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China’s National Development and Reform Commission released its second batch of major projects for 2026 on April 21, directing proceeds from the country’s ultra-long special treasury bonds toward a range of infrastructure investments, including artificial intelligence infrastructure as a named priority category, according to reporting from China Daily and AAStocks.
China’s Supreme People’s Court announced on April 20 that it is actively drafting guidelines for the adjudication of disputes involving artificial intelligence, a development that signals the Chinese legal system is moving to formalize its approach to AI-related litigation at the highest judicial level.
The Rise of the Zero-Employee Startup In a radical departure from the traditional venture capital model that prioritizes rapid headcount growth, China is actively subsidizing a new breed of entrepreneurship: the one-person AI startup.
The delicate balance of international scientific collaboration in artificial intelligence was severely tested late last month. The Wire China reports how NeurIPS, one of the world’s most prestigious machine learning conferences, effectively shut its doors to several prominent Chinese institutions.
When AI Anxiety Meets the Property Market In the United States and India, the link between AI-driven job fears and declining housing market sentiment has become a documented phenomenon. Surveys show that workers in technology and white-collar sectors are delaying home purchases, prioritizing liquid savings, and expressing reduced confidence in long-term financial commitments.
Guangdong Province has been quietly building the infrastructure for what may become China’s most consequential industrial cluster in embodied artificial intelligence.
Who Is Datouzhen? China’s Draft Digital Human Rules Aim to Answer That Question The question “is this person real?” has become unexpectedly difficult to answer on Chinese social media. Datouzhen, an online singer who started releasing covers on Douyin in late 2025, attracted 800,000 followers in two months, without ever showing his face.
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has officially moved from the realm of technology policy to the center of global macroeconomic strategy.
A sweeping U.S. legislative effort to tighten the noose around China’s semiconductor industry has been significantly scaled back following intense pushback from the global chipmaking equipment industry. The “MATCH Act” (Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware Act), introduced in early April, originally aimed to force allies to align with U.S.
The technological rivalry between the United States and China has entered a new phase, moving beyond hardware export controls to directly target the software and data practices of foreign artificial intelligence developers. Bloomberg reports that U.S.
In a sweeping move to future-proof its workforce and maintain its competitive edge in the global technology race, China has unveiled a comprehensive national action plan to build an artificial intelligence literacy system.
In a significant shift in the global narrative surrounding AI, leading experts have testified before the UK Parliament that China is increasingly acting as the responsible global citizen regarding AI governance, while the United States pursues a dangerous, profit-driven “wild west” approach.
China has unveiled an ambitious national strategy to embed artificial intelligence (AI) education into its entire educational spectrum, from primary schools to higher education institutions.
The chairmen of several of China’s largest battery and solar energy companies have taken the unusual step of publicly calling for top-down government intervention to address a deepening overcapacity crisis that threatens the sector’s financial viability.
William Li Makes the Case for Standardization at Nio’s Annual Event Nio CEO William Li used the company’s annual NIO Day event this week to call for industry-wide standardization of electric vehicle batteries and AI chips, arguing that the current proliferation of proprietary standards is imposing enormous and unnecessary costs on the entire EV ecosystem.…
China’s central government has issued a directive ordering all state-funded data centers to cease procurement of foreign AI chips and to begin phasing out existing Nvidia and AMD hardware, according to reports from Reuters and CNBC.
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange has published a consultation paper proposing to halve the minimum market capitalization threshold for companies seeking to list with weighted voting rights (WVR ) structures, as reported by the South China Morning Post, a reform that would significantly lower the bar for AI startups, biotech companies, and other innovative firms…
Tencent’s WeChat, China’s dominant social platform with over 1.3 billion monthly active users, has updated its content rules to explicitly ban AI-generated and algorithmically mass-produced posts.
Chinese state media has deployed a new weapon in the information war: AI-generated animation videos mocking US military performance in the Iran conflict.
Chinese cyberspace authorities have carried out their first large-scale enforcement action under the country’s AI-generated content labeling rules, penalizing 13,421 online accounts and ordering the removal of 543,000 pieces of content across major platforms.
