4 h. ago Top China silicon figure calls on country to stop using Nvidia GPUs for AI — says current AI development model could become 'lethal' if not addressed

Top China silicon figure calls on country to stop using Nvidia GPUs for AI — says current AI development model could become 'lethal' if not addressed  Tom's Hardware

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43 h. ago Tech from Silicon Valley has enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

Tech from Silicon Valley has enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show  Anchorage Daily News

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47 h. ago Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show  ca.finance.yahoo.com

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57 h. ago Baidu updates AI reasoning model to rival systems from DeepSeek, OpenAI, Google

Baidu, one of China’s artificial intelligence champions, on Tuesday released an updated version of its proprietary reasoning model with comparable performance to advanced AI systems from DeepSeek, OpenAI and Google. Citing data from third-party AI benchmarks, Baidu chief technology officer Wang Haifeng said at a developer conference in Beijing that the firm’s X1.1 reasoning model had surpassed the performance of DeepSeek-R1, while it matched OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro. “From...

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3 d. ago China’s aggressive silicon strategy: flooding the market with key material to achieve domination

China’s aggressive silicon strategy: flooding the market with key material to achieve domination  Cybernews

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6 d. ago China's Nvidia Breakup? The AI Chip Divorce Silicon Valley Feared Is Happening

China's Nvidia Breakup? The AI Chip Divorce Silicon Valley Feared Is Happening  Yahoo Finance

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9 d. ago Chinese delivery giant Meituan releases AI model to take on Alibaba, DeepSeek

On-demand local services giant Meituan has become the latest Chinese Big Tech company to release an open-source large language model (LLM) to market, more than two years after it acquired mainland AI start-up Light Year for US$281 million. Beijing-based Meituan, the long-standing leader of China’s food delivery market, on Monday released and open-sourced its own LLM, called LongCat-Flash-Chat, via artificial intelligence developer platforms Hugging Face and GitHub, as well as the model’s...

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2 w. ago Chinese AI model developers seek fast commercial adoption as training costs fall

Open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models from China are seeing increased adoption across various industries, according to research firm Frost & Sullivan, as major developers step up the commercial application of their systems. Developers such as DeepSeek, Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu have shifted from pushing their models’ “extreme performance” towards prioritising usability, cost efficiency and broad ecosystem support to accelerate industry adoption, according to Neil Wang, global...

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2 w. ago DeepSeek’s V3.1 model emerges as ‘key pillar’ for China’s chip self

DeepSeek’s recently released V3.1 AI model has unleashed fresh optimism about the prospects of mainland China developing advanced artificial intelligence semiconductors, according to analysts. The Hangzhou-based start-up’s updated model, which supports the innovative data format called UE8M0 FP8, was “ushering in a booming domestic computing power chain”, Huatai Securities analysts said in a research note on Tuesday. That architecture showed that the synergy between mainland-designed software...

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2 w. ago Cambricon: how two ‘genius brothers’ created China’s potential rival to Nvidia

The hottest company in China right now is Cambricon Technologies, an artificial intelligence chipmaker whose stock has surged about 10-fold over the past two years, driven by expectations that it could be a serious challenger to Nvidia in the mainland market. The frenzy over Cambricon, whose stock is trading at an eye-watering trailing 12-month price-to-earnings ratio above 4,000 – compared to under 60 for Nvidia – reflects a growing belief in China that the country is on a path to develop an AI...

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2 w. ago Cambricon: how 2 ‘genius brothers’ created China’s potential rival to Nvidia

The hottest company in China right now is Cambricon Technologies, an artificial intelligence chipmaker whose stock has surged about 10-fold over the past two years, driven by expectations that it could be a serious challenger to Nvidia in the mainland market. The frenzy over Cambricon, whose stock is trading at an eye-watering trailing 12-month price-to-earnings ratio above 4,000 – compared to under 60 for Nvidia – reflects a growing belief in China that the country is on a path to develop an AI...

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2 w. ago Huawei restructures cloud unit to sharpen focus on AI amid tech war

Huawei Technologies has begun a major restructuring of its cloud computing unit as the Chinese tech giant sharpens its focus on artificial intelligence amid the Sino-US tech war, according to sources and Chinese media reports. The subsidiary – responsible for AI model development, cloud services and data centre solutions – kicked off the restructuring on Friday, merging several key departments to prioritise AI-related business, according to two employees involved, who requested anonymity because...

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2 w. ago Hong Kong researchers develop AI model that can detect fertile sperm

A team of Hong Kong researchers has developed an artificial intelligence model that can identify fertile sperm more accurately compared with traditional methods, paving the way for faster and more effective fertility treatments. Researchers from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) said on Monday that the AI model had an accuracy rate of more than 96 per cent when it came to identifying fertile sperm after being trained with over 1,000 images of male sex cells. The team further developed the model...

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2 w. ago DeepSeek’s ‘UE8M0 FP8’ innovation seen as boost for China’s AI self

A technical change in the latest model from Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek could be a big step towards achieving China’s goal of AI self-sufficiency, as it shows a new level of coordination between local model developers and hardware makers, according to analysts and industry insiders. This week, the Hangzhou-based AI lab said its new V3.1 model was trained using a UE8M0 FP8 scale data format, which was suitable for the “home-grown chips soon to be released”. While DeepSeek...

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2 w. ago Why Japan is pushing a transparent development model for Africa

Japan is positioning itself as a partner offering a transparent and “human-centred” approach to development in Africa, providing an alternative to China’s economic influence through what analysts describe as a rules-based and mutually accountable model. Unveiling a proposal to create a regional economic zone linking the Indian Ocean to Africa, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba told a major development summit in Yokohama on Wednesday that Tokyo’s approach could boost free trade and regional...

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