The CEO of an Ant-backed humanoid robotics startup has published a letter to OpenAI in Chinese that raises questions about technical and design similarities between the two companies’ recent models. “People often say major tech companies have intelligence networks monitoring the whole internet, this time I believe it, this is a direct distillation of us…
MasterCard and Visa cards are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on March 29, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Fintech company Ant International announced Thursday it has signed on Visa and Mastercard to collaborate on a new standard for payments made via AI agents, in a bet that they will…
XPeng’s humanoid robot IRON is on display during the 2026 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Auto Show on May 31, 2026 in Shenzhen, Guangdong province of China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Chinese companies rushed into electric cars a decade ago, and now they are expanding into humanoid robots as the…
A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. Kacper Pempel | Reuters Security audits weren’t enough to keep many cryptocurrency platforms safe from money-losing hacks, crypto market data site CoinGecko said in a report dated Aug. 27. Between January 2025 and…
The Microduck robot is set to come with a range of pre-installed actions, according to its developers HuggingFace and Pollen Robotics. Pollen Robotics BEIJING — A popular new programmable personal robot from a French-American company is powered by a chip from Shanghai-listed Rockchip which in turn uses British company ARM’s tech, reflecting how intertwined global…
Chinese President Xi Jinping and First Lady Peng Liyuan arrive in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on August 30, 2026, for an official state visit and to attend the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit on September 1. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to make rare state visits to Egypt and,…
The Zhipu or Z.ai logo is pictured on a smartphone on Aug. 14, 2026. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese artificial intelligence company Z.ai released a new model Wednesday that the company claims uses entirely homegrown semiconductors to operate. Called GLM-5.3-Flash, the low-cost version of Z.ai’s flagship model ranks 10th on…
The Huawei booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 2025. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC BEIJING — U.S.-based personal computing and printing firm HP has signed a multi-year global agreement for licensing certain WiFi patents from Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, the companies announced Wednesday. It’s a sign of adoption of Huawei’s technology outside China, despite…
Chinese consumer electronics company Xiaomi showed off its humanoid robot in Beijing at the World Humanoid Conference in August 2026. Evelyn Cheng | CNBC BEIJING — The big challenge for humanoid robots is still getting the technology to work well, according to industry leaders speaking alongside the World Robot Conference in Beijing this week. Robots…
China’s yuan has strengthened against the U.S. dollar this year. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese government bonds can play an important role in portfolio diversification as they are likely to continue behaving differently from other countries’ debt, strategists say. China’s yields have edged down in recent months even as benchmarks in…
