SHENZHEN — When rush hour calms down around 8 p.m. at Shenzhen’s Futian railway station, autonomous robovans get to work. They begin moving back and forth along a designated route, carrying parcels from a storage facility and dropping them off at a spot near the platform. The vehicles broadcast audio alerting people to keep a two…
LONDON — Britain’s government on Monday raced to secure raw materials to keep the country’s last steelmaking blast furnaces running, as Beijing warned the United Kingdom against politicizing the takeover of Chinese-owned British Steel. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government swooped in on Saturday to prevent the closure of British Steel’s main plant in northern Scunthorpe…
HONG KONG/PALO ALTO, California — Since startup DeepSeek became the pride of China by singlehandedly crashing Nvidia’s stock price with its low-cost approach to artificial intelligence, local governments have been racing to use the model for everything from drafting documents and analyzing data to answering public queries and drawing up policies. At a time when…