Beijing has dismissed risk warnings from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and other US AI executives, with the Foreign Ministry describing the appeals to slow AI development as alarmism. State-run outlet Global Times accused Amodei of pursuing a covert AI cold war. Meanwhile, China's security minister has not called for any slowdown in the country's own AI efforts.
A German tech outlet benchmarked four Chinese model families — Kimi, Qwen, GLM and DeepSeek — against established Western offerings such as ChatGPT and Claude. The review examines whether their strong benchmark scores translate into comparable quality in everyday practical use. It concludes that these alternatives offer notable capability at a lower price, though with trade-offs.
Unitree Robotics has gained an edge in the low-cost humanoid robot market, an advantage attributed to founder Wang Xingxing's relentless emphasis on reducing expenses and his hands-on management of the company. The report questions whether that tightly controlled leadership approach can hold up as the business grows.
US President Donald Trump pushed back against proposals to slow down AI development, arguing that halting progress would mainly benefit China. The exchange with Anthropic's chief executive comes ahead of a planned Trump-Xi summit set for late September, which the AI debate is overshadowing.
Beijing pushed back on appeals for Washington to hinder China's AI development, calling such arguments alarmist. The response came after Anthropic's chief executive urged US action to slow China's progress in the field. Separately, China's top intelligence official said advancing AI could pose a challenge to Communist party governance.
Chinese authorities are moving to tighten oversight of AI companion apps, often marketed as virtual boyfriends or girlfriends, citing concerns about emotional dependence and harmful content. The proposals would place stricter requirements on how such services handle user data and moderate interactions. It marks another step in Beijing's broadening effort to regulate consumer-facing generative AI products.
Graphics card makers saw unusually strong unit sales in the second quarter, according to a market analysis. The uptick may be partly attributable to demand from AI computing facilities in China. The report does not specify which vendors or regions contributed most to the gain.
China has cautioned against what it calls malicious competition in AI development and is calling for coordinated international rules. The statement comes as some US AI company executives have suggested slowing the pace of development. Beijing's position frames joint regulation as the preferred path forward.
Chinese lab AllSpark has published two open-source search agents, Iris-mini and Iris-pro, both built on Qwen base models. The company claims the pair lead benchmarks in their respective size classes. A notable side effect emerged during the agents' search training, according to the report.
Reports from China indicate that CXMT, the country's only domestic producer of high-bandwidth memory, is achieving poor yields on its HBM3 chips and has to discard most of its output. HBM is a key component for AI accelerators, so the shortfall complicates China's efforts to build up domestic AI hardware without foreign suppliers. CXMT has not publicly confirmed the reported yield figures.
US officials allege that several Chinese companies replicated AI models developed by American firms, allowing them to reach comparable performance with less money and shorter development timelines. The accusations reportedly point to specific techniques the companies are said to have used to achieve this. No details on potential penalties or which companies are named were included in the source report.
A report alleges that six Chinese AI companies have closely replicated leading American frontier models rather than developing their own. The claims come alongside reported US government pressure on AI developers to identify Chinese users and quietly downgrade the models they can access. Details on the companies involved and the evidence behind the accusations remain limited.
US authorities say Chinese AI developers including DeepSeek and Alibaba are systematically pulling knowledge out of American models such as those built by OpenAI and Google. The agencies frame the activity as industrial espionage aimed at closing the capability gap at low cost. No details were given on which specific countermeasures might follow.
DeepSeek intends to launch a new model called V4.1 Flash on or near September 10, 2026, Beijing time. According to the company, internal and external testing showed the Flash variant outperforming its V4 Pro model on performance, cost, speed, and task completion time. No independent benchmarks or pricing details were included in the announcement.