A look at the race between China and the US to build truly useful humanoid robots, as China lists “embodied” AI as a priority for a $138B state investment fund
Recent developments in humanoid robots are grabbing plenty of global attention. Bluesky: Martijn Rasser / @martijnrasser : China's government has said it wants the country to be a world leader in huma...
An analysis of 11 online pharmacies selling abortion pills: at least nine use third-party trackers such as Google Analytics to collect and share sensitive data
Curious about medical abortion for an unplanned pregnancy, I visited the site two months back to order MTP Kit. Onlineabortionpillrx : Buy Mifeprex Online Tweets: Josh Chin / @joshchin : Vital reporti...
The Cyberspace Administration of China will start regulating “deep synthesis” tech like AI-powered image, audio, and text-generation software on January 10
I've an ambitious goal for 2023: Write more out loud. Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Philip Elmer‑DeWitt : China set to crack down on generative AIs Tweets: Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : @_KarenHao China's new...
After China lifted its COVID-19 rules, leading to surging cases, social media censors relax some rules, allowing criticism of protestors but not the government
Austin Ramzy / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @joshchin , @orsoraggiante , and @crehage Tweets: Josh Chin / @joshchin : As Covid-19 sweeps across China following the end of its strict pandemic control...
How China's mass collection of personal info and its new, unevenly enforced data security rules contribute to a thriving underground market for stolen data
Government's mass collection of personal information aids social control but undermines national security, cybersecurity researchers say Tweets: @joshchin , @jchengwsj , @_karenhao , @jchengwsj , @chr...
Sources: Ant Group is in talks with Chinese state-owned companies to create a credit scoring company that will put Ant's vast data under Chinese control
The fintech giant is in discussions to start a new credit-scoring business with Chinese state-owned enterprises Tweets: @jingyanghk , @lingling_wei , and @joshchin Tweets: Jing Yang / @jingyanghk : *O...
Sources: Beijing has sped up development of a blacklist that could punish US tech firms; some leaders say a decision on the list should come after US election
China's answer to the U.S. list of Chinese entities it is targeting for sanctions. https://www.wsj.com/... Josh Chin / @joshchin : Chinese leaders are eager to punch back in fight over tech with the T...
China's $1.4T tech campaign includes a massive 5G project, aiming for 600K base stations by end of 2020, relies on money from private sector, local governments
Beijing plans to spend $1.4 trillion in the next five years in sectors including 5G, artificial intelligence and data centers Tweets: @jaygoldberg , @lizalinwsj , and @joshchin Tweets: @jaygoldberg : ...
China orders Bytedance to shut down app for sharing jokes, silly videos citing vulgar content, a day after its flagship app Toutiao was pulled from app stores
Again Josh Chin / Wall Street Journal : New Target for China's Censors: Content Driven by Artificial Intelligence South China Morning Post : China's king of titillating content Jinri Toutiao issues ap...
Huawei reports strong smartphone sales of 153M in 2017 as net profit rose 28.1% YoY to ~$7.3B on revenue of ~$92.5B, up 15.7% YoY
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