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Cui Zhe had already won the women's 41kg gold at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games when she called for 120kg, a weight she said she had never lifted in competition. Xinhua says
Manila summoned China's ambassador on Monday over his remark that Beijing could "easily win" if it used force, and China's Foreign Ministry answered the same day by urging the Philippines to rein in "those politicians." The account seen does not
At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 in Shanghai, Huawei unveiled the Atlas 960E SuperPoD, a 4,096-chip AI computing cluster built on Ascend processors. The launch is the clearest sign yet that US semiconductor export
Naive AI, founded in Beijing in February 2026 by Tsinghua professor Dai Jifeng, has raised $400 million from Tencent and HSG at a $1.42 billion valuation. The company is not pre-training from
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, its first model built around agentic workflows, on September 18. The model cuts audio inference costs by 98 percent against its predecessor and handles text, images, audio
Donald Trump will welcome Xi Jinping to the White House on Wednesday amid unverified health questions and with the Strait of Hormuz still closed. The summit carries the Iran war, US-China trade
Scott Bessent and China's Vice Premier He Lifeng opened marathon talks at JP Morgan Chase's Manhattan headquarters on Sunday, covering the expiring tariff truce, rare-earth minerals and AI guardrails. Four days remain
StepFun's Step 5 Preview launches today at $1 per million input tokens — a fifth of OpenAI's price — with open weights coming free of charge in three weeks. The 600-billion-parameter model
China's CXMT says its G5 DRAM platform has entered mass production at 11.95nm — built without ASML's banned EUV machines through DUV quadruple patterning. Two 24Gb LPDDR5X products are already shipping in
With one signature on Friday, Donald Trump gave himself authority to impose 100% tariffs on India and China for buying Russian oil — legislation named after the late Lindsey Graham that may
Araghchi's Beijing visit won Chinese backing for the Iran-Oman Hormuz plan, but Saudi Arabia's last-minute amendments collapsed the multilateral Salalah summit before it could ratify the framework. China's push for a new
Russia and China vetoed a US Security Council resolution to extend Iran's sanctions monitoring panel on Wednesday, the fifth consecutive veto in twelve months. The move leaves the arms embargo without oversight
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