Tencent is rolling out a “ClawBot” plug-in for WeChat, reports the South China Morning Post. The move will allow WeChat’s more than 1 billion monthly active users to command their OpenClaw AI agents directly through the app, which is deeply embedded in daily life in China. In recent weeks, almost every Chinese tech giant has announced new […]
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Chinese online shopping site AliExpress said it was improving controls to comply with European Union regulations, reports Reuters. This comes as European lawmakers grilled executives over sales of dangerous and counterfeit products in the bloc. The EU has ramped up scrutiny of fast-growing online platforms like AliExpress, Temu, and Shein which ship cheap products made in […]
Chinese engineers have designed the country’s first tourist submersible equipped to venture as deep as 1,000 metres (3,280 feet) below the ocean surface, reports the South China Morning Post. The move aims to give eventual new momentum to the luxury travel industry. Engineers at the China Ship Scientific Research Centre in Wuxi plan to build a prototype […]
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Taking the lead
A US congressional advisory body has warned that China’s dominance of open-source AI is challenging America’s lead in the tech race, despite restrictions on Chinese access to advanced AI chips. According to Reuters, China’s large language models (LLMs) are already surpassing app downloads such as ChatGPT and Claude in app stores, and Reuters even estimates […]
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The Great Gulf Game
What the China system likes more than anything else is certainty, but the war in Iran is creating situations that are very hard to predict. Beijing has on one level been interested in playing a middleman role, and just a few years ago, very prominently arranged for a detente of sorts between Saudi Arabia and […]