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Feb 10 from https://edition.cnn.com/business/tech

China’s AI industry looks unstoppable, but can it overtake the US for tech supremacy?

Hong Kong — When China’s biggest artificial intelligence players gathered for a landmark meeting in Beijing in January, one question was in the spotlight: What are the chances of a Chinese AI firm overtaking US frontrunners in the next three to five years? The answer from a top AI scientist present at the gathering was surprisingly blunt: “Below 20 percent,” said Justin Lin, technical lead...

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Feb 05 from https://restofworld.org/

China is running the EV playbook on humanoid robots — and it’s working

While Silicon Valley spent 2025 polishing its marketing decks for the humanoid future, China was busy shipping the robots. Nearly 90% of all humanoid robots sold globally in 2025 were Chinese, and six of the highest-selling companies in the sector were from the East Asian country. The humanoid robots industry is still in its infancy, but the early advantage accelerates China’s progress in...

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Feb 04 from https://restofworld.org/

To understand China, we need to understand the Chinese internet

To understand China today and where it’ll go tomorrow, we must learn to read the Chinese internet: what goes viral and what disappears just as swiftly, how it shapes and is shaped by the outside world, and how it is controlled from the top down and mobilized from the bottom up. Social media feeds allow us to gauge public opinion when other forms of polling are inaccessible. Censorship...

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