanghai STAR Market raised 57.92 billion yuan ($11 billion). The debut instantly catapulted the Hefei-based memory chipmaker to a valuation of 3.65 trillion yuan, making it China’s most valuable listed company.
The global reach of Chinese artificial intelligence continues to expand, often through strategic partnerships rather than direct confrontation. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model is now available on Microsoft’s Azure Foundry platform, facilitated by inference engine provider Fireworks AI.
The geopolitical battle over artificial intelligence has reached the doorstep of American enterprise. Two prominent U.S. House committees have formally requested information from food delivery giant DoorDash regarding its use of Kimi K2.6, a Chinese AI model developed by Beijing-based Moonshot AI.
The global artificial intelligence price war has entered a decisive new phase. On July 30, OpenAI announced an 80% price reduction for its lightweight GPT-5.6 Luna model, cutting the API cost to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens.
The United States risks losing the global artificial intelligence race to China not because of a lack of innovation or capital, but because of bureaucratic red tape.
Beijing has responded to the US Federal Communications Commission’s sweeping ban on Chinese robot imports with a sharp diplomatic warning, vowing “resolute retaliation” and signaling that the trade dispute is set to escalate further.
The escalating technology war between the United States and China has found a new flashpoint in the cloud.
The recent decision by the United States to ban the import of new foreign-made advanced robots is sending shockwaves through China’s world-leading robotics sector.
China’s Ministry of Commerce has officially threatened to retaliate against the United States following the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) sudden ban on the import of new foreign-made advanced robots and power inverters.
China now dominates the global humanoid robot start-up landscape by the most rigorous measure available, patent quality, with six Chinese firms ranked among the world’s ten most innovative humanoid robot companies, according to a new LexisNexis analysis published Tuesday.
Washington’s new AI Spark initiative to promote American artificial intelligence systems in Southeast Asia’s public services and digital infrastructure is seen as a move to counter the region’s deepening partnerships with Chinese firms in the deployment of the technology, according to analysts cited by the South China Morning Post.
The US government will award $300 million to chipmaker GlobalFoundries to bolster research and development of silicon photonics, a technology increasingly viewed as essential for the future of AI infrastructure, according to an announcement on Wednesday.
Huawei is planning to begin mass production of a cutting-edge glass substrate by 2027 to elevate the performance of its Ascend AI chips, according to a new report from DigiTimes.
The US government should not block Chinese artificial intelligence in an attempt to gain the upper hand in the race to develop the groundbreaking technology, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has told the Financial Times.
Micron Technology’s stock has shed more than 30% from its all-time high in the weeks since it reported the most impressive quarterly results in its 47-year history, a paradox that became harder to explain on Wednesday morning, when a semiconductor analyst told CNBC that the Chinese chipmaker driving the selloff is still two to three…
China is executing a sophisticated new geopolitical strategy dubbed “token diplomacy,” leveraging its rapidly advancing open-source artificial intelligence models to build influence and technological reliance across the Global South.
The global race for artificial intelligence supremacy is increasingly being fought on the talent front, and China is making significant gains. As HR Asia reports, Chinese tech giants are aggressively poaching top AI researchers from Silicon Valley, capitalizing on U.S. immigration uncertainty and the restrictive environment created by American chip export controls.
Amidst a fierce debate in Silicon Valley over the future of open-source artificial intelligence, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has publicly clarified his company’s position, pushing back against accusations that the frontier lab is seeking a blanket ban on open-weight models.
