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.
Rokid, the Hangzhou-based augmented reality startup that has staked its identity on putting a display screen in front of users’ eyes, is facing a public relations crisis that strikes at the heart of that very proposition.
China’s top data authority has unveiled a sweeping nationwide plan to build high-quality datasets for artificial intelligence training, as developers worldwide grapple with a looming shortage of human-generated text that has powered the current generation of large language models.
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.
Chinese regulators are stepping up public enforcement against the country’s corporate giants, marking a departure from the deliberately low-key approach adopted in the years following the bruising 2021 tech crackdown.
Despite pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence infrastructure and development, China’s AI boom is failing to deliver the broad economic lift that policymakers had hoped for, prompting analysts to question the structural bottlenecks hindering the technology’s impact.
ByteDance is spinning out its artificial intelligence drug discovery unit into an independent entity, marking the tech giant’s first major attempt to commercialize its “AI for Science” (AI4S) research.
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.
MetaX, a prominent Chinese developer of graphics processing units (GPUs), has announced plans to pursue a secondary listing in Hong Kong, seeking fresh capital to accelerate its development of artificial intelligence chips amid tightening United States export controls.
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.
Huawei Technologies has escalated the mobile operating system wars with the launch of HarmonyOS 7, a major update that deeply integrates artificial intelligence into the core of its device ecosystem.
China’s artificial intelligence industry is charting a distinctly different course from its American counterpart, prioritizing the rapid deployment of everyday applications over the pursuit of absolute frontier model capabilities.
The euphoria surrounding China’s artificial intelligence sector is facing a harsh reality check in the financial markets.
ByteDance has established its strategic roadmap for artificial intelligence in 2026, focusing its massive resources on four core priorities: developing world models, advancing AI coding capabilities, refining its Seedance video generation tool, and accelerating the monetization of its flagship Doubao chatbot.
As the brutal price war over AI model tokens in China reaches its logical extreme, with prices approaching zero, Huawei Cloud is attempting to shift the competitive battlefield entirely.
The race to commercialize embodied artificial intelligence is moving out of the laboratory and into the living room.
As a wave of record-breaking technology initial public offerings prepares to hit US markets, Chinese artificial intelligence executives and investors gathered in Shenzhen to project confidence, arguing that China’s distinct advantages in applications and hardware ecosystems will allow it to remain competitive despite a widening funding gap with American rivals.
Alibaba Group has abruptly replaced the CEO of its workplace communication app DingTalk, following an internal debate over the division’s artificial intelligence strategy and management culture.
In a move that underscores the intense supply chain pressures created by the global artificial intelligence boom, Chinese memory module maker Biwin has signed a massive two-year agreement worth US$1.86 billion (12.6 billion yuan) to secure enterprise-grade flash memory chips.
