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Manus has raised at least $500 million after its reported Meta deal collapsed, giving the AI startup fresh capital while questions remain over China’s role.

China is reportedly tightening guardrails for AI companions over social-stability concerns, raising new questions for developers, platforms and users.

Morgan Stanley reportedly puts China’s consumer AI opportunity near 300 billion yuan, with Tencent, Alibaba and Meituan positioned to benefit.

A new explainer highlights China’s focus on AI safety and control, but limited source evidence leaves its specific safeguards and implementation unclear.

Hugging Face's CEO says China leads the AI race and open models, raising questions about U.S. coordination, model access, and enterprise AI strategy.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the company does not support banning open-weight AI models, while urging tighter focus on China-related security risks.

Open-source AI releases from China and a policy fight over model access are exposing a growing split between LLM vendors and the builders who depend on them.

Chinese users are mourning vanished AI companions, highlighting how quickly emotional AI products can disappear and why that matters for users and builders.

Free AI chatbots are reshaping China’s college admissions consulting market, putting new price pressure on a business media reports value at $147 million.

China is reportedly developing an AI safety benchmark for large models, a move that could tighten compliance rules for model makers and enterprise AI buyers.

Reuters reports Beijing is considering curbs on overseas access to top Chinese AI models, a move that could reshape AI distribution and compliance.

ByteDance and Alibaba are reportedly disabling some AI agent functions in China, signaling stricter limits on autonomous AI products.

The White House's restrictions on Anthropic's leading AI models may inadvertently give China an opening to close the gap in the global AI race, CNBC reports.

Wired reports on meetings with China's leading AI researchers, revealing mutual anxiety over the US-China AI arms race and the risks of unchecked AI development.

Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 says it has built tools capable of matching Anthropic's Mythos AI, a system designed to detect software vulnerabilities.

Anthropic has accused Chinese tech giant Alibaba of using thousands of fraudulent accounts to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude AI models at scale.

A new generative AI-powered benchmarking system reveals China's dominance in the autonomous vehicle and robotaxi sector over US competitors.

The US government and ASML are at odds over whether the chipmaker's most advanced EUV lithography tool has ended up in China, raising export control concerns.

The White House reportedly suspects a China-linked group gained access to Anthropic's powerful Mythos AI model, a key factor behind the US government's sweeping export control order.

China launched a wind-powered underwater data center near Shanghai as AI demand increases pressure on power and water use.