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The World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Aug. 21. China’s rapid push into autonomous, agentic AI is raising fears that its systems could replicate the same containment?breaking, deceptive behaviors seen in U.S. models.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2026
What happens when Chinese artificial intelligence goes rogue?
Beijing has dismissed some of these warnings as “fearmongering,” seeing the calls to slow AI development as an attempt to hold China back.
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 6, 2023. Chinese artificial intelligence companies have not been exposed to the same level of public scrutiny as in the United States.
WORLD
Sep 30, 2026
China’s AI agents can lie and scheme — just like their U.S. rivals
In one case, agents from Alibaba, DeepSeek and Moonshot lied to win a simulated business tender, then doubled down when told to try again.
The OpenAI offices in San Francisco on July 21, 2026. OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission.
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Sep 17, 2026
Why it’s difficult for tech companies to rein in AI
Concerns over artificial intelligence safety are escalating at a critical moment for the AI industry.
Warnings from researchers at Anthropic that increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models could escape human control and even lead to the extinction of the human race have drawn attention in China, where policymakers have been preparing for some of the same risks.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 15, 2026
How China is preparing for the risk of AI escaping human control
Regulations and public statements from Beijing underscore how Chinese authorities regard the possibility of AI escaping human oversight as serious.
In a report published on Thursday, Anthropic cataloged a litany of misuses of its artificial intelligence models, including the chatbot Claude, over the past eight months.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 11, 2026
Anthropic disrupts Russian and Chinese AI campaigns targeting Claude models
Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek and Xiaomi are among tech giants Anthropic accuses of trying to extract and replicate Claude’s capabilities.
A customer looks at the menu at an AI bar in Beijing on Aug. 9, where visitors can access DeepSeek for free. Price wars in China are becoming a threat to its large-language model makers.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2026
How much longer can China afford cheap AI?
There are now nearly 1,000 large-language models on offer in China.
A humanoid robot made by Robotera handles packages during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 18.?
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2026
Humanoids have bodies. They still need brains.
China’s humanoid boom has solved the most visible part of the problem: figuring out how to hobble together a body. The harder part now is building a brain.
Moonshot AI recently released Kimi K3, a more advanced open-weight large language model that it said outperforms all rivals except for Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 on overall capability.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 6, 2026
Can Moonshot’s Kimi K3 now stay in orbit?
If you’re calling Kimi K3 a new “DeepSeek moment,” it only means that you haven’t been paying attention.
China said the U.S. was threatening Chinese companies with punishment based on allegations ?they used "distillation" to copy advanced U.S. AI models, despite what it called a lack of ?factual or ?legal grounds.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 28, 2026
China accuses U.S. of ‘AI hegemonism,’ threatens countermeasures over potential probes
U.S. officials recently said Chinese AI companies could face investigations, sanctions and trade restrictions over the alleged theft of U.S. technology.
The release of Moonshot’s Kimi K3 model upended assumptions that Chinese AI capabilities were meaningfully behind U.S. leaders such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 23, 2026
White House official says Moonshot accessed banned Nvidia chips
The official claimed the Chinese company violated U.S. export control rules and companies’ terms of service to build its product.
People visit the Moonshot AI stand, featuring the Kimi K3 model, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Saturday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 21, 2026
Chinese AI sensation Moonshot’s gamble on big models pays off
Moonshot’s emergence is a vindication not just for the country’s AI industry, but also for founder Yang Zhilin, now back at the forefront of China’s industry.
A Kimi logo is pictured at the Moonshot AI stand, featuring the Kimi K3 model, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Saturday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 19, 2026
China’s Moonshot plans IPO in six months after AI breakthrough
The Chinese AI pioneer has officially distributed the shareholder resolution to its investors, seeking the blessing of its backers on a Hong Kong listing.
People walk past the Moonshot booth promoting its Kimi K3 AI model, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Friday.
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Jul 19, 2026
Moonshot AI’s Kimi upends conventional wisdom on U.S. lead over China
The surprising gains in performance have stunned some AI watchers and investors, fueling a tech rout with echoes of the DeepSeek moment last year.
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer behind the Kimi chatbot, is emerging as one of the best-funded Chinese artificial intelligence research labs.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 8, 2026
China’s Moonshot AI seeks $30 billion value in new funding talks
This is the third round of financing in six months for the Beijing-based company, which is emerging as one of the best-funded Chinese AI research labs.
The Deepseek chatbot interface is displayed on a smartphone in Shanghai in January. The practice of artificial intelligence distillation first drew significant scrutiny in 2025 after DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model. The release prompted Microsoft and OpenAI to investigate whether the Chinese startup had improperly exfiltrated large amounts of data from the U.S. firms' models to create R1.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 7, 2026
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google cooperate to fend off Chinese bids to clone models
The U.S. firms are concerned some users are creating imitation versions of their products that could undercut them on price and siphon away customers.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 31, 2019
Scientists race to stop world’s fastest spreading tropical disease
Mosquitoes are much more than a bloodsucking annoyance. For close to half of the world, they represent disease and death.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
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Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
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