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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman arrives for a meeting at the White House in Washington on July 30. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI blinks in face-off with Chinese rivals, making big price cuts

Dramatic move makes GPT-5.6 Luna the ‘most attractive’ in intelligence-per-dollar rankings, above Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.2 and MiniMax’s M3.

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Robotics

Unitree to launch IPO next week as US-China robotics rivalry intensifies

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Semiconductors

Exclusive | ‘Science is a universal language’: US materials pioneer defends global ties

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Robotics

China’s smart-vacuum giants swept up in US robot ban, hitting top options

Washington’s expanding trade crackdown targets household electronics, focusing crosshairs on overseas firms supplying American homes.

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People watch as a Cyber X robot moves up and down stairs at a Dreame booth during the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, in January. Photo: AFP
People watch as a Cyber X robot moves up and down stairs at a Dreame booth during the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, in January. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence

China’s AI road map

China’s artificial intelligence strategy focuses on upgrading traditional sectors and integrating AI deeply in the economy to build an ‘intelligent civilisation’ by 2035.

Artificial intelligence

How ByteDance’s Seedance model empowers China’s nascent AI drama industry

China’s studios are using ByteDance’s model to cut production times from months to weeks and drive down video creation costs.

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Robotics

Tesla to benefit from US robot ban as Chinese rivals suffer knockback

Leading Chinese robot makers have ambitious overseas expansion plans, but Washington’s ban may force them to recalibrate.

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Humanoid robots pick and sort goods at a demonstration warehouse during an expo in Shanghai. Photo: Xinhua
Humanoid robots pick and sort goods at a demonstration warehouse during an expo in Shanghai. Photo: Xinhua
Robotics

China sweeps global humanoid robot start-up ranking as US imposes ban

The LexisNexis study identified a ‘clear shift towards China’ in the humanoid robot race, with the US falling behind.

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Semiconductors

China chip dreams still face long road even after breakthrough

The reported start of production of chipmaking equipment in China has shaken up the global industry, even with efforts still trailing far behind leaders.

Artificial intelligence

Can Anthropic CEO’s chip ban proposal curb China’s AI advancements?

Dario Amodei wants the US to retain its AI advantage over China, highlighting distillation risks and advocating mandatory model safety tests.

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Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei speaks at an AI conference in San Francisco last year. Amodei is urging Washington to tighten chip export bans and clamp down on Chinese "distillation". Photo: Getty Images
Artificial intelligence

Exclusive | Chinese AI developers may shift to ‘paid weights’: Goldman Sachs

As use of Chinese artificial intelligence soars, companies will look to boost revenue capture, says bank’s head of Asia internet research.

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Goldman Sachs Asia analyst Ronald Keung on July 22. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Goldman Sachs Asia analyst Ronald Keung on July 22. Photo: Jonathan Wong
China’s private sector

How Beijing became China’s biggest tech venture capitalist, from AI to chips

China’s tech sector thrives on state-backed investment, reshaping funding dynamics and sparking a debate about balancing risk and innovation.

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Huawei

Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law: a new path amid US sanctions

Company founder Ren Zhengfei says the new framework is crucial for survival, enabling chip advancements without EUV lithography.

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Artificial intelligence

China’s Kimi K3 well behind US rivals in cyberattack ability, study shows

Kimi K3’s overall score of 32.2 per cent compares with top, unnamed US models that average 76.2 per cent.

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The Moonshot booth promoting its Kimi K3 AI model at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, July 17, 2026. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

Open Questions | Nobel economist on anti-China, anti-science US, AI’s risks

MIT’s Simon Johnson, former IMF chief economist, on Trump’s wrong turns, including tariffs, the AI threat to Chinese jobs and the chances of a global recession.

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Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Artificial intelligence

AI experts blast US claims of ‘IP theft’ by Moonshot’s Kimi K3

Researchers point to the lack of evidence for any distillation claims, while some highlight Kimi K3’s technical innovations.

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Robotics

US eyes ban on Chinese humanoid robots as US-China tech rivalry intensifies

US House has passed a bill banning the military from using Chinese bots, as Washington ramps up restrictions on Chinese-made technology.

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Artificial intelligence

Why China’s open-weight AI model Kimi K3 is sparking anxiety in Silicon Valley

Analysts say Beijing-based start-up Moonshot’s 2.8 trillion-parameter large language model could narrow the gap with the US within ‘weeks’.

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People visit the Moonshot AI stand, featuring the Kimi K3 model, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 18. Photo: AFP
People visit the Moonshot AI stand, featuring the Kimi K3 model, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 18. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence

Moonshot AI pushes China closer to US in frontier tech

An overwhelming rush to sign up for Moonshot’s Kimi K3 model underscores how China is rapidly gaining ground on the US in artificial intelligence.

Semiconductors

Alibaba targets Nvidia’s dominant software ecosystem with open-source AI stack

The firm’s chip unit T-Head aims to lower migration barriers to Zhenwu AI computing architectures, following similar initiatives by Huawei and Moore Threads.

Semiconductors

Chinese chip start-up Biren bets on light-based ‘supernodes’ to match Nvidia

The firm uses near-packaged optics to bypass traditional architecture limits and scale more than 1,000 processor cards across a cluster.

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Biren Technology is considered crucial to China’s efforts to reduce reliance on US chipmaker Nvidia amid Washington’s export curbs on advanced chips. Photo: Handout
Artificial intelligence

Xi’s call on AI, Trump blasts China, US tariffs

This week: Chinese president urges open and secure AI, US leader accuses Beijing over 2020 election, GDP growth slows. Next week: US global tariff expiry, Apec ministers meet, Hong Kong lawmakers decamp to Beijing.

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he arrives at the opening ceremony of the World AI Conference in Shanghai. Photo: EPA//Pool
Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he arrives at the opening ceremony of the World AI Conference in Shanghai. Photo: EPA//Pool
Artificial intelligence

Xi Jinping warns against creating ‘new historical injustices’ in AI era

Chinese leader’s presence at World AI Conference signals Beijing’s push to elevate AI from tech priority to pillar of geopolitical strategy.

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Semiconductors

Chinese Nvidia alternatives project massive sales as AI chip demand surges

Moore Threads and Hygon are capitalising on surging demand for AI computing power as they race to fill the void left by Washington’s export controls.

Artificial intelligence

BrainCo claims mind-to-robot link at China’s World AI Conference

Hangzhou-based firm says users can control robots using only their thoughts via EEG headsets, marking a leap in embodied AI tech.

Brain-controlled robot demonstration by Chinese tech unicorn BrainCo. Photo: Handout
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