Z.ai has completed a 1-gigawatt AI data center powered entirely by Chinese-made chips, challenging US sanctions and Nvidia's dominance in AI training infrastructure....
China’s daily AI token calls reached 140 trillion by March 2026, a 1,000-fold increase driven by AI agent adoption, signaling a massive shift in scale and infrastructure demand....
OpenAI and the US government are weighing bans on Chinese open-weight models, but the real risk is not safety — it is that cheaper open models will shift the AI ecosystem away from American frontier labs....
Alibaba unveils Qwen 3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight multimodal model, challenging Moonshot’s Kimi K3 and intensifying China’s AI competition as Moonshot prepares for a possible IPO....
AI security firm PromptArmor finds that ChatGPT and Claude connectors change constantly, adding tools and third-party AI services that expand the enterprise attack surface far beyond the model itself....
British AI Security Institute finds open-weight models like GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro now match frontier cyber capabilities from four months ago at a fraction of the cost, shrinking the defender preparation window....
China launches the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization with 29 founding members, offering 5,000 AI training slots to the Global South as a direct challenge to US-led AI governance....
Netflix confirms AI is used in 300 productions, with tools like Interpositive and Eyeline reshaping post-production as global rivals from China race to own the generative video stack....
Chinese memory giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) saw its $4.3 billion Shanghai IPO oversubscribed 212 times by retail investors, with DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng’s High-Flyer Quant fund also bidding. The frenzy signals mainstream investor confidence in Beijing’s push for semiconductor independence....
South Korea plans to launch a sovereign AI model specializing in cybersecurity by year-end after U.S. export controls blocked access to Anthropic's Mythos 5, accelerating Seoul's push for AI self-sufficiency....
