China's draft rules would leave most drug-licensing deals and contract research outside controls while restricting transfers of certain biotech platforms; the distinction is between exporting products and giving away reusable capabilities.

Ulanqab is using cool weather, low-cost power and fast links to Beijing to attract AI data centers, bringing new technical jobs to a region better known for potatoes and wind power.

Chinese startup VAST says EdenLive can render interactive scenes at more than 24 frames per second on one RTX 5090 by separating world-state management from visual generation, and has released the model and inference code.

At the Canton Fair, a Guangzhou robotics company extended humanoid demonstrations into multilingual guiding and other tasks, raising the harder question of whether skills transfer beyond a staged interaction.

A firsthand account of collecting embodied-AI training data shows the repetitive human labor behind robotics progress, and the tension of workers training systems that may eventually automate parts of their jobs.

Hong Kong reports record-low births alongside rising special-needs diagnoses and a decade-high count of youth suicides, prompting an examination of how schools and social services turn uncertainty into screened risks.

At a Beijing forum, former commerce minister Chen Deming urged better support for Chinese companies investing abroad, defended China's trade surplus and argued that AI would not replace human intelligence.

Premier Li Qiang urged Uzbekistan to deepen cooperation with China in minerals, energy, finance and AI, as Beijing competes with Washington for influence in Central Asia.

The Wire China argues that Europe may need to use trade tools beyond product-specific import limits if China's economic model persists, framing the dispute as a structural conflict rather than a tariff spat.

Chinese startup Guoyu Xingchen raised nearly 100 million yuan (about $14M) to develop spacecraft for refueling, repair and other in-orbit services, betting that satellite operations will become a business beyond launch and deployment.

Chen Guangyu, a young researcher credited on Kimi architecture work, says he has left Moonshot AI for the San Francisco Bay Area but has not joined Anthropic or named his next employer.

The Wire China asks whether recent reports signal progress toward domestic lithography tools, a critical chipmaking bottleneck sharpened by US restrictions on advanced equipment.

MemSilicon raised more than 400 million yuan (about $56M) to commercialize RRAM and begin work on a low-latency inference processor, betting that memory movement matters as much as raw compute for agent workloads.

A growing number of Chinese founders are using family offices to invest directly in startups, offering a market-oriented alternative as state-linked capital brings more regional and policy obligations to venture deals.

Xiantao has built a reported 12-billion-yuan (about $1.7B) eel value chain around artificial breeding, trading, processing and export, turning a rural specialty into a major local employer.

Qian Jiang, a former Johns Hopkins eye-research leader, has returned to China to pursue eye-transplant research and work on computational models of cells at a Zhejiang University-affiliated hospital.

A Chinese analysis argues Google's edge is not one chip but a vertically integrated stack—and that selling TPU capacity beyond its own data centers highlights a gap for Chinese internet firms.

China condemned Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for sending a ritual offering to Yasukuni Shrine, again turning a domestic Japanese political gesture into a flashpoint in bilateral relations.

Meta released open weights for an 816-billion-parameter sparse model aimed at long-running tool use; Chinese coverage stresses that its coding scores trail Chinese models and that local deployment requires costly hardware.

Johns Hopkins cancer researcher Wan Fengyi has returned to China full time and taken a chair professorship at Zhejiang University, a notable move of an established US-based scientist into China's research system.

Guangdong reported 8.72 trillion yuan (about $1.23T) in imports and exports for the first three quarters, with high-tech product exports growing 33% as trade accelerated.

Researchers identified fingerprints on Qin-era warriors that they say may belong to adult women and children as well as men, challenging the assumption that only adult male artisans made the figures.

A Chinese navy hospital ship drew long queues for free consultations in Guinea, providing medical services while extending Beijing's presence and public diplomacy in Africa.

The Wire China frames Beijing's support for basic research against a US pullback, but the supplied excerpt offers no funding figures or specific policy decisions.

A Chinese think tank analysis reportedly urges Beijing to learn from a Pentagon project that identifies future battlefield needs, while avoiding conflicts of interest in the US model.

JD Logistics is consolidating domestic freight capacity through Deppon, while SF is taking a minority stake in J&T to extend overseas last-mile reach, two responses to the limits of capital-intensive delivery networks.

A China-focused report describes farmers and solar developers using the same land for crops and energy generation, with the resulting dual-use expertise also being exported.

As China marks the Long March's 90th anniversary, some young people are turning to its story for a sense of direction amid uncertainty about their futures.

Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning answered a disparaging remark about China's toilets with a brief invitation to visit, turning a US press exchange into a diplomatic and media contrast.

Kuaigou Dache plans to sell its mainland China business for one yuan and refocus on Hong Kong and overseas markets, exiting a mainland operation that reported losses exceeding revenue.

A Chinese commentary portrays AI as both a possible breakthrough and a source of professional anxiety for mathematicians, citing changing views among prominent researchers.

A cross-novel pairing of the Monkey King and Lin Daiyu has surged through AI-generated short videos, while actor Liu Xiaolingtong praised the creativity but warned against crossing legal and audience boundaries.

Sam's Club says accounts used AI-generated and fabricated material to promote products falsely presented as items it had removed from sale, and has complained to platforms and regulators.

ByteDance's public-relations lead disputes a claim that most Chinese AI compute goes to short dramas, saying video-model training and inference account for about 10% of the company's total compute.

Also: Jiemian