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.

China deploys AI police cars using facial recognition and nonstop patrols, marking a major shift in urban surveillance and automated law enforcement.

In medicine, meanwhile, China has turned itself from a copycat maker of generics into the world’s second-largest developer of new drugs, including those tackling cancer. Western rivals are licensing its firms’ wares.

U.S. strategic competition in 2026. China’s growth model and industrial policy is rooted in dominating the commanding heights of the economy, now defined by Beijing as science, technology, and advanced manufacturing.

Shares of Moore Threads, a Beijing-based graphics processing unit (GPU) manufacturer often referred to as "China's Nvidia," soared by more than 400% on its debut in Shanghai following its $1.1 billion listing. The stock is currently trading at 584.98 yuan, over five times its IPO price of 114.28 yuan.

Seven Chinese universities plan to launch an "embodied intelligence" major as Beijing races to build a pipeline of robotics and AI talent.

Having placed artificial intelligence at the centre of its own economic strategy, China is driving efforts to create an international system to govern the technology’s use.

China’s powerful economic-planning agency warned of the risks of a bubble forming in the country’s humanoid robotics industry, issuing a rare official expression of concern about a pivotal sphere of technology.

China's cruise ship operator Adora Cruises announced on Friday that it will diversify the first-quarter 2026 itineraries of ... Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) arrested eight individuals on Friday in multiple districts, including engineering consultants, ...

A humanoid robot just walked its way into the record books, completing 106 kilometers (66 miles) from Suzhou to Shanghai, while hotswapping its own batteries. The AgiBot A2 became the first machine to complete a walk this long.

Shedd and Badger reveal China's technology theft in the book "The Great Heist," exposing espionage, IP theft and its rise to global power.