For the past 25 years, top American tech firms including IBM, Cisco, and NVIDIA helped build China’s digital police state, an Associated Press investigation revealed Tuesday. The report shows these companies sold billions of dollars in technology that became the foundation of China’s vast surveillance network. This equipment enabled severe human rights abuses, from the…
A lawmaker in China’s financial hub of Shanghai has called for the lifting of strict internet controls in free-trade zones, financial districts and universities to help support AI development and attract foreign investment and talent. Mao Xiangdong, vice-president of the Shanghai Institute of Technology and a member of the standing committee of the city’s people’s…
Chinese President Xi Jinping is promoting the idea of a “shared future in cyberspace” at the country’s annual internet conference this year amid an intensifying US-China rivalry that has raised concerns about technological decoupling, particularly in artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductors. The advance of AI technologies has improved humans’ ability to change the world, but…