A new drama created with generative AI has started streaming on Mango TV and airing in Hunan TV’s prime-time schedule, bringing an AIGC production into a mainstream television setting rather than limiting it to a technology demonstration or short online clip.
iFlytek has opened two smaller AI models aimed at edge deployment while outlining a larger release for later this month, a move that places vehicle systems, smart hardware, and connected devices at the center of its product strategy.
China’s transportation authorities are turning the broad idea of “AI plus transportation” into a large list of practical tests across roads, railways, waterways, aviation, ports, and postal networks.
Beijing Kling Technology, Kuaishou’s generative-video subsidiary, has brought in two additional investors: the state-backed China AI Fund and CP Robot, which the filing identifies as Charoen Pokphand Robot. The development deepens its connection to industrial-policy capital as it builds its video-AI business.
Baidu’s transition from an internet-search company to an AI business is reaching a new financial test. Chief Financial Officer Henry He says the company’s AI-related operations could soon produce margins comparable to its legacy search business, an assertion that turns a familiar strategic promise into a measurable profitability question.
China has revised its National Defense Mobilization Law for the first time in 16 years, creating a new legal frame for bringing advanced technology, specialized talent, and market entities into national-defense preparations.
A U.S. House subcommittee has advanced a bill that would make government support for American open-weight artificial intelligence models an explicit response to Chinese competition. The proposal, the Open-Source AI Leadership Act, would ask the Commerce Department to identify barriers to U.S.
Z.ai has reported a sharp first-half revenue increase as its cloud and application-programming-interface business expands, providing a fresh look at how a Chinese foundation-model company is trying to convert usage into sales.
Beijing robotics company Galbot is launching its first outlets outside mainland China with three humanoid-operated convenience stores in Hong Kong. South China Morning Post reported on August 31 that the stores, following an opening ceremony, were scheduled to launch on September 1 in Hung Hom, Kai Tak, and Wan Chai.
Huatai Securities is extending artificial intelligence across investment research, investment banking, trading, wealth advice, compliance, risk management, and corporate decision-making. In its August 28 results release, shared through Media OutReach, the Chinese brokerage described an “ALL IN AI” strategy that treats AI as enterprise infrastructure rather than as a single customer-facing feature.
Chinese robot makers are targeting Europe’s lawn-care market as U.S. regulatory uncertainty threatens a major growth opportunity. Nikkei Asia reported on August 31 that Segway owner Ninebot, vacuum-cleaner makers including Roborock, and startups are preparing new robotic lawn-mower products for IFA Berlin, which begins September 4.
Shanghai Aether Heart Technology has completed a seed financing round worth tens of millions of yuan for its AI-agent infrastructure work. Shanghai Securities News reported on August 30 that the investors include Shanghai Angel Association, Pudong Venture Capital, Gaoxin Capital, and Angel Qingfen.
Tencent Cloud and Elastic have expanded their collaboration around a technology problem that sits behind many enterprise AI projects: how to retrieve reliable internal information for a model or agent.
China’s first national standard focused on the relationship between human and intelligent customer service took effect on September 1. The official National Standard Information Public Service Platform lists GB/T 47746-2026 as the national standard governing the coordination of live and intelligent customer-support channels, released on May 25 and effective from September 1.
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has set an explicit target for the businesses that turn AI tools into working industry deployments.
A new Chinese action plan places artificial intelligence inside the country’s special-education agenda for 2026 through 2030.
Reuters reported on August 31 that ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, has begun making HBM3E memory in small quantities. The report, which attributes the development to The Information and two people familiar with the matter, says Alibaba Group’s T-Head and Beijing-based Cambricon are testing the memory with their processors.
China’s AI chip industry has gained another financial marker as MetaX Integrated Circuits, known in some English reporting as Muxi, reported its first profitable half-year.
Huawei is preparing to push its partner-service platform further into the industrial AI workflow. At the 2026 Huawei China Government and Enterprise User Summit, the company said its O3 Partner Service Platform would bring more than 50 intelligent agents online and support more than 10 digital-employee scenarios in the second half of the year.
China’s underground drainage networks are difficult to inspect, expensive to repair and easy to overlook until a road collapses or a city floods. A new specialized model launched in Guiyang is designed to make that work more systematic.
