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China would not let Meta keep Manus. Users have until 24 August to save their work

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Manus is leaving Meta. The Chinese agent startup told users this week that it will “soon return to operating as an independent company”. That is not a change of heart. Beijing refused to let the acquisition stand, and Meta chose not to fight it. The unwinding has a cost, and customers are paying part of […]

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The man who built Qwen has a new lab, and the Shanghai government is an investor

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The researcher who led Alibaba’s Qwen models has started his own company. Junyang Lin announced Pragmatik Labs on X on Tuesday evening, five months after walking out of Alibaba. The lab is based in Shanghai and works on what Lin calls next-generation agents across digital and physical worlds. Gaorong Ventures and HSG, the firm formerly […]

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China bets on AI weather forecasting as extreme storms close in

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As Typhoon Dolphin bore down on China’s coast this week, the country’s bet on artificial intelligence to read the skies looked less like a research curiosity and more like national infrastructure. Extreme weather is intensifying, the cost of getting a forecast wrong is rising, and Beijing is pouring resources into models that promise to see […]

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Amkor weighs a $1bn-plus stake sale in its China chip unit

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Amkor Technology, one of the world’s largest outsourced chip assembly and testing firms, is weighing a sale of a stake in its China operations, a deal that could value the unit at between $1bn and $1.5bn, according to Bloomberg. The Arizona-based company, which has been pouring record sums into advanced packaging, has engaged an adviser to […]

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China just closed a gap in chipmaking that nobody talks about. The wafer size tells you how far it has to go.

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Hwatsing Technology, China’s leading producer of chemical mechanical polishing equipment, announced a metrology system for six-inch wafers on Thursday that can be built directly into the polishing workflow. The company describes it as China’s first six-inch metrology system paired with CMP equipment. The integration is the substantive part. Rather than measuring wafers separately after processing, the system […]

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China opens a cybersecurity review into Palo Alto Networks

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China has trained its regulators on one of America’s biggest security companies. Authorities have launched a cybersecurity review into Palo Alto Networks, a move that deepens an already tense standoff. The review is a powerful instrument. In China, this kind of examination can restrict a company’s ability to sell into critical sectors while it is […]

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Unitree’s IPO could value China’s robot champion at $7bn or more

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China’s best-known robot maker is about to test the public markets. Unitree could be worth more than 50 billion yuan, roughly $7bn, after its Shanghai listing, according to its IPO sponsor.The estimate comes from CITIC Securities. As the deal’s sponsor, CITIC set out the valuation as Unitree kicked off pricing for its float on Shanghai’s […]

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Chinese carriers were pushed out of US networks. A House report says they never left

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The Salt Typhoon hack that breached America’s biggest phone carriers had a back door hiding in plain sight. A bipartisan House report has a blunt finding. Three Chinese state-owned carriers, pushed out of the US years ago, never fully left. Their leftover footholds, it says, may have helped keep the hackers’ infrastructure alive. US regulators […]

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Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t

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Open-weight AI models have nearly caught the frontier on capability. On safety, they have not. And once the weights are public, no lab can enforce a guardrail. A new evaluation of China’s leading open model makes the gap concrete. GLM-5.2, the open-weight model from China’s Z.ai, is only a few months behind OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and […]

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$26,000 lab monkeys are the strange measure of China’s biotech boom

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The clearest sign of China’s drug-development surge is not a molecule but a monkey. The price of a research primate there has climbed toward 150,000 yuan, roughly $26,000, and it keeps rising. That is a steep jump in a short time. The figure is up from an average of about 103,000 yuan in 2025, though […]

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