3 h. ago China isn’t racing to artificial general intelligence — but U.S. companies are

China isn’t racing to artificial general intelligence — but U.S. companies are  The Wire China

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7 h. ago Europe rebuffs automakers’ pleas to let them lose the EV race to China

Europe rebuffs automakers’ pleas to let them lose the EV race to China  Electrek

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14 h. ago AI could cut a submarine’s survival chance to 5%: Chinese defence scientists

A new defence industry study from China suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) could soon make it extremely hard – even nearly impossible – for submarines to survive in a future naval conflict. The research, published in the peer-reviewed journal Electronics Optics & Control and led by senior engineer Meng Hao with the China Helicopter Research and Development Institute in August, unveiled for the first time an advanced AI-driven anti-submarine warfare (ASW) system capable of hunting even...

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15 h. ago Cyberport may use Chinese GPUs at supercomputing centre, CEO says

Cyberport may add some graphics processing units (GPUs) made in China to its Artificial Intelligence Supercomputing Centre in Hong Kong, as the government-run incubator seeks to reduce its reliance on Nvidia chips amid worsening China-US relations, its chief executive said. Cyberport has bought four GPUs made by four different mainland Chinese chipmakers and has been testing them at its AI lab to gauge which ones to adopt in the expanding facilities, Rocky Cheng Chung-ngam said in an interview...

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16 h. ago In race for Central Asia’s rare earths, China is leaving US in the dust

Over the past year, the US has moved to expand cooperation with Central Asian countries on critical minerals. This is being done in an effort to limit China’s chokehold on the resources that are critical to a range of industries where Beijing and Washington are locked in competition. Yet, the United States is lagging behind China in Central Asia. Beijing has long developed an efficient strategy to position itself as a dominant actor in the region’s critical minerals sector. Uzbekistan is a key...

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16 h. ago Opinion | In race for Central Asia’s rare earths, China is leaving US in the dust

Opinion | In race for Central Asia’s rare earths, China is leaving US in the dust  South China Morning Post

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26 h. ago How Beijing’s secret deals with Myanmar’s militants keep China ahead in the rare Earth race

How Beijing’s secret deals with Myanmar’s militants keep China ahead in the rare Earth race  The Economic Times

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26 h. ago US scientists find ‘critical gaps’ in Nasa plan to beat China on the moon

Scientists have found critical gaps in Nasa’s development of space life support systems that could prevent the United States from competing with China in the pursuit of long-term manned space exploration and habitation. While Beijing and Moscow have joined forces to establish a lunar research base, Washington’s limited support for bioregenerative life support research puts its space competitiveness at risk, a team of scientists including Nasa researchers has found. The team said that past...

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60 h. ago How to Watch 2025 SMX Playoffs 2 and MXGP of China on TV, Peacock

How to Watch 2025 SMX Playoffs 2 and MXGP of China on TV, Peacock  Racer X

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62 h. ago 'I'll be damned if that's the story we write': Acting NASA Administrator Duffy vows not to lose moon race to China

'I'll be damned if that's the story we write': Acting NASA Administrator Duffy vows not to lose moon race to China  Space

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2 d. ago NASA bans Chinese nationals from all space programs amid rising US

NASA bans Chinese nationals from all space programs amid rising US-China Moon race tensions  Times of India

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2 d. ago Amap, Alibaba’s answer to Google Maps, sees millions test new ranking service

More than 40 million Amap users logged on to test its artificial intelligence-powered ranking service, as Alibaba Group Holding’s answer to Google Maps started ranking mainland destinations and providing recommendations for 1.6 million establishments. Amap Street Stars – which uses AI algorithms to rank destinations including restaurants, hotels and tourist attractions – recorded that many users on its launch on Wednesday, as the mapping app positioned itself as a gateway for lifestyle services,...

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2 d. ago Ant Group unit enters China’s humanoid robotics sector with first product

Ant Group unveiled its first humanoid robot at a trade show in Shanghai on Thursday, heralding the Chinese fintech company’s entry into the increasingly competitive field of embodied artificial intelligence to take on rivals like Unitree Robotics. The wheeled, two-armed humanoid, named R1, was developed by Ant’s robotics unit Ant Lingbo Technology, also known as Robbyant. At the company’s booth at the Inclusion Conference on the Bund on Thursday, the second day of the four-day event, one R1...

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3 d. ago China eyes nationwide AI computing network as tech race with US heats up

China is making progress in unifying the country’s scattered data centres into a nationwide computing network to drive artificial intelligence applications, according to the data centre builders. China’s Open Data Centre Committee (ODCC), an organisation representing the country’s key AI infrastructure investors such as Alibaba Group Holding and China Telecom, hosted a three-day conference this week to discuss how to transform the country’s far-flung data centres into one unified...

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3 d. ago AI agents to replace humans as basic unit of a company, Lee Kai

Artificial intelligence agents are emerging as an instrument of transformation in the workforce, with the potential to replace humans in traditional roles, according to computer scientist Lee Kai-fu, founder and CEO of the Chinese start-up 01.AI. “The basic unit of a company will evolve from a human being to an AI agent,” Lee said on Thursday at a summit on disruptive technologies hosted by Swiss bank UBS. AI agents are software apps that use AI to autonomously execute tasks and achieve goals on...

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3 d. ago AI agents to replace humans as basic units of a company, Lee Kai

Artificial intelligence agents are emerging as an instrument of transformation in the workforce, with the potential to replace humans in traditional roles, according to computer scientist Lee Kai-fu, founder and CEO of the Chinese start-up 01.AI. “The basic unit of a company will evolve from a human being to an AI agent,” Lee said on Thursday at a summit on disruptive technologies hosted by Swiss bank UBS. AI agents are software apps that use AI to autonomously execute tasks and achieve goals on...

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3 d. ago AI agents to replace humans as basic units of a company, Kai

Artificial intelligence agents are emerging as an instrument of transformation in the workforce, with the potential to replace humans in traditional roles, according to computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee, founder and CEO of the Chinese start-up 01.AI. “The basic unit of a company will evolve from a human being to an AI agent,” Lee said on Thursday at a summit on disruptive technologies hosted by Swiss bank UBS. AI agents are software apps that use AI to autonomously execute tasks and achieve goals on...

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3 d. ago Alibaba leads US$60 million investment in AI video generation start

The Beijing-based start-up behind the popular artificial intelligence video generator PixVerse has raised US$60 million in a funding round led by Alibaba Group Holding, the largest single amount raised by a domestic AI video generation firm, according to an announcement on Wednesday. Other participants in the funding round included Singapore-headquartered venture capital firm Antler and the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund. A valuation was not disclosed. The deal comes as...

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4 d. ago White House adviser calls for US to defend its AI lead against Chinese advances

The White House on Wednesday reiterated its call to defend its artificial intelligence lead against a quickly advancing China by exporting “cohesive AI tech stacks” that integrate not just chips but also algorithms and applications to foreign countries. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told a Senate subcommittee hearing that the US once commanded a “comfortable” lead in AI over closest competitors, such as China, in 2020, but by 2024 the gap...

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4 d. ago ByteDance unveils new AI image model to rival Google DeepMind’s ‘Nano Banana’

TikTok-owner ByteDance has launched its latest image generation artificial intelligence tool Seedream 4.0, which it said surpasses Google DeepMind’s viral “Nano Banana” AI image editor across several key indicators. ByteDance’s Seed department, which oversees the tech unicorn’s AI development efforts, said on Tuesday that Seedream 4.0 had strong image editing capabilities, putting it in direct competition with Nano Banana, officially known as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image. The US model has received...

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