OpenAI’s recent text-to-video model Sora has fired a fresh warning shot to China about its gap with the world’s top artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, triggering questions about why the country has no equivalent product in an echo of the kind of soul-searching local researchers and investors we
The AI industry was transformed by the launch of ChatGPT in late 2023 and although China is racing to catch up, hurdles remain in the form of US chip sanctions and strict regulation.
The last lakes in Hubei province are shrinking so fast that no one knows whether new government regulations the latest leg of a sixteen-year-old environmental scramble can reverse the disappearing act.The province has been losing its once-bountiful lakes for about a hundred years, but the destructive pace accelerated in modern times with extension draining projects for