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News articles, analyses and commentary about machines that mimic human cognitive functions such as learning and problem solving. This also covers chatbots, algorithms, consumer products and Big Data analysis that make use of AI.
LATEST China Science NEWS

Chinese hydrogel coating boosts solar panel output 13%, ideal for hot regions

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Professor Jerry Yan Jinyue, second from right and Dr Liu Junwei led a team to develop a hydrogel coating that enhances the cooling performance of solar panels to increase power generation efficiency. Photo: Handout

North America’s top computer vision scientist Liang Jie returns to China

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According to the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo (pictured), Liang Jie joined the university in January 2026 as a chair professor at its School of Electronic Science and Technology. Photo: Handout

Frost in 20 seconds: can this supercooling tech give China an edge in AI race?

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While China already has twice the power generation capacity of the United States, it is also advancing new technologies for building more energy efficient data centres. Photo: Xinhua

UCLA virologist Xia Xian joins Wuhan lab studying highly pathogenic virus

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An aerial view shows the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province. Photo: AFP

China’s man-made forest in Gobi produces good rubber for military use

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Chinese scientists including Zhu Mingqiang (right) of Northwest A&F University are behind a thriving project to plant high-value alternative “rubber trees” in the Gobi Desert. Photo: Handout
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Alibaba’s Spring Festival campaign will be launched across its ecosystem that includes shopping platform Taobao and on-demand retail and food-delivery service Shangou. Photo: Simon Song
Alibaba

Alibaba’s Qwen ramps up AI app race with Spring Festival giveaway blitz

Alibaba unveils US$432 million campaign to push mass-market adoption of its AI as rivalry with Tencent, Baidu and ByteDance intensifies.

Mainland China

China’s AI labs race to debut latest models before Lunar New Year

Semiconductors

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang urges TSMC to expand capacity amid AI chip crunch

Hong Kong society

Calls for stricter rules after bot bookers detected on Hong Kong sports app

Authorities say they found accounts using computer programs or other automated tools for bookings just a week after new anti-touting policy began.

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Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park Sports Centre. Photo: Dickson Lee
US-China relations

The future of AI in music? US and China strike different chords

As generative music tools surge, China turns to state oversight while the US relies on courts, copyright suits and settlements.

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Robotics

Forget soulless humanoid robots like Tesla’s Optimus. This one’s more Wall-E

Fauna Robotics’ humanoid robot Sprout is an attempt to start a focus on ‘approachable’ robots inspired by Wall-E and BB-8, not Terminator.

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Semiconductors

Profits rise for China’s semiconductor firms on AI boom, tech self-reliance push

Domestic A-share companies in the sector are forecast to achieve substantial growth in their 2025 results, according to Donghai Securities.

The results reflect investors’ sharpened focus on stocks related to integrated circuits, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and storage solutions. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong society

‘Rampant like a pandemic’: why Hongkongers struggle to get peace from junk calls

Thousands of residents affected by a surge in junk calls, with 466,000 reported in 2025 alone.

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US-China relations

Ding Linwei convicted of stealing Google AI secrets for Chinese companies

Some of the blueprints were meant to give Google an edge over Amazon and Microsoft and to reduce Google’s reliance on Nvidia chips.

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Robotics

Ant Group’s open-source push aims to move robots from lab demos to real-world work

Flashy robots can dance and backflip on cue, but Ant Group is betting open-source AI can take them beyond scripted moves.

Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has open-sourced its first ever artificial intelligence models designed to make robots intelligent enough to be highly productive in the real world. Photo: Handout
Semiconductors

China tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba to ramp up AI infrastructure efforts

The two firms’ actions are poised to further intensify the global AI arms race.

ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo wants to optimise efficiency across the firm’s AI infrastructure. Photo: Shutterstock
Alibaba

Alibaba AI chip push hits 100,000 mark, beating local rival Cambricon: sources

The milestone underscores Alibaba’s growing footprint in AI hardware, as Chinese firms accelerate efforts to build home-grown processors.

Electric & new energy vehicles

How Tesla’s AI shift is prompting Chinese rivals to expand tech offerings

As Tesla diversifies into humanoid robots and self-driving cars, its Chinese competitors are also moving into flying cars, robots and chips.

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Robotics

China’s humanoid robot sales to double this year as costs fall: Morgan Stanley

The US investment bank revises its China robot sales forecast to 28,000 units this year, while it sees parts prices falling 16 per cent.

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A humanoid robot is seen at the 2025 Global Industrial Internet Conference in Shenyang, Liaoning province, in September 2025. Photo: Xinhua
China technology

China’s cloud giants race to support Moltbot, the ‘AI that actually does things’

Hyperscalers embrace the AI agent, which can execute tasks without step-by-step instructions, but privacy concerns loom large.

The global AI industry is moving towards developing AI agents capable of autonomously executing tasks on behalf of users. Photo: Shutterstock
China jobs

With AI in the driving seat, China moves to rein in job displacement risks

China’s central government unveils plans for policy to reduce industrial labour pains caused by widespread use of artificial intelligence.

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Semiconductors

Alibaba’s T-Head unit unveils details of AI chip designed to rival Nvidia’s GPUs

The launch of the Zhenwu 810E marks the latest initiative by China’s Big Tech firms to develop a domestic alternative to Nvidia’s AI chips.

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Semiconductors

Nvidia wins approval for Taiwan headquarters to secure AI chip supply

Jensen Huang’s expansion plan highlights Silicon Valley chip designer’s reliance on TSMC as AI demand accelerates.

Jensen Huang says Nvidia’s engineering staff in Taiwan have outgrown their existing office. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong weather

How AI model predicts heavy rainstorms 4 hours in advance

Hong Kong and mainland Chinese researchers have developed a pioneering AI model.

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United States

S&P 500 hits 7,000 for first time amid AI boom and rate cut hopes

AI and Big Tech earnings propel the surge, as rate cut expectations boost market confidence despite earlier jitters.

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Semiconductors

Hygon’s chips ‘safe’ from AMD security flaw amid China’s tech self-reliance push

That result shows Hygon’s efforts in redesigning the chip architecture licensed from AMD with self-developed innovations.

A Hygon accelerator used in artificial intelligence model training and inference. Photo: Hygon
US-China relations

Would Chinese or US supply lines be more vulnerable in a Pacific conflict?

AI-assisted modelling by the Heritage Foundation finds critical risks to fuel and munitions on both sides.

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According to a Heritage Foundation report, the United States’ oiler fleet would be insufficient for at-sea fuel replenishment during a prolonged conflict with China. Photo: US Navy
China trade

What haunts China’s investors? Geopolitics and a demographic abyss, survey finds

Weak domestic demand, shrinking confidence in the property market and a declining fertility rate fuel caution among investors in China’s major hubs.

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United States

Amazon cuts 16,000 jobs amid AI shift, post-pandemic restructuring

The restructuring and cost-cutting come despite soaring profits and strategic hiring in key areas.

China technology

Moonshot’s newest release narrows US-China AI model development gap: analysts

Kimi K2.5 raises questions about the potency of US controls on advanced chips to constrain China’s AI efforts, Brookings’ Kyle Chan says.

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Chinese start-up Moonshot AI on Tuesday released its latest artificial intelligence model, Kimi K2.5. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

Beijing weighs H200 imports amid uncertainty for China tech giants

More than 400,000 H200 chips reportedly approved for ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent as China balances AI needs with tech self-reliance push.

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The first batch of Nvidia chip shipments is expected to go to China’s Big Tech companies. Photo: Shutterstock
Jack Ma

‘Teach our children well’: Jack Ma urges changes to China’s education in AI era

China’s educators must teach students to ask thousands of good questions, rather than give the same correct answer, Ma says.

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Alibaba Cloud

Price rises on horizon for Chinese cloud firms after Google, AWS set new rates

Surging AI workloads, memory prices push Chinese cloud providers to consider increases after global peers act.

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