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The article reports that Anthropic and Amazon have reportedly purchased large volumes of physical books, scanned them, and destroyed the originals to reduce copyright risk in AI training. It argues that this strategy is tied to differences in US and Chinese copyright law, while also raising concerns about the irreversible loss of cultural artifacts.
Several Chinese listed companies that announced large AI compute service agreements are now facing cancellations, weak execution, and regulatory scrutiny. The article explains why framework agreements often fail to become real revenue, highlighting customer verification, GPU delivery, payment terms, and termination clauses.
Japanese chemical maker Ajinomoto has reportedly told mainland Chinese customers it will reduce supplies of ABF, a critical chip-packaging film, by 30%. Chinese producers are racing to qualify domestic substitutes following Beijing’s rare-earth export restrictions.
ByteDance and Tencent have reportedly each received 10,000 NVIDIA H200 chips. The deliveries could expand Chinese companies’ access to high-end AI computing despite ongoing U.S. export restrictions.
Nvidia H200 accelerators have begun reaching Chinese technology companies after months of limited export-licence activity. ByteDance and Tencent reportedly received about 10,000 processors each, while other Chinese companies may soon obtain similar quantities, though mainland availability remains uncertain.
Pony AI CEO James Peng says the company plans to expand its robotaxi fleet into more Chinese cities. He expressed optimism that the broader rollout will help meet growing demand.
A court reportedly heard that former Samsung engineers stole process recipes for the company’s 18nm-class DRAM technology for sale to CXMT. One former Samsung engineer who moved to the Chinese memory maker is now reportedly in custody.
An AI-assisted review of 291 Chinese city planning documents found that low-altitude economy appears in 257 cities’ plans for the next five years. Compared with the previous planning cycle, cities replaced nearly half of their listed industry tracks while increasingly adopting numeric portfolio labels.
Oxford researcher Carl Benedikt Frey argues that China’s biggest obstacle to large-scale AI deployment may be inadequate social protection for workers displaced by automation, not computing power or algorithms. The analysis compares China with historical British welfare systems and Denmark’s flexicurity model, while noting that the cited Chinese incidents do not prove a broad AI crackdown.
Generative video in China is shifting from impressive demonstrations to routine use in advertising, e-commerce, and internal content previews. The trend suggests that practical production workflows are gaining traction while at least one prominent overseas consumer experiment is being withdrawn.