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Despite intense political pressure to go local, China's top AI labs — including those behind DeepSeek, Kimi K3, and Alibaba's models — are still training on Nvidia chips. One researcher says…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman praised his team not just for building frontier AI but for doing so with a focus on business privacy, low…
Moore Threads nearly wiped out its net loss while posting a 147% revenue surge to 1.7 billion yuan in the first half of 2026 —…
Chinese-led physicists have delivered the strongest-ever experimental evidence for the glueball — a particle made purely of…
Chinese open-weight AI models have driven LLM inference prices down 40% in weeks — forcing OpenAI to slash GPT-5.6 Luna pricing…
After 50 years of theoretical prediction and 15 years of targeted experimentation, a Chinese-led team of 700 scientists has…
A 500-year reconstruction of Yangtze River floods finds that embankments and lake reclamation — built to protect people — have…
China's AI ambitions face a threat chips cannot solve: high-quality Chinese-language training data could run out within six…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the Astra model is powerful and destined for general release, but its cyber capabilities require…
