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Chinese tech firm Xiaomi reaped returns from its artificial intelligence spending in 2025 that “far exceeded expectations”, the company’s president Lu Weibing said in a recorded video posted on Chinese social media platform Douyin.
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China using AI as ‘precision instrument’ of censorship and repression, at home and abroad
Think tank ASPI says Beijing is even using it to steal fish from the ocean China has embraced AI to help it censor and surveil its citizens and is exporting its techniques to the world, according to a new report by think tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang lobbied Trump and Republican senators to allow sales of advanced AI chips to China, arguing export restrictions won’t slow Beijing’s advancement.
China shuts out Nvidia, ending a profitable market for AI chips. CEO Huang remains optimistic, projecting trillions in global AI spending.
Chinese authorities are using artificial intelligence to turbocharge surveillance and censorship, with the technology predicting public demonstrations and monitoring prison inmates, according to a new report.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits that he has no idea whether Nvidia can sell its H200 chips in China even if Washington allows the company to export them.
Believing that the PLA will not use the world’s most powerful AI chips to advance its military capabilities is unrealistic.
AI Plus is not merely about automation, but about civilization design. By 2035, China envisions a world where algorithmic intelligence powers not just products, but people, policy and progress. The West still leads in creativity and innovation, but China leads in cohesion and execution.
The best AI chips are made by American companies,” said Republican Senator Pete Ricketts, one of the bill’s authors. “Denying Beijing access to these AI chips is essentia
Seven Chinese universities plan to launch an "embodied intelligence" major as Beijing races to build a pipeline of robotics and AI talent.
China is expanding the use of AI throughout its criminal justice system and developing tools to deepen its monitoring of ethnic minorities, a new report finds.