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Geologists have found two unexpectedly large freshwater groundwater sources beneath the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang — upending the assumption that only stagnant or saline water exists there, and…
Chinese startup Rayim has built a CT scanner the size of a desktop speaker — just 6kg — with hair-width 80-micrometre resolution,…
A DeepSeek engineer behind the V4.1 models publicly declared he does not want Anthropic to control AGI, invoking Nazi Germany to…
Chinese defence researchers have proposed a 60-tonne nuclear-powered tank with a 50-megajoule railgun capable of hitting targets…
China's generative AI user base rocketed from 249 million to 602 million in just 12 months, with 80% of Chinese consumers using…
China's top tech firms — ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu — are rationing employee AI tokens and introducing co-pay models,…
A coalition including ByteDance, Tsinghua University, and the Shanghai AI Lab has published a five-stage road map for AI that…
McDonald's and Meituan have launched China's first catering brand-exclusive drone-delivery route along Shanghai's West Bund,…
China's researchers and state media have flatly rejected Silicon Valley's 'AI pacing' push, accusing the US of using safety…
