Relevant AI stories
Policy and SafetyAug 27, 2026
AI security has an awkward truth at its center: the same agent behavior that makes systems useful can also make abuse faster, cheaper, and harder to contain. A model that can plan, call tools, and adapt across steps does not only help an employee. In the wrong setting, it can also help an attacker.
RoboticsSep 1, 2026
China’s robotics story is easy to reduce to humanoid demos, but the more important signal is scale. Industrial deployment, supply chains, manufacturing depth, and government attention may matter more than whether a robot looks like a person on stage.
WatchAug 29, 2026
Generative video can look like a creative tool in a demo and a labor shock inside an entertainment market. The Decoder's report on AI-generated short dramas in China shows how quickly synthetic media can move from novelty to production replacement.
Policy and SafetyAug 27, 2026
AI security has an awkward diplomacy problem: the same agent capabilities that make systems useful can also make abuse faster and harder to attribute. Tool use, planning, and multi-step execution do not respect company borders or national slogans.
ModelsAug 27, 2026
The global AI race is often described as a contest for the most advanced chips. Z.AI's work with Chinese hardware points to a different pressure: what happens when teams have to make strong models run well on the hardware they can actually get.
ModelsAug 27, 2026
Z.AI’s reported use of Chinese chips is a reminder that the AI race is not only about having the most powerful hardware. Under constraint, optimization becomes strategy. Teams that cannot rely on unlimited access to top-end GPUs have to squeeze more from software, architecture, and deployment choices.
RoboticsAug 23, 2026
Financial Times coverage of China’s robot demonstrations points to growing state and market attention around humanoid robotics.
GlobalAug 23, 2026
WIRED reports on an unexpected Chinese city benefiting from cheap energy, land, and proximity to Beijing as AI infrastructure grows.