Chinese platforms including Tencent and Alibaba have refused Doubao’s screen-automation access, exposing a contest over who controls app interfaces, user data and mobile commerce.

A podcast examines three reported deaths in Chinese gene-therapy studies and the researcher-initiated trial model, where ethics review and risk controls are under scrutiny.

A Chinese rights roundup reports prolonged questioning of a labor advocate and protests by tobacco farmers in Yunnan over low purchase prices, revealing pressure on both organizers and rural livelihoods.

China reported R&D spending of 3.9 trillion yuan (about $583 billion), with faster growth in basic research and university funding as US research budgets face cuts.

Chinese enterprise clients are asking AI deployment engineers to automate work, monitor staff or eliminate teams, while many requests outrun what current systems can reliably deliver.

Houmo Intelligent says it is developing complementary SRAM compute-in-memory paths, trading among model capacity, memory bandwidth, power and packaging constraints for edge AI.

At a Manila forum, China’s ambassador urged both sides to prevent maritime disputes from driving a cycle of retaliation and argued that the Philippines can maintain ties with both powers.

A Chinese drone-show supplier says it is using its fleet-control experience and flight data to develop autonomous aircraft for GPS-denied interiors and hazardous sites.

Chinese coverage casts a US proposal to blacklist 58 universities and 62 technology labs as Cold War-style overreach, while critics warn it could freeze scientific collaboration.

A defense-technology team says its 65-gram-class aircraft can navigate indoors without GPS using onboard vision and a 0.8-TOPS module; it reports more than 5,000 units ordered this year.

Douyin’s discount app Dou Sheng Sheng reportedly reached about 22 million daily users during a heavily subsidized launch, then slowed as the company reduced subsidies, raised commissions and pulled back traffic.

A Sinocism roundup highlights messaging ahead of the Fifth Plenum and a Xi Jinping passage warning against officials who profess loyalty but obstruct policy in practice.

China displayed drone interceptors and other uncrewed systems at a Beijing counterterrorism forum, where delegates discussed how emerging technology could enable new attacks.

Tencent is scaling a short-drama product inside WeChat to challenge ByteDance’s Red Fruit, whose free, ad-supported model has built a large audience and substantial viewing time.

An Ant Ling product executive says open-weight models are a product strategy and argues the industry needs better evaluations rather than treating current leaderboards as the final word.

Japan is using overseas suppliers and partners to address military capability gaps amid concern about a potential regional conflict involving China.

MetaLoop AI, founded by Tsinghua professor Liu Ziming, has raised several hundred million yuan (roughly $30–60 million) to build systems that select or design specialized models rather than generate text.

Tomato Novel’s new rules require its lowest-ranked writers to complete 150,000 or 300,000 characters before applying for a contract, shifting the cost of platform quality control onto newcomers.

IDC data cited by Solidot show Chinese smartphone shipments down 15.4% year over year, with Huawei the only major brand posting double-digit growth as memory costs push prices higher.

XHEART has brought in China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies alongside Renault and Chery, deepening ties between an automotive AI chip designer, vehicle makers and a domestic memory supplier.

Lenovo has begun selling a 29,999-yuan laptop (about $4,200) with Nvidia’s RTX Spark N1X; the launch touts 128GB of unified memory and local support for models over 100 billion parameters.

Researchers in China have found a 150-million-year-old flightless early bird, evidence that flightlessness may have existed before some bird lineages evolved powered flight.

China’s embassy in Thailand warns of repeated cases in which Chinese nationals are allegedly recruited with lucrative job or business offers, then detained and trafficked toward the Thai-Myanmar border.

Leapmotor says standardized cells and deeper supplier control can let automakers tailor battery cost and performance by vehicle, rather than relying entirely on catalog products from battery makers.

Chinese robot kiosks are expanding across tourist areas, where visitors may treat the robots as an attraction even as conventional convenience stores face falling traffic and margins.

China invited White House spokeswoman Katie Zacharia to visit after she said the country lacked proper toilets, turning a disparaging comment into a brief diplomatic exchange.

Wang Yi used a meeting in Zagreb to promote China-Croatia cooperation, argue for dialogue on EU-China trade and reiterate Beijing’s positions on Taiwan and a multipolar order.

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing says the market broadly supports moving from T+2 to T+1 settlement, with a transition targeted for the second half of 2028.

JD.com says it will support employee Zuo Qi’s counterclaim and report Douyin over alleged public-opinion manipulation, as Douyin says it will pursue its own defamation case.

A scholar’s account uses classroom experience at Tsinghua to explore how students perceive renewed US-China dialogue alongside unresolved disputes over chips, export controls and AI.

Wang Yi called for aid access to Gaza and a reversal of settlement expansion during talks with Israel’s president, according to China’s foreign ministry.

A Huawei engineer’s Linux kernel patch would turn on CPU boost for supported ACPI CPPC processors by default, prompting debate about performance policy and power-management complexity.

JD.com is selling products at direct-discount prices without deposit-based presales and is promoting home care, auto maintenance and other services as e-commerce growth slows.

A Chinese analysis argues that domestic platforms are racing into personal agents because a breakthrough could create a new interface, even though costs and super-app barriers make the business difficult.