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A Hangzhou mother says the infant-care nurse she paid nearly 10,000 yuan a month mocked her body and her feeding choices until she was diagnosed with somatic pain. The case has struck a nerve over the trust Chinese families must place in a fast-growing, lightly vetted industry.

Tech

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.

News & Politics

New York Prosecutor Reopens the Cornell Fraternity Rape Case Trending Across China

Two years after prosecutors declined to bring charges, the district attorney in Ithaca, New York has reopened the criminal investigation of a 2024 assault at a Cornell University fraternity — a case that has become one of the most widely discussed foreign news stories on the Chinese internet.