Australia just posted its biggest month ever for electric car sales, and for the first time seven different EVs each cleared 1,000 units in a single month.
Every one of them is either Chinese-owned or Chinese-built — and that includes the Tesla Model Y…
The letter reads like a founder’s article of faith. The share sale underneath it tells a harder story. The founder of MiniMax has told staff he will take no salary until the Chinese AI company builds artificial general intelligence. On the same day, Mi…
SpaceX lands its rockets on legs. Blue Origin uses a platform. China just caught one in a giant net. China has recovered the first stage of an orbital rocket for the first time. The milestone pulls it into a club with only two other members. On Friday,…
Three Chinese tech giants are on a US military blacklist. All three can still buy America’s best AI, as long as they buy it in the right country. Three of China’s biggest technology companies sit on a US military blacklist. All three can still reach so…
Two robots that look roughly like people just reached inside a live animal and removed an organ. No film studio staged the scene. It happened in a lab in California, and it is a first for medicine. Surgeons at the University of California San Diego use…
Manus was, briefly, one of the most valuable exits in Chinese AI. Meta agreed to buy the agentic AI startup for more than $2bn late last year, then watched Beijing block the deal on national-security grounds. Now the company is being bought back by the…
China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG) has put the world’s largest solar PV-plus-concentrated-solar hybrid into commercial trial operation in the Gobi Desert — and its headline trick is delivering power after sunset without a single lithium battery.
The …
The company behind China’s Alipay just gave away an AI that builds a playable video game world and keeps it running for a full hour. Robbyant, the robotics arm of fintech giant Ant Group, open-sourced its LingBot-World 2.0 world model this week. It gen…
While the world watched the World Cup, robots played their own version in Incheon. RoboCup 2026 ran from 30 June to 6 July in Songdo, drawing teams from dozens of countries. When the whistle blew, one name was behind every winner. Teams using robots fr…
A suspected Chinese espionage group has been breaking into university mail servers across the United States and Canada. It has stolen credentials from staff in physics, engineering, and national security research. Security firm Proofpoint disclosed the…