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China's AI talent race is starting in high school

By: Kinling Lo

As demand for elite AI engineers outpaces supply, companies are recruiting teenagers through camps, research programs, and guaranteed job pipelines.

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In China, people are renting out their faces to AI

By: Viola Zhou

New platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity.

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Arizona wants Taiwan's investors to think beyond chips

By: Kinling Lo

As Arizona's economic fortunes have become increasingly tied to TSMC and its chip supply chain, it's been keen to diversify the roster of investors beyond tech companies.

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Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers

By: Kinling Lo

Beijing is pioneering regulations that could shape how governments around the world govern emotionally intelligent chatbots.

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Chinese businesses are giving away AI tokens with coffee, credit cards, and dumplings

By: Kinling Lo

Five unexpected ways computing power is entering everyday life in the country. Rest of World/iStock By Kinling Lo

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Playing both sides of the U.S.-China AI “Cold War”

By: Kinling Lo

From Latin America to Southeast Asia, countries are dividing their AI investments between the two superpowers rather than choosing one over the other.

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Dario Amodei wants to slow AI. China isn't taking orders

By: Kinling Lo

Chinese officials and engineers see an attempt to preserve the U.S. lead; “Why do you always get to define the game — and change the rules?”

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The AI boom is making the world's cheapest smartphones disappear

By: Kinling Lo

AI data centers are driving demand for memory chips, pushing phone makers to raise prices and abandon some of their most affordable models.

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AI ends era of cheap smartphones, India sees highest price rise

By: Kinling Lo

This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology's impact outside the West.

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Chinese AI firms want Silicon Valley's top minds. Poaching them won't be easy

By: Kinling Lo, Viola Zhou

Startups like MiniMax and Moonshot are setting up U.S. outposts, but massive pay gaps, weaker prestige, and national security tensions make luring talent away from OpenAI and Anthropic an uphill climb.