Chinese AI firms defend safety practices, push back on Western criticism
Chinese companies are mitigating the risks of artificial intelligence in their own way and should not be judged…
‘Value for money’: AI agent OpenClaw adopts Chinese models for cost edge over US rivals
OpenClaw, which has been a runaway success since its late 2025 launch, announced on Friday that it was…
Open Questions | Lawrence Lau on why China must ‘work smarter’ and how it can invent from scratch
Lawrence J. Lau is a Hong Kong economist specialising in economic development and East Asian economies. He was…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang urges TSMC to expand capacity amid AI chip crunch
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) needs to “work very hard” to meet growing demand from leading US chip…
In the age of Trump, are ‘safe-haven’ US assets not so safe any more?
For decades, the US dollar has served as the currency of global reserve, the de facto anchor for…
Open Questions | Jeffrey Ding on why diffusion, not innovation, is the secret to victory in the AI race
Jeffrey Ding is an assistant professor of political science at George Washington University. He is the author of…
Google study finds DeepSeek, Alibaba AI models mimic human collective intelligence
New Google research into DeepSeek and Alibaba Cloud’s artificial intelligence models has found that powerful reasoning models capable…
China’s tech self-sufficiency powers stock boom and helps it shake off economic malaise
Nearly a year after DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough rattled global markets, mainland China is entering 2026 with a fresh…
DeepSeek stays mum on next AI model release as technical papers show frontier innovation
Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek continues to keep the world guessing on when its next major release –…
China seeks ‘safe and reliable’ AI supply as global tech race heats up
China has vowed to achieve a “safe and reliable supply” of bedrock artificial intelligence (AI) technologies by 2027…
DeepSeek to customise namesake chatbot for Italian users following probe
Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek has agreed to launch the first country-specific version of its namesake chatbot, while…
DeepSeek-V3.2 Outperforms GPT-5 on Reasoning Tasks
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3.2, a family of open-source reasoning and agentic AI models. The high compute version, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, performs…