Cambricon’s prospects have been boosted by the Chinese government’s determination to use local AI chips in data centres.

A baseline best practice in grand strategy is not unilaterally ceding a competitive advantage to the enemy. For the United States, AI computing is such an advantage. Beijing holds many advantages in talent and energy, but U.S. innovation outclasses Chinese companies like Huawei in chip design and processing speed.

But now, as National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan declared that September, “we must maintain as large of a lead as possible.” On October 7, 2022, the Biden administration announced a sweeping set of export controls designed to cut off China from the most advanced chips used for training powerful AI models,

The attack, dubbed “Salt Typhoon,” constituted a large part of a global campaign against telecoms, and it penetrated systems at many U.S. carriers so thoroughly that officials will almost certainly never know the full scope of the capabilities China achieved to spy on Americans’ communications.

But that’s not the full story. While engineering degrees are critical, they don’t guarantee technological leadership. What really drives innovation is not how many people you train, but how you train them. And here, China faces a deeper, cultural problem that raw output can’t solve.

Kaiwa Technology unveiled a humanoid robot pregnancy system with an artificial womb at the 2025 World Robot Conference, set to prototype in 2026. This innovation aims to revolutionize infertility treatments and reproductive medicine by mimicking a real pregnancy.

Documents examined by researchers show how one company in China has collected data on members of Congress and other influential Americans.

"AI inputs, and the ability to deny rivals access to them, will determine the balance of power in the 21st century."

Trump said on Monday that he might allow Nvidia to sell a more advanced artificial intelligence chip in China based on the chipmaker’s latest and most advanced Blackwell platform. The performance of H20 chips sold to China is restricted compared with those more advanced processors sold to customers in the US.

Nvidia struck a surprising deal after convincing the president that H20 chips aren’t a national security risk. But whether the reversal is good or bad depends on who you ask.

Top Senate Democrats wrote an open letter asking President Donald Trump to rethink his decision to allow artificial intelligence chip sales to China. The deal allows chip giants Nvidia and AMD to sell advanced AI chips to China in exchange for a 15% cut of revenue from the sales.