US chipmaker GlobalFoundries says demand for Chinese optical modules is strong as more data centres are built, one of its top bosses told the South China Morning Post. Ann Cao reported the interview from Shanghai on Sunday. Optical modules turn data in…
Chinese President Xi Jinping left Washington on Friday at the end of a state visit that extended the US-China trade truce but produced no major new agreements. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the two countries had agreed to extend their trade tru…
Peter Thiel has called Pope Leo XIV a “useful idiot” for the Chinese Communist Party over the pope’s call to regulate AI. The PayPal and Palantir co-founder spoke to Axel Springer chief executive Mathias Döpfner on the MD Meets podcast, released on Thu…
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday that the US and China can continue their dialogue on artificial intelligence. The two sides can also jointly prevent its misuse and abuse, according to China’s foreign minist…
Local governments across China are competing to attract AI filmmakers with subsidised rent, living allowances and cheap computing power, Reuters reported on Friday. Zhu Zhili set up an AI film studio in Shenzhen two years ago. He told the agency that o…
Factories around the world installed 603,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 11%, and China accounted for 354,000 of them, or 59%. The figures come from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), which published its World Robotics 2026 report on Thu…
“A substantial portion of our revenue is driven by a limited number of our customers, and the loss of, or a significant reduction in, spend from one or a few of our top customers would adversely affect our business,” Nscale wrote in the prospectus for …
As scrutiny of camera-equipped AI glasses intensifies, tighter privacy settings and clearer messaging will not be enough. Jason Low, research director at Omdia, said that on Tuesday. The research firm had just published its count of the AI glasses mark…
The most powerful AI chip in China today, delivering three times the performance of its predecessor, the Zhenwu M890. That is how Eddie Wu described the processor Alibaba unveiled on Tuesday. The chief executive was speaking at Apsara, the company’s an…
Frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public. Xiaomi opened its MiMo-V2.6 announcement with that line on Tuesday. The phone and electric car maker released two open-weight models, Pro and Flash, under an MIT licence. The weights are on Hu…