China coverage.

Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China

Analysis – In China, the AI bubble has burst

In China, the AI bubble has burst

Volkswagen's China unit and Xpeng secure approvals to trial autonomous driving systems on public roads in China; VW is testing Level 3 and Xpeng Level 4 (Bloomberg)

‘Zero-energy companionship’: bizarre hobby takes seed among China’s stressed young adults

China's big political meeting could see Xi 'tighten discipline' in Party

China's tech giants are paying 1M yuan for a new kind of AI engineer

A look at Toyota's robotics expansion, including its Walden spinoff and a $6.4B annual plan to deploy 400K factory robots, as it competes with Tesla and China (Financial Times)

After threatening AI export bans, China allows DeepSeek to keep selling

Sources detail how Ramp investors Joe Lonsdale and Keith Rabois pushed US lawmakers to probe rival Airwallex's China ties after Airwallex scrapped a Ramp deal (Michael Roddan/The Information)

Xi Jinping’s corruption crackdown in the spotlight as China prepares for meeting of top leaders

China increasingly depends on copying American AI

China's first AI-generated film hits cinemas but ticket sales lag

How could the US and China verifiably slow AI?

Kim Jong-un crosses over newly opened bridge into China

China is coming for the moon. NASAs answer: a faster, leaner plan

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un Arrives in China, South Korea Says

Typhoon Champi kills one and injures more than 500 in Taiwan as it heads to China

Pentagon designates China-backed campus cultural centers a threat to US national security

Report: Apple gains ground in China as smartphone shipments hit 14-year low in Q3

China's first AI-generated feature film to hit cinemas on Friday

China can make advanced chips without EUV, but the bill keeps growing

Volvo Shares Plunge as China Ambitions Fade for Western Carmakers

Illegal Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs found inside state-owned China Telecom's network

China-aligned hackers deploy AI agents in massive ConnectWise supply chain attack

China offered European Commission to join its AI alliance

U.S. Treasury Proposes to Widen Outbound Investment Restrictions for China and Other Countries

US Treasury proposes rules tightening restrictions on US investments in areas including AI and supercomputing in China, Russia, and other "countries of concern" (Associated Press)

Israeli security company Lava finds 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 chips connected to systems linked to state-owned operator China Telecom, despite US controls (Qianer Liu/The Information)

China Moves to Lock Its Own Top AI and Chip Designs Behind Export Controls

How AI is an inherently imperial technology, and how the US and China are building rival "AI empires" with different approaches to extend their power (Foreign Affairs)

Microsoft says China-linked hackers used AI penetration testing tool ARTEX to compromise ConnectWise as part of a campaign targeting hundreds of organizations (AJ Vicens/Reuters)

Alibaba Shares Post Steepest Drop in Two Months on China Curbs - Bloomberg.com

Alibaba Shares Post Steepest Drop in Two Months on China Curbs Bloomberg.com…

China Stocks Set for Bear Market as AI Trade, Policy Hopes Fade - Bloomberg.com

China Stocks Set for Bear Market as AI Trade, Policy Hopes Fade Bloomberg.com…

No order, no seat: Starbucks China rolls out new store policy

Starbucks says it is improving customers' in-store experience as it competes with homegrown rivals.…

Sources: DeepSeek raised ~$15B in its latest fundraising round, one of China's largest ever, with CATL and Tencent among the biggest contributors (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)

The Biggest Winner of Trumpism? China.

What's left for us after AI? China's thinkers have different answers

China criticizes the US DHS's DeepSeek ban, vowing "resolute countermeasures" while rejecting allegations from the FBI and AI labs of illicit distillation (Ephrat Livni/New York Times)

China Moves to Tighten Its Grip Over Exports of Top A.I. Models

Draft rules on the export of artificial intelligence technology show how China is trying to balance national security risks with its desire to outpace the United States.…

China Moves to Tighten Its Grip Over Exports of Top A.I. Models

Sources: Samsung and SK Hynix are upgrading their China fabs to produce NAND flash chips with 200+ layers, aiming to fend off fast-growing Chinese rival YMTC (Reuters)

China Sends Navy After US Warship As Separate Maritime Standoff Erupts Near Taiwan

‘Taiwan has been getting its act together’…

China Condemns U.S. Ban on DeepSeek A.I. in Government Systems

DeepSeek AI tools banned from US government agency systems as rift with China grows

Who is Yuki Chen, China's 'superstar' hacker who just joined AI leader Z.ai?

openEuler brings China's enterprise Linux ambitions to the desktop

OpenAI goes quiet on China chip controls, in a win for Nvidia - The Next Web