Chinese authorities are using artificial intelligence to turbocharge surveillance and censorship, with the technology predicting public demonstrations and monitoring prison inmates, according to a new report.

But the Beijing-based company’s broader goal has been the development of a larger, partially reusable rocket to meet China’s growing appetite for satellite services. LandSpace finds itself in a crowded field of competitors, with China’s legacy state-owned rocket developers and a slate of venture-backed startups also in the mix.

Generative AI is poised to reshape the supply of premium screen content, with VP of Chinese online media giant Tencent and CEO of Tencent Video Sun Zhonghuai forecasting that as much as a third of long-form film and animation could be "dominated by or deeply involving AI" within two years,

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang lobbied Trump and Republican senators to allow sales of advanced AI chips to China, arguing export restrictions won’t slow Beijing’s advancement.

Wang Weixiu, founder of optical device maker Zhongji Innolight, has seen his fortune climb to $13 billion amid surging demand from Google for its products in the AI race.

Australia's Fortescue said on Wednesday that it would cooperate with a subsidiary of China Baowu, the world's largest steelmaker, to explore new green technology for accelerating decarbonisation in the hard-to-abate steel industry.

Seven Chinese universities plan to launch an "embodied intelligence" major as Beijing races to build a pipeline of robotics and AI talent.

A private Chinese space firm successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to orbit but failed in its historic attempt to re-land the rocket booster Wednesday – the first such trial by a Chinese firm as the country’s growing commercial space sector races to catch up with American rivals like SpaceX.

Canadian tech startup Cohere's CEO Aidan Gomez said on Thursday the U.S. and Canada hold an "incredible position" to partner with economies adopting AI around the world, putting the countries in the lead against China in the global AI race.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing online retailer Temu and its parent company PDD Holdings Inc., claiming the Chinese company is stealing customers' data and violating state consumer protection laws.