Chinese Tesla owners are reportedly using miniature doll heads, photos, and blinking screens to trick Autopilot’s driver-monitoring cameras into thinking they are paying attention.
China has launched its first dedicated photonic computing laboratory in Shanghai, signalling that Beijing sees light-based chips as a strategic route around Washington’s tightening grip on conventional semiconductor exports. The Shanghai Key Laboratory…
Google filed a lawsuit on Friday to dismantle the infrastructure behind a Chinese cybercrime operation called Outsider Enterprise. The group used AI, including Google’s own Gemini, to generate phishing websites and send scam text messages impersonating…
Baidu’s robotaxis are heading to the Alps. AmiGo, a venture between the Chinese giant’s Apollo Go robotaxi unit and Swiss Post’s PostBus, has won a special permit from Switzerland’s Federal Roads Office for Level 4 autonomous driving, Baidu said. Level…
EngineAI, a Chinese maker of humanoid robots, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Shenzhen-based startup is working with China International Cap…
Nvidia has started pitching its Vera CPU to Chinese customers. Orders can begin now, and deliveries could start as soon as August, Reuters reported on Friday, citing three people familiar with the talks. It is a workaround dressed as a product launch. …
Anthropic built the Claude Fable 5 curbs to keep China’s AI labs out of its most powerful public model. The loudest complaints came from its own side of the firewall. On 9 June, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a tamed, public-facing version of Mytho…
Alibaba Group is offering $1.5 billion to acquire Pupu, one of China’s last independent online grocery platforms, according to Bloomberg. The bid is more than double a $600 million proposal from Sun Art Retail, the former Alibaba affiliate now backed b…
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) granted Xiaomi regulatory approval to produce extended-range electric vehicles (EREVs), clearing a key hurdle for the company’s expansion beyond battery-only EVs.
The approval paves the way…