artificial intelligence

Embodied A.I. Deployment in China Races Ahead

On Saturday, Beijing hosted the world’s first half-marathon in which humans competed alongside humanoid robots. Among the 21 robots to compete, six completed the race, and the winning robot required several battery changes to...

Hoping to Boost Economy, Xi Summons Tech CEOs

On Monday, Xi Jinping presided over a highly publicized meeting with CEOs from China’s tech giants. In the eyes of many observers, the meeting served as a signal that, after years of relentless regulatory crackdowns on the...

Geopolitical Currents Dissuade Chinese Tech Talent Emigres

As geopolitical competition and national security continue to dominate the China-U.S. relationship, Chinese nationals are finding it increasingly difficult to live in the U.S. This month, Tsinghua University highlighted top chip...

DeepSeek AI Raises Censorship and Data-Security Concerns

Chinese AI company DeepSeek has taken the world by storm by releasing its latest AI chatbot. The free chatbot has been touted as mostly open-source, more efficient, and by certain measures better performing than the latest...

Cost of Raising Children in China is World’s Second Highest

China’s population decline looks set to continue despite the possibility of a traditional Dragon-Year “baby bump” and signs of a post-pandemic uptick in marriage rates after nine successive years of decline. A recent report from...

CDT Editors’ Picks: The Best of 2023

These are CDT editors’ selections of their favorite posts from CDT and elsewhere around the web over the course of 2023: Sophie Beach CDT Pick: Translation: The Women of “Salt Town,” by Cindy Carter I found this...

Xiaomi’s Patriotic AI Malfunction Censored on Weibo

In July, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s powerful internet regulator, published a new law governing generative artificial intelligence products and mandating that they uphold core socialist values. A recent...

Generative AI Apps Removed from Apple’s Chinese App Store

Earlier this week, Apple removed over 100 generative AI and ChatGPT-related apps from its mainland Chinese store in response to new Chinese government regulations on managing generative AI. The regulations were introduced in...

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