The Canadian data and legal giant Thomson Reuters wants to rely less on costly AI from Anthropic — and it turned to a Chinese open-source model to do it. Thomson Reuters launched its first AI model, Thomson-1, on Monday, and it’s based on Snowdon, which was built by “realigning” an open-source Qwen model from the
The robot uprising may have to wait. For now, the machines are still running headfirst into walls, both literal and metaphorical. That reality was on grand display at the second iteration of the World Humanoid Robot Games, a five-day competition held in China where robots compete in Olympic-style events, which kicked off on Saturday. Notably,
Even one of robotics’ biggest names says that a major breakthrough for the industry may take up to a decade. During a keynote speech at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing on Thursday, Unitree Robotics CEO Wang Xingxing said that the industry’s breakthrough will come only when a robot can perform most tasks without
Christopher Nolan‘s “The Odyssey” will open on more than 20,000 screens across mainland China, including some 90% of the territory’s Imax footprint of nearly 800 sites, distributor data shows. Presale box office of the Universal title reached RMB39.5 million ($5.9 million) as of August 12 (Beijing time), with combined preview and presale grosses hitting RMB91
Kevin O’Leary says fear of China’s rise will be one of the biggest forces uniting the United States, Canada and Mexico. In an interview clip he posted to his X and Instagram, the Canadian venture capitalist and “Shark Tank” investor said there’s only one thing that would drive economic integration in North America: fear of
China’s Kimi K3 has become the latest AI sensation, generating so much interest that developer Moonshot AI temporarily suspended new subscriptions just days after launch. “K3 represented another example where the ability of China’s leading AI labs to keep pace with the US frontier has surprised global investors,” Bernstein analysts led by Robin Zhu wrote
