Xpeng debuted its flying car in Germany. It has 7,000 orders and a factory that can build 10,000 a year.
Xpeng debuted its flying car in Germany. It has 7,000 orders and a factory that can build 10,000 a year.

Xpeng debuted the Land Aircraft Carrier at a launch event in Munich on Wednesday, the first time the Chinese automaker has shown its modular flying car outside Asia. The vehicle is a six-wheeled ground unit, called the Mothership, with a detachable two…

Trump’s AI advisor says Kimi K3 shows “how you lose the AI race.” Khosla blames immigration. Marcus wants a congressional investigation.
Trump’s AI advisor says Kimi K3 shows “how you lose the AI race.” Khosla blames immigration. Marcus wants a congressional investigation.

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 topped Arena’s frontend coding leaderboard within 24 hours of launch, ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol. It placed third on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index. The reaction from Washington, Wall St…

China will tax lithium and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, but sodium batteries stay exempt
China will tax lithium and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, but sodium batteries stay exempt

China will impose a consumption tax on lithium-ion and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, marking a policy shift as Beijing seeks to rein in overcapacity and destructive price wars in industries it spent years subsidising into global domin…

The AI boom’s least glamorous winner just filed for a $5bn listing, and it wires Google and Amazon’s data centres
The AI boom’s least glamorous winner just filed for a $5bn listing, and it wires Google and Amazon’s data centres

While attention fixes on Nvidia and the AI models, the companies quietly wiring the data centres together are booming. Eoptolink, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn, Bloombe…

A Chinese open-source model just triggered another AI selloff. The panic says more about US spending than about Kimi.
A Chinese open-source model just triggered another AI selloff. The panic says more about US spending than about Kimi.

A new Chinese AI model has rattled global markets, sending tech and chip stocks sharply lower. Moonshot’s Kimi K3 surprised investors and helped fuel a broad selloff, Bloomberg reports. Traders quickly labelled it a “Kimi moment”, echoing the DeepSeek …

China’s BrainCo showed a platform that lets you control robots with your mind
China’s BrainCo showed a platform that lets you control robots with your mind

Picture a lightweight headset. You think about picking up a cup, and a robot arm reaches out and does it. No button, no voice command, no movement. BrainCo drew crowds with that demo at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, the South China Mornin…

An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech
An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech

Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. Ask it to criticise a repressive one, and it is far more likely to refuse. That is the finding of a new study from the Oversight Board. The board…

Xi tells World AI Conference no single country should monopolise AI
Xi tells World AI Conference no single country should monopolise AI

Xi Jinping told the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday that artificial intelligence “should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation,” casting Beijing as the patron of open, shared technology. Th…

29 countries sign a treaty to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization
29 countries sign a treaty to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization

Twenty-nine countries signed an agreement on 16 July to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), Reuters reported. China says the intergovernmental body aims to promote international cooperation and global governance in AI. China’s fore…

Xpeng’s L03 is the first Chinese EV to put proprietary AI driving chips in a mass-market car
Xpeng’s L03 is the first Chinese EV to put proprietary AI driving chips in a mass-market car

Xpeng debuted the L03 on Wednesday in Munich, launching its most internationally ambitious electric vehicle simultaneously across 65 markets. The coupe-SUV is built around the company’s proprietary Turing AI chips, with every trim shipping at least one…