Humanoid robots are breaking athletic records in Beijing. China’s larger bet depends on whether those same machines can navigate warehouses, restaurants and factories when the physical world refuses to behave perfectly. A humanoid robot ran 100 meters in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing this weekend, faster than Usain Bolt’s human world record…
The same iPhone can now carry a different intelligence stack depending on which government regulates it. Reuters reported Friday that Apple has trained a large language model specifically for China with support from Alibaba. The China-specific system is part of a broader Apple Intelligence configuration expected to reach the country in the coming months. Alibaba’s…
Beijing wants 70% AI adoption by 2027. It also wants no social instability. Those two goals are already in conflict. Liu, a 26-year-old contractor at a large Chinese internet firm in Hangzhou, told Reuters that her employer began quietly firing contractors in March after mandating adoption of OpenClaw, an AI agent tool that spread rapidly…
China’s economy grew 5% in the first quarter. The government’s own analysts are warning the number doesn’t tell the whole story. China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported 5.0% year-over-year GDP growth for the first quarter of 2026, beating forecasts of 4.8% and accelerating from 4.5% in the previous quarter — a result state media described…