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How China ‘risk factors’ loom over Anthropic’s hotly anticipated IPO filing

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How China ‘risk factors’ loom over Anthropic’s hotly anticipated IPO filing

Open-weight models, China-US tensions, Taiwan – just a few of the more than dozen references to China-related risks cited in Anthropic’s much-anticipated listing prospectus, which was finally released on Monday after months of speculation. Mostly concentrated within the 93-page “risk factors” section of the filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the disclosures reveal how the Silicon Valley start-up assesses the commercial threats…

4 hours ago • SCMP Tech

ByteDance’s Zhang Yiming tops China rich list with US$99.7 billion as AI fuels fortunes

ByteDance’s Zhang Yiming tops China rich list with US$99.7 billion as AI fuels fortunes

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has reclaimed the title of China’s richest person with a nearly US$100 billion fortune, as artificial intelligence powe…

6 hours ago • SCMP Tech

China to boost protection of trade secrets against foreign entities

China to boost protection of trade secrets against foreign entities

China plans new measures against foreign entities that infringe on local trade secrets, a boost to its legal defences in a technology race with the Un…

8 hours ago • SCMP Tech

Beijing pushes for UN-led governance of artificial intelligence at global forum

Beijing pushes for UN-led governance of artificial intelligence at global forum

China is pitching open-source artificial intelligence and a greater voice for the Global South as cornerstones for future tech regulations, ramping up…

8 hours ago • SCMP Tech

Moonshot apologises after Kimi K3.1 Pro roll-out stumbles as promotional scrutiny widens

Moonshot apologises after Kimi K3.1 Pro roll-out stumbles as promotional scrutiny widens

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Moonshot AI, developer of the popular Kimi series, apologised on Monday for limiting customers’ use of its la…

11 hours ago • SCMP Tech

ZTE up 7% after AI pivot, computing surge drive massive increase in third-quarter profit

ZTE up 7% after AI pivot, computing surge drive massive increase in third-quarter profit

Shares in ZTE rose more than 7 per cent in Hong Kong on Tuesday after the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker posted a nearly fivefold jump in …

13 hours ago • SCMP Tech

Women, Teens Helped Build Terra-Cotta Army, Chinese Study Says

Women, Teens Helped Build Terra-Cotta Army, Chinese Study Says

The study, which analyzed ancient fingerprints left on the statues, is the first to assess the division of labor involved in the production of the fir…

20 hours ago • Sixth Tone

Apple iPhone Duo price premiums evaporate in China’s scalper market

Apple iPhone Duo price premiums evaporate in China’s scalper market

Scalpers in mainland China are slashing prices on Apple’s newly released iPhone Duo after the US tech giant’s first foldable smartphone drew mixed ear…

Yesterday • SCMP Tech

Europe can still shape the rules of AI

Europe can still shape the rules of AI

In October, two technology executives offered Europe similar advice. In Turin, Alibaba Group Holding chairman Joe Tsai urged European companies to use…

Yesterday • SCMP Tech

In a global first, Hong Kong opens secondary trading for tokenised public funds

In a global first, Hong Kong opens secondary trading for tokenised public funds

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) on Monday approved the world’s first-ever secondary trading of tokenised public funds, reinforci…

Yesterday • SCMP Tech

China’s AI race needs data fuel. Can a new state-owned giant deliver?

China’s AI race needs data fuel. Can a new state-owned giant deliver?

Beijing is making an ambitious bid to turn China’s vast ocean of data into fuel for artificial intelligence and economic growth with the launch of a c…

Yesterday • SCMP Tech

Could new US investment curbs complicate China’s biotech licensing surge?

Could new US investment curbs complicate China’s biotech licensing surge?

Chinese biotech firms face fresh headwinds in their global expansion as Washington’s proposed outbound investment restrictions threaten to disrupt dea…

Yesterday • SCMP Tech

Chinese video AI models beat US rivals in visual quality, but lag on safeguards: HKU study

Chinese video AI models beat US rivals in visual quality, but lag on safeguards: HKU study

Chinese AI video-generation models have surpassed leading US rivals in visual quality, but several fall behind in safety precautions, according to res…

Yesterday • SCMP Tech

South Korea urged to guard chip profitability as China’s CXMT and YMTC gain market share

South Korea urged to guard chip profitability as China’s CXMT and YMTC gain market share

China’s expanding semiconductor industry is fuelling anxiety in South Korea, where a new report from PwC has warned local chipmakers to defend profita…

Yesterday • SCMP Tech

Alibaba Cloud founder on how AI can unlock human potential

Alibaba Cloud founder on how AI can unlock human potential

Long before artificial intelligence became the next big thing in the tech industry, Wang Jian was crafting the foundational infrastructure that would …

Yesterday • SCMP Tech

Weapon or armour? The contentious debate over China’s open-weight AI

Weapon or armour? The contentious debate over China’s open-weight AI

Are China’s increasingly powerful open-weight AI models a cybersecurity threat, or could restricting them ultimately make the internet less secure? Th…

Yesterday • SCMP Tech

China shoots ahead on AI video models

China shoots ahead on AI video models

While few dispute that China is narrowing the gap with the United States in developing artificial intelligence (AI) models, there is one area where Ch…

Yesterday • SCMP Tech

Standard Chartered-led Anchorpoint plans retail stablecoin as HSBC RedCoin launches

Standard Chartered-led Anchorpoint plans retail stablecoin as HSBC RedCoin launches

After HSBC RedCoin launched on Friday, Anchorpoint – the stablecoin-issuing joint venture led by Standard Chartered – said it plans to launch a retail…

Yesterday • SCMP Tech

Why cloud computing pioneer Wang Jian thinks space is the next AI frontier

Why cloud computing pioneer Wang Jian thinks space is the next AI frontier

Long before artificial intelligence became the next big thing in the tech industry, Wang Jian was crafting the foundational infrastructure that would …

Yesterday • SCMP Tech

Reel to Real: The ‘Voy Boys’ and the Movie That Never Was

Reel to Real: The ‘Voy Boys’ and the Movie That Never Was

A Beijing filmmaker set out to make a blockbuster about disabled kids finding healing in sport. Instead, she helped build Xinjiang’s first blind footb…

Yesterday • Sixth Tone

Rack and Ruin: How China’s Trillion-Yuan Womenswear Market Lost Its Color

Rack and Ruin: How China’s Trillion-Yuan Womenswear Market Lost Its Color

Seeking bold invention, young women flee to vintage clothing designs to escape the “algorithm bubble” pushing bland imitations.

Yesterday • Sixth Tone

Chinese Reality Show’s Medical Students Criticized as Incompetent

Chinese Reality Show’s Medical Students Criticized as Incompetent

The eighth season of “An Exciting Offer,” which follows the lives of medical students, has drawn pushback online after participants revealed serious g…

Yesterday • Sixth Tone

China’s tech giants are paying 1 million yuan for a new kind of AI engineer

China’s tech giants are paying 1 million yuan for a new kind of AI engineer

Chinese technology giants are dangling annual pay packages approaching 1 million yuan (US$149,739) to attract artificial intelligence engineers who ca…

2 days ago • SCMP Tech

How Contemporary Art Finds a Home in Small-Town China

How Contemporary Art Finds a Home in Small-Town China

In a mountain county in eastern China, an experimental museum is bringing artists and local communities together, exploring how each can shape the oth…

2 days ago • Sixth Tone

China’s AI compute surge heavily reliant on US chips, offshore cloud access: report

China’s AI compute surge heavily reliant on US chips, offshore cloud access: report

China’s access to artificial intelligence computing power will double next year, but US-designed chips will account for about 65 per cent of that capa…

3 days ago • SCMP Tech

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang brings ‘sovereign AI’ push to Kazakhstan, shrugs off bubble fears

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang brings ‘sovereign AI’ push to Kazakhstan, shrugs off bubble fears

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is pitching the concept of “sovereign AI” in Kazakhstan – part of his global crusade urging nations to build domestic computin…

4 days ago • SCMP Tech

Cambricon’s third quarter profit surges 148% to US$210m amid push to replace Nvidia chips

Cambricon’s third quarter profit surges 148% to US$210m amid push to replace Nvidia chips

Chinese artificial intelligence chip giant Cambricon Technologies reported a 147.7 per cent surge in third-quarter profit on Friday, as the country’s …

4 days ago • SCMP Tech

China’s humanoid robots hunt for work in South Korea as Seoul bets on physical AI

China’s humanoid robots hunt for work in South Korea as Seoul bets on physical AI

This article was first published by The Korea Times in a partnership with the South China Morning Post. Chinese humanoid robot makers are accelerating…

4 days ago • SCMP Tech

DeepSeek, MiniMax secure open-source licences days after new China export rules: state media

DeepSeek, MiniMax secure open-source licences days after new China export rules: state media

Chinese artificial intelligence model developers DeepSeek and MiniMax have completed export registration procedures and proceeded with open-source rel…

4 days ago • SCMP Tech

Chinese stocks bounce back from bear market on suspected state support

Chinese stocks bounce back from bear market on suspected state support

Chinese stocks rebounded on Friday after a sell-off drove the benchmark index into a bear market, as surging trading volumes in the nation’s biggest e…

4 days ago • SCMP Tech

Asia-Pacific AI agent market to surge 14-fold to US$11.2 billion by 2030, Omdia says

Asia-Pacific AI agent market to surge 14-fold to US$11.2 billion by 2030, Omdia says

The artificial intelligence agent software market across Asia, Australia and New Zealand is set to expand more than 14-fold by 2030, according to rese…

4 days ago • SCMP Tech

China Develops 1-Gram, Wireless Microscope for Lab Animal Use

China Develops 1-Gram, Wireless Microscope for Lab Animal Use

The device, reportedly the lightest wireless mesoscope in the world, allows scientists to observe thousands of neurons in free-roaming mice.

4 days ago • Sixth Tone

Unitree developing AI system to let humanoid robots improve themselves

Unitree developing AI system to let humanoid robots improve themselves

Unitree Robotics is developing a “self-evolving” feedback loop designed to allow humanoid robots to write code, run simulations and improve their real…

5 days ago • SCMP Tech

‘Jensen’s nightmare’: Huawei, DeepSeek narrow AI chip ecosystem gap with Nvidia: report

‘Jensen’s nightmare’: Huawei, DeepSeek narrow AI chip ecosystem gap with Nvidia: report

Deepening “symbiosis” with artificial intelligence model start-up DeepSeek is helping Chinese tech champion Huawei Technologies catch up with Nvidia’s…

5 days ago • SCMP Tech

China moves to set global standards for brain-computer interface technology

China moves to set global standards for brain-computer interface technology

China has taken a major step in spearheading the standardisation of brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies, as it now chairs the secretariat of a…

5 days ago • SCMP Tech

China’s Unitree unveils ‘guardian’ robot that can disarm attackers, lift cars

China’s Unitree unveils ‘guardian’ robot that can disarm attackers, lift cars

A knife-wielding intruder is confronted. A car is lifted to free a trapped victim. A pedestrian is pulled from the path of an oncoming vehicle. The sc…

5 days ago • SCMP Tech

Websites pulled offline worldwide as AI finds critical security flaws

Websites pulled offline worldwide as AI finds critical security flaws

Government agencies and companies around the world shut down websites as they raced Thursday to protect themselves from hacks after artificial intelli…

5 days ago • SCMP Tech

In Stitches: Why Young Chinese Are Buying Clothes They Can Throw Away

In Stitches: Why Young Chinese Are Buying Clothes They Can Throw Away

Young Chinese are buying clothes tailored to destinations from sunny beaches to snowy peaks and designed to be worn once or twice for as little as a f…

5 days ago • Sixth Tone

China Approves Nation’s First Brainstem Implant for Deafness

China Approves Nation’s First Brainstem Implant for Deafness

The device is intended for young deaf children who cannot use traditional cochlear implants due to inner ear malformations.

5 days ago • Sixth Tone

Meta to pay New Mexico a historic US$25 billion in Cambridge Analytica Facebook case

Meta to pay New Mexico a historic US$25 billion in Cambridge Analytica Facebook case

Meta Platforms was ordered to pay a groundbreaking US$25 billion civil penalty to the state of New Mexico in a consumer deception case spurred by the …

5 days ago • SCMP Tech

Tesla signs deal to integrate Alipay into its cars as China competition heats up

Tesla signs deal to integrate Alipay into its cars as China competition heats up

Tesla has agreed a deal to integrate Chinese fintech giant Ant Group’s Alipay digital payment software into its vehicles in China, as Elon Musk’s firm…

6 days ago • SCMP Tech

Washington’s DeepSeek ban may deter US firms from adopting Chinese AI models: experts

Washington’s DeepSeek ban may deter US firms from adopting Chinese AI models: experts

The US government’s latest ban on Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek could have a chilling effect on the wider American business commun…

6 days ago • SCMP Tech

Apec finance ministers reach consensus on AI, digital financing in Hong Kong

Apec finance ministers reach consensus on AI, digital financing in Hong Kong

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) finance chiefs reached a consensus on economic policy coordination and cooperation on financing technology an…

6 days ago • SCMP Tech

Nvidia CEO to deliver keynote speech in Berlin as his firm faces investor scrutiny over AI

Nvidia CEO to deliver keynote speech in Berlin as his firm faces investor scrutiny over AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage in Berlin on Wednesday, as the world’s most valuable company faces heightened investor scrutiny over …

6 days ago • SCMP Tech

DeepSeek seeks ‘total victory’ over closed-source AI with new open-source tool

DeepSeek seeks ‘total victory’ over closed-source AI with new open-source tool

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has fully open-sourced an internally developed framework designed to run AI models efficiently, as a…

6 days ago • SCMP Tech

Why Anthropic has a major China problem ahead of its blockbuster IPO

Why Anthropic has a major China problem ahead of its blockbuster IPO

The growing popularity of Chinese artificial intelligence models has emerged as a key risk factor for Anthropic ahead of its blockbuster initial publi…

6 days ago • SCMP Tech

Frustrated by Dating Apps, Chinese Students Abroad Still Hope for Love

Frustrated by Dating Apps, Chinese Students Abroad Still Hope for Love

A study of Chinese students in the UK reveals how disappointing encounters and uncertain futures are changing what they seek on dating apps, even as t…

6 days ago • Sixth Tone

At China’s Biggest Studio Complex, Tourists Pay to Play the Lead

At China’s Biggest Studio Complex, Tourists Pay to Play the Lead

As AI and funding cuts reduce live-action shoots, tourist packages provide work for crews and give visitors a finished two-minute ultrashort drama of …

6 days ago • Sixth Tone

Chinese Satellite Constellation Extends Coverage to Arctic

Chinese Satellite Constellation Extends Coverage to Arctic

Arctic research vessels used the system to hold video calls with the country’s Antarctic research base, as well as with researchers and doctors on the…

6 days ago • Sixth Tone

What is Discovery Loop, Chinese teen AI prodigy Nathan Chen’s rumoured next destination?

What is Discovery Loop, Chinese teen AI prodigy Nathan Chen’s rumoured next destination?

Just days after announcing his departure from Moonshot AI, teen Chinese artificial intelligence prodigy Nathan Chen Guangyu seems to have found his ne…

Oct 20, 2026 • SCMP Tech