City leaders tour Xi'an's automated "lights-out factory" where production continues without human workers present in Xi'an, ...

China is racing to build a self-sufficient artificial intelligence stack, from cutting edge chips to nationwide deployment, and its leaders now treat that effort with the urgency of a wartime program.

As 2026 dawned, Meta announced a $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a fast-rising artificial intelligence firm specializing in agentic AI. What promised to be a seamless union of U.S. platform power and ...

The city of Baotou—long the heart of the rare-earths mining sector that has given China a stranglehold over the modern economy—is now working to establish entire next-generation production chains. In ...

From initial hype to tangible industrial momentum, the 2025 China Apparel Industry AI Technology Application Summit emerged as a key battleground where fashion companies demonstrated their ...

China, the U.S., Russia and others have ramped up their contest over artificial-intelligence-backed weapons and military systems. The buildup has been compared to the dawn of the nuclear weapons age.