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Nvidia's Jensen Huang and AMD's Lisa Su Join Tsinghua's Advisory Board of Global Tech Chiefs

Tsinghua's School of Economics and Management, whose advisory board was founded at Zhu Rongji's urging and is chaired by Tim Cook, has added Nvidia's Jensen Huang and AMD's Lisa Su ahead of its October meeting in Beijing.

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Trump Orders the US Government to Call AI 'Super Intelligence'

An executive order signed September 29 retires 'artificial intelligence' from federal documents in favor of 'super intelligence' — a rebrand that Chinese observers read as a vocabulary change doing the work of policy, and an invitation for America's tech chiefs to flatter themselves.

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More Than 700 Million Chinese Now Use Generative AI, Official Report Says

A report from the state-affiliated China Internet Network Information Center puts generative AI users above 700 million — an adoption rate over 50 percent — while first-half investment has already nearly doubled all of 2025.

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The World's Tallest Sand-and-Gravel Dam Starts Generating Power in the Tianshan

29 Sep 2026

An elderly visitor in Huangshan tried to film a fish-lantern show and picked up nearly 20 pop-up ads in half a minute. A CCTV investigation into China's 'digital psoriasis' shows how app developers hunt older users — and why the ads keep coming back.

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Nearly 20 Pop-Ups in Half a Minute: How Chinese Apps Ambush Older Users

28 Sep 2026

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How a Tiffany Mooncake Complaint Ended With a Customer's Account Restricted

28 Sep 2026

Zhipu's ZCode coding assistant was found packaging users' entire codebases for upload. After some 400 developers organized, the Hong Kong-listed AI firm apologized, open-sourced the client and, on Sunday, published a compensation plan.

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Zhipu Offers Compensation After Its AI Coding Tool Was Caught Uploading Users' Code

28 Sep 2026

A user asked Doubao, ByteDance's assistant used by hundreds of millions, what share of people die before 70 — and its census-based answer, roughly 35% overall and 40% for men, spread across Chinese social media as an unplanned meditation on mortality.

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Doubao's Answer on Dying Before 70 Struck a Nerve Across China

27 Sep 2026

China's FAST telescope marked ten years since completion with a milestone tally: more than 1,300 pulsars discovered, more than every other telescope combined over the same period, and an array upgrade promising 200-fold sharper resolution.

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Ten Years of China's Sky Eye: 1,300 Pulsars and a Plan to Multiply Its Vision by 200

25 Sep 2026

Dongfeng and Huawei launched their co-created flagship SUV at a promotional price from 279,800 yuan — the sharpest test yet of Huawei's 'native co-creation' model, in which its driver-assistance system commands the whole chassis.

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Huawei's Newest Big Bet on Wheels Is Dongfeng's 279,800-Yuan Yijing X9

24 Sep 2026

A Long March 8A put the 26th group of China's low-orbit internet constellation into orbit on Tuesday night — now routine: the Thousand Sails network is due to complete 324 satellites by year-end, and the planned constellation runs to nearly 13,000.

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Routine by Design: China's Satellite-Internet Constellation Adds Its 26th Group

24 Sep 2026

A hashtag attributing the phrase 'marginal product' to a Doubao employee trended because it matched what users say about ByteDance's AI assistant: the most-installed chatbot in China has a habit of answering confidently when it does not know.

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'Marginal Product': China's Default Chatbot Doubao Has a Trust Problem

24 Sep 2026

With the iPhone Duo's official release barely a month away, supply-chain sources say Foxconn's assembly yield for Apple's first foldable is only just above 60 percent — and suppliers are waiting on Apple to decide whether to relax its quality bar to reach volume.

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Apple's First Foldable Hits a Yield Wall: Just Six in Ten iPhone Duos Pass Assembly

23 Sep 2026

Beijing's five-year plan for the Beidou satellite system calls for industry output to pass one trillion yuan by 2030, up from 629 billion today — and for the GPS alternative built to escape dependence to start winning customers abroad.

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China Sets a Trillion-Yuan Target for Its Homegrown GPS Rival

23 Sep 2026

In an interview that aired as Xi Jinping arrived in the United States, Musk praised China's 'incredible magnificence,' credited Tesla's Shanghai factory to its Chinese team, and predicted a billion humanoid robots within a decade — and state television clipped it into a day-long sermon.

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Elon Musk, on Chinese State TV, Tells the World to Go and See China

23 Sep 2026

The Chinese camera maker's first US flagship opened on Broadway in Times Square on September 19, with the queue reported at over a thousand people, the first customer arriving at 2:30 a.m. — and its newest cameras topping sales charts on both sides of the Pacific.

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A Thousand New Yorkers Queue Around the Block as Insta360 Opens Its First US Store

22 Sep 2026

OPPO launched its Find X10 lineup in three tiers from 4,999 yuan, topping out with a Pro Max that pairs MediaTek's 2nm chip with a triple 200-megapixel camera array and an 8,000mAh battery — another step in the steady price climb of Chinese flagship phones.

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OPPO Puts a 2nm Chip and an 8,000mAh Battery Into Find X10 Flagships Starting at 5,499 Yuan

22 Sep 2026

At the Yunqi conference in Hangzhou, Alibaba's chief executive predicted machines will eventually supply more than a thousand times humanity's thinking, as Xiaomi open-sourced a top-ranked model, Meta's agent app Muse topped the US App Store, and Chinese phones began shipping assistants that operate your apps for you.

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Machine Thoughts, Mass-Produced: Alibaba Opens China's AI Week With a 1,000-to-1 Prediction

22 Sep 2026

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Nvidia's Jensen Huang and AMD's Lisa Su Join Tsinghua's Advisory Board of Global Tech Chiefs

Trump Orders the US Government to Call AI 'Super Intelligence'

More Than 700 Million Chinese Now Use Generative AI, Official Report Says

The World's Tallest Sand-and-Gravel Dam Starts Generating Power in the Tianshan

Nearly 20 Pop-Ups in Half a Minute: How Chinese Apps Ambush Older Users

How a Tiffany Mooncake Complaint Ended With a Customer's Account Restricted

Zhipu Offers Compensation After Its AI Coding Tool Was Caught Uploading Users' Code

Doubao's Answer on Dying Before 70 Struck a Nerve Across China

Ten Years of China's Sky Eye: 1,300 Pulsars and a Plan to Multiply Its Vision by 200

Huawei's Newest Big Bet on Wheels Is Dongfeng's 279,800-Yuan Yijing X9

Routine by Design: China's Satellite-Internet Constellation Adds Its 26th Group

'Marginal Product': China's Default Chatbot Doubao Has a Trust Problem

Apple's First Foldable Hits a Yield Wall: Just Six in Ten iPhone Duos Pass Assembly

China Sets a Trillion-Yuan Target for Its Homegrown GPS Rival

Elon Musk, on Chinese State TV, Tells the World to Go and See China

A Thousand New Yorkers Queue Around the Block as Insta360 Opens Its First US Store

OPPO Puts a 2nm Chip and an 8,000mAh Battery Into Find X10 Flagships Starting at 5,499 Yuan

Machine Thoughts, Mass-Produced: Alibaba Opens China's AI Week With a 1,000-to-1 Prediction