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China Unveils Global AI Ethics Plan as Tech Rivalry With US Intensifies

China is seeking to position itself at the centre of the emerging international system for governing artificial intelligence, combining calls for global ethical standards with a broader strategy to st...

Jul 18, 2026

Shanghai Solidifies Status as Premier Global R&D Hub Through Strategic Tech Investment

Shanghai is accelerating its shift from commercial powerhouse to global research and development hub, using public policy, industrial depth and international corporate investment to strengthen its pos...

Jul 17, 2026

DeepSeek Founder Liang Wenfeng's Net Worth Surges to $36 Billion Amid AI Boom

Liang Wenfeng was never supposed to become the face of China’s artificial intelligence boom. For much of his career, the Zhejiang University-trained engineer was known mainly inside quantitative fin...

Jul 15, 2026

Chinese Hard Tech Giants Surge as Global Investors Pour Capital into Advanced Manufacturing

Chinese hard-tech companies have become one of the clearest winners from a broader investor rotation into manufacturing, automation and supply-chain security, as global funds search for exposure to th...

Jul 13, 2026

BCI Technology Transforms Chinese Healthcare: From Lab to Clinical Application

China’s brain-computer interface industry is moving quickly from laboratory research into hospitals, as we covered in our story on Diagens launching iMedLoop as a full-chain medical AI ecosystem, re...

Jul 10, 2026

China's AI Hiring Boom: LLMs Drive Restructuring Across Industries

China’s AI Hiring Race Moves From Labs to Industry Hiring for artificial intelligence jobs is accelerating across China as companies move the technology from experimental projects into daily operati...

Jul 8, 2026

US Firms Pivot to Chinese AI After Mythos Imposes Restrictions

US firms have significantly increased their reliance on Chinese artificial intelligence capabilities following restrictions imposed by the company Mythos. Shift in AI Sourcing Following Mythos Constr...

Jul 6, 2026

Tech Giants Pivot to Embodied Intelligence: The Next Frontier of AI

Technology companies are moving rapidly to turn artificial intelligence from a screen-based tool into a physical force, pouring money and engineering talent into robots that can see, reason and act in...

Jul 3, 2026

AI Chipmakers and Energy Drink Giants Lead Hong Kong's 2026 Equity Listings

AI chipmakers and energy drink giants led Hong Kong's most significant equity listings in 2026, signaling investor appetite for both cutting-edge technology and consumer staples. Dominance of Techn...

Jul 2, 2026

AI and Robotics Drive China’s Next Industrial Revolution Beyond Factory Floors

AI Pushes China’s Factory Robots Into New Corners of Industry China’s factory robots are moving beyond the car plants and electronics lines where they first became fixtures, as advances in artifi...

Jul 1, 2026