A CAISI evaluation says DeepSeek V4 Pro is China's strongest model but still trails leading US frontier AI systems.

A Chinese court ruled that cheaper AI automation alone does not justify firing workers, raising stakes for AI labor policy.

Beijing orders Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition of Singaporean AI agent startup Manus, citing national security concerns over Chinese-rooted technology.

The US State Department sent a worldwide cable warning allies about alleged AI model theft by DeepSeek and other Chinese firms, escalating US-China tech tensions.

The White House released a memo accusing Chinese firms of stealing US AI labs' intellectual property on an industrial scale.

US House lawmakers are pushing AI export control measures to close loopholes that allow China to access powerful US AI technology, including Nvidia chips.

Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots outpaced human runners in a Beijing half-marathon, demonstrating major leaps in autonomous navigation and physical AI.

China's PBOC Governor Pan Gongsheng said AI is driving a new wave of technological transformation, highlighting both its economic opportunities and systemic risks.

House Republicans are pushing for sanctions against Chinese entities that improperly extract outputs from leading US AI models to replicate their capabilities.

The US, China, Russia, and others are ramping up their contest over AI-backed autonomous weapons and military systems in what experts compare to mutually assured destruction.

A Chinese Nvidia cloud partner acquired 300 servers with banned H100/H200 AI GPUs worth $92M, as Sharetronic shares plummet following a Super Micro smuggling arrest.

Rapid AI adoption is driving layoffs across Silicon Valley, while engineers in China appear more insulated from the wave of AI-related job cuts.

Chinese semiconductor companies including SMIC reported record 2025 revenues driven by AI demand, with SMIC's revenue rising 16% to $9.3 billion and projected to top $11 billion in 2026.

The US Department of War has raised fresh national security concerns about Anthropic in a court filing, citing the AI company's employment of a large number of foreign nationals including workers from China, arguing this increases adversarial risk under China's National Intelligence Law.

Chinese tech giants release multiple AI models before Lunar New Year: Alibaba's Qwen 3.5, ByteDance's Doubao 2.0, Zhipu's GLM-5, and anticipated DeepSeek V4.

Moonshot AI targets $10 billion valuation backed by Alibaba and Tencent, just weeks after raising $500 million at $4.3 billion valuation with Kimi chatbot.

NPR analysis reveals China focuses on AI adoption and application while US prioritizes model development, highlighting two distinct approaches in global AI competition.

Shanghai Jiao Tong and Tsinghua University researchers developed LightGen, a revolutionary all-optical computing chip with 2 million photonic neurons that processes AI workloads 100 times faster than Nvidia's A100 GPU.

Chinese state-backed hacking group APT31 leveraged Google's Gemini AI to automate vulnerability analysis and plan cyberattacks against US targets, marking a significant escalation in AI-powered cyber warfare.

China takes major step toward AI-powered space infrastructure, deploying 10 AI models in satellite constellation with inter-satellite networking capabilities.