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Eye-catching martial arts performance at China gala had viewers and experts wondering what else humanoids can doDancing humanoid robots took centre stage on Monday during the annual China Media Group’s Spring Festival Gala, China’s most-watched official television broadcast. They lunged and backflipped (landing on their knees), they spun around and jumped. Not one fell over.The […]
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China Media Group’s 2026 Spring Festival Gala drew widespread attention with a performance of humanoid robots that appeared to do martial arts alongside young performers. However, as the videos spread, viewers expressed both admiration and unease over the accelerating development of the machines. Experts have mixed views. China’s dancing robots: how worried should we be?
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The release of Alibaba’s latest Qwen model challenges proprietary AI model economics with comparable performance on commodity hardware. While US-based labs have historically held the performance advantage, open-source alternatives like the Qwen 3.5 series are closing the gap with frontier models. This offers enterprises a potential reduction in inference costs and increased flexibility in deployment
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Videos created by new Seedance 2.0 generator go viral, including one of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fightingBusiness live – latest updatesByteDance, the Chinese technology company behind TikTok, has said it will restrain its AI video-making tool, after threats of legal action from Disney and a backlash from other media businesses, according to reports.The AI
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He speaks English. She speaks Mandarin. The secret to their happy marriage: Microsoft Translator.
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More than a decade into Beijing’s push for self sufficiency, Chinese firms are producing fewer, lower-performing chips than their foreign competitors.
How China Built a Chip Industry, and Why It’s Still Not Enough Read More »
Major Chinese technology companies Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei are pursuing agentic AI (systems that can execute multi-step tasks autonomously and interact with software, data, and services without human instruction), and orienting the technology toward discrete industries and workflows. Alibaba’s open-source strategy for agentic AI Alibaba’s strategy centres on its Qwen AI model family, a set
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He has been jailed, tracked and threatened by China’s government. What was it like pay a visit home? As he publishes a polemic about surveillance and state control, he relives a momentous trip to see his motherAi Weiwei is talking me through the decision-making process before his first visit to China in over a decade.
It’s often assumed that lower birthrates could help slow climate change and A.I. disruption. The reality is more complex.
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Beijing wants to lead the world in developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence, but it also wants companies to adhere to an increasingly complex set of rules.
Move Fast, but Obey the Rules: China’s Vision for Dominating A.I. Read More »
