A robot horse and dancing humanoids are among the machines that have been showcased by Chinese manufacturers at a conference in Beijing. The five-day 2026 World Robot Conference, which started on Wednesday, comes as the country continues to expand its robotics industry. On the day the conference kicked off, the world’s biggest humanoid robot maker
But now Zhu can sense this freedom being curtailed. She says she finds herself encountering authorities more often in Hong Kong than in mainland China. At one bookshop event, she recalls government officials entering the premises. “They just sat there listening alongside us.” Increasing raids have not only targeted explicitly political shops, according to a
The founder of Evergrande, the property giant at the centre of China’s housing market slump, has been sentenced to life in prison and had all of his personal property confiscated. Hui Ka Yan pleaded guilty in April to several charges, including embezzlement of assets and corporate bribery. Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court also fined his former
Regulators and researchers spent the past year warning that Chinese AI models like DeepSeek come with Beijing’s censorship baked in, but a growing body of research suggests American AI models may not be entirely immune from it. A peer-reviewed study published in Nature found evidence that Chinese state-controlled media makes its way into AI training
Just months into the marriage, debt collectors started calling, alleging she owed them money. Wang grew suspicious and wanted to know what else she had kept hidden. He checked her phone and found details of her former life, her birth certificate and former marriage documents. When he confronted her, she offered him a divorce, but
Yiyang Zhuge learned last week that when you go extremely viral, the people you have been following for years suddenly start following you back. Zhuge logged onto X and found that a string of famous professors and scholars were in her list of new followers. A PhD candidate in political philosophy at Boston College, Zhuge
