Open-weight AI models have nearly caught the frontier on capability. On safety, they have not. And once the weights are public, no lab can enforce a guardrail. A new evaluation of China’s leading open model makes the gap concrete. GLM-5.2, the open-wei…
The clearest sign of China’s drug-development surge is not a molecule but a monkey. The price of a research primate there has climbed toward 150,000 yuan, roughly $26,000, and it keeps rising. That is a steep jump in a short time. The figure is up from…
Taiwan is again accusing China of trying to buy the talent it cannot build. The island’s Investigation Bureau said it is probing 17 Chinese companies suspected of illegally recruiting local high-tech engineers. The sweep was substantial. Between mid-Ju…
Apple has crossed $10bn in annual sales in India for the first time. The milestone says as much about where the company is heading as where it has been. Revenue for the year to March topped $10bn, Bloomberg reported. That is up from about $9bn a year e…
China has spent the past year telling the world that AI should be open, cheap and shared. In private, its officials are unnerved by one American model that is none of those things. Beijing is growing anxious that Anthropic’s Mythos could be turned agai…
The Trump administration wants Chinese hardware out of American data centres. Officials are drafting a ban on Chinese-made devices used in data centres, according to Reuters, the latest move to wall off the infrastructure behind the US AI buildout from…
China’s open-source AI push has created what Bloomberg calls a ‘death zone’ for rival American model makers. The phrase captures a squeeze on the middle of the market, where US companies are too costly to match free Chinese models yet not good enough t…
The eagerly anticipated Geely Galaxy 700 was expected to be the Chinese brand’s answer to the Range Rover and Land Cruiser – but, with a tire-shredding 1,113 hp on tap, it may be a bigger, boxier answer to Italian exotic cars, instead!
ChangXin Memory Technologies has nearly completed R&D verification for LPDDR6 smartphone memory at speeds of up to 12.8Gbps, China Business News reported. This is one of the final technical stages before trial production. CXMT could begin mass prod…
Tesla is weighing whether to sell, spin off, or shut down its China business to clear a path for a possible merger with SpaceX, according to a Wall Street Journal report that Elon Musk has publicly and flatly denied. The move would untangle Tesla’s vas…