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The AI Talent War: Tech Giants Are Recruiting PhD Students Two Years Before They Graduate
Headhunters and Chinese tech giants are recruiting AI PhD students a year or two before graduation. The race for AI agent safety specialists has reached a new level.
UBTech U1 Pro Costs 159,800 Yuan: Chinese Buyers Are the First to Bring a Humanoid Home
Shenzhen-based UBTech Robotics has put its U1 Pro humanoid on sale to individuals. The first buyer, in Beijing, paid $23,680 for a companion robot that can't yet clean.
DeepSeek Founder Liang Wenfeng: What the Leak of His Closed-Door Meeting Revealed
A leaked transcript of a closed-door investor meeting offers a rare look at Liang Wenfeng, the publicity-shy founder of DeepSeek and the High-Flyer hedge fund.
Chinese Tech Companies Ride the Global AI Boom: Chip Exports Jump 96% to $177 Billion
China's integrated circuit exports nearly doubled to $177.3 billion in the first half of 2026 as its tech companies turn the global AI boom into higher shipments.
Alibaba's Amap unveils ABot, a 5-in-1 AI framework that unites a robot's 'brain and limbs'
Alibaba's mapping unit, Amap, has updated ABot, which it calls the world's first framework to link a robot's legs, arms and 'brain' in a single system.
Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, which it says trails only Claude Fable 5
Alibaba has released a preview of its 2.4-trillion-parameter flagship, Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, and claims it trails only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3: A New 'DeepSeek Moment' and the Chips-vs-Architecture Debate
Moonshot AI's launch of Kimi K3 has revived a Silicon Valley debate: can China, short on advanced chips, match the flagship AI models of the US?
Moonshot AI Halts Kimi K3 Subscriptions as Demand Outstrips Compute Capacity
Beijing-based Moonshot AI has stopped accepting new Kimi K3 subscribers after demand nearly exhausted the company's compute capacity within 48 hours.
Robotics Startup AgiBot Prepares Hong Kong IPO, With Citic, CICC and Morgan Stanley as Sponsors
Chinese humanoid robot maker AgiBot is preparing an initial public offering in Hong Kong and has already hired three sponsors: Citic Securities, CICC and Morgan Stanley.
Zhipu (Z.ai) Shares Jump 37% After Launch of Data Center Built on Chinese Chips
Shares of Chinese AI company Zhipu rose 37% in Hong Kong after it finished building a 1 GW data center that runs entirely on Chinese chips.
AWS Launches From Idea to Frontier Accelerator for Chinese-Speaking AI Founders
Amazon Web Services has opened From Idea to Frontier: up to 100 early-stage teams from China, Hong Kong and the Chinese diaspora will get AWS resources to launch AI startups run by a single founder.
Chinese Robots Lack a 'Brain' and Data: Embodied AI's Biggest Challenge at WAIC 2026
At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, Chinese roboticists conceded that embodied AI is held back by a shortage of data and the lack of a strong 'brain' for interacting with the physical world.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3: A 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Open-Weight Model Rattles Silicon Valley
Beijing startup Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, an open-weight model with 2.8 trillion parameters and native vision. By some estimates, it has narrowed the US lead in AI to a few weeks.
SenseTime Bets on a "Task Economy": AI Token Prices Are Bound to Fall
SenseTime chief Xu Li predicts AI token prices will inevitably fall, as mobile data prices once did, and that industry revenue will shift from tokens to completed tasks.
Beijing Scales AI Computing Up to 130,000 Petaflops in Tech Race With the US
Beijing plans to add 50,000 petaflops of intelligent computing in the second half of 2026 and exceed 130,000 petaflops by year-end, as its AI race with the US intensifies.
RedNote's dots-note-3.0 Is the First AI Model to Score Perfectly at the IMO
Chinese platform RedNote built dots-note-3.0, the first AI model to score a perfect 42 points at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in Shanghai.
Robbyant launches LingBot-Depth 2.0 to help robots perceive glass
Chinese company Ant Group, through its Robbyant division, has launched new models LingBot-Depth 2.0 and LingBot-Vision to help robots perceive transparent objects, glass and mirrors.
The world runs on RISC-V: Alibaba on unity despite the US-China trade war
Alibaba Vice President Qi Xiaoning stated at the SCMP conference that despite trade tensions between the US and China, companies from different countries continue to jointly develop the open RISC-V chip architecture.
FCC bars Digitalsystem Technology from providing telecom services over China ties
The US Federal Communications Commission denied California-based Digitalsystem Technology authorization to provide international telecommunications services, adding it to the national security threat list over ties to Ch
Hong Kong: Strategic Hub for Chinese Tech Companies' Global Market Entry
Chinese tech companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange use the city as a gateway not only for attracting capital but also for globalization: improving products, finding international partners, and expanding into W
Huawei's AI Agent Phone at WAIC: A World First
At the WAIC conference in Shanghai (July 17-20, 2026), Huawei will unveil its Atlas 950 SuperPoD supercluster for the first time and present the world's first AI agent phone.