Sports club Suzhou Shishan opened the Chinese city’s first pickleball court in January 2024, according to the company. Suzhou Shishan BEIJING — While the U.S. pickleball craze is still going strong, China’s is only just getting started. Online sales of pickleball paddles and related equipment in China have skyrocketed this year to an average of…
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his opening remarks at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Tianjin on Sept. 1, 2025. Evelyn Cheng TIANJIN, China — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday urged members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to strengthen artificial intelligence cooperation, while rejecting what he called a “Cold War mentality.” Xi was speaking…
In 2025, Roborock launched a vacuum cleaner with a robotic arm for moving socks and other obstructions out of the way. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — Household robots for cleaning are about to quickly become an affordable reality. At least that’s what Quan Gang, president of Beijing-based robot vacuum cleaner company…
U.S. President Donald Trump waves from the roof of the West Wing of the White House as he takes a tour on August 05, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Donald Trump signed Thursday an executive order that lays the groundwork to add alternative assets such as…
Kuaishou’s Kling AI platform generates video from text and still images. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s video-heavy entertainment world has yielded a trove of data for companies — and they’re now ramping up money-making artificial intelligence tools for generating ads and film clips. TikTok parent ByteDance holds the first and third…
Containers reflected in a puddle following a rainfall, at the Yantian port in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China May 9, 2025. Tingshu Wang | Reuters BEIJING — China’s official gauge for manufacturing activity on Thursday pointed to a worse-than-expected contraction in July amid slower economic growth and ongoing U.S. trade tensions. The Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index…
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference kicked off in Shanghai on Saturday, July 26, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese companies are making smarter artificial intelligence models that are increasingly cheaper to use, echoing key aspects of DeepSeek’s market-shaking breakthrough. Startup Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu, announced Monday that its new GLM-4.5…
Chinese Premier Li Qiang spoke at the opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Saturday, July 26, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images SHANGHAI — The tech race between the world’s two largest economies just intensified. China on Saturday released a global action plan for artificial intelligence, calling for international cooperation…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a roundtable discussion at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025. Sarah Meyssonnier | Reuters BEIJING — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised China’s generative artificial intelligence models, a day after the U.S. chipmaker said it expected…
An AI sign at the MWC Shanghai tech show on June 19, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — The latest Chinese generative artificial intelligence model to take on OpenAI’s ChatGPT is offering coding capabilities — at a lower price. Alibaba-backed startup Moonshot released on late Friday night its Kimi K2 model: a…
