Intelligence should be open, accessible, and ready to build with, empowering every developer, everywhere. GLM-5.2 is now available to all GLM Coding Plan users, including Lite, Pro, Max, and Team plans. docs.z.ai/devpack/latest-mod… As our new flagship model, GLM-5.2 delivers powerful coding capabilities, usable 1M-context support, and continued strengths in long-horizon tasks. API and Chatbot services will launch next week. The model will also be officially open-sourced next week under the MIT License. The future of AI is open, and it belongs to the people.

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

This link between the Opium Wars and Huawei—connecting back to Howard Lutnick’s call to get China “addicted” to the US tech stack—is a such a genius way to open. Bravo on this piece @selinaxuxinyue! The People’s Republic of Techno-Optimists: theideasletter.org/essay/the…

The rush of capital into China’s tech start-up world hit a speed bump this month. Within hours of each other last Friday, a Chinese city government ordered companies to disclose their financial ties to robot vacuum maker Dreame Technology, and China’s State Council issued sweeping rules to tighten oversight of the country’s 23 trillion yuan ($3.4 trillion) private fund industry. Click here to read more: cnb.cx/4uwPEsC

One of the most important—and least discussed—elements of the plan is the focus on AI supernodes (Intelligent Computing Supernodes). MIIT calls for advances in supernode optoelectronic interconnect technologies (智算超节点光电互联技术), high-speed photonic chips, optical switching, and co-packaged optics. Beijing increasingly understands that the next AI bottleneck is not the chip itself but the network fabric connecting thousands of chips into a single computing system. China's answer is to build larger, more tightly integrated supernodes as part of its national compute-network strategy. Huawei of course is already doing this and Huawei will build most of these, along with some that include ASICs from companies like Alibaba, run by state owned majors China Mobile and China Telecom....

Alibaba Cloud announces support for embodied AI product from 9 companies including: Vivo, Honor, Hisense, Reality, Looki, Ezviz, Teen, SoundCore & Coocaa Mostly using Qwen 3.6/3.7 or Wan 2.7 Qwen is the LLM of choice for embodied AI due to multi-modal support, compact size & integration into Ali's wider AI & cloud infrastructure.

Fed up, Wuhu broke elite ties. They sold a local cement plant to raise cash, imported a used Ford engine line from the UK, poached FAW’s engineers, and built their own firm: later known as Chery. The firm’s first model, a reverse-engineered SEAT Toledo, aimed to compete head-to-head with FAW-VW's Jetta, Toledo's German brother. Chery wasn't alone. Different "local-private alliances" sprouted across China to bypass central rigidities: Great Wall Motor (GWM): Baoding city backed this village and township enterprise (TVE) to absorb failing local part and car makers. Geely: Zhejiang province endorsed this small private firm to anchor its vast auto-parts cluster. (6/15)

🚨🇨🇳🏭📈🚨 New @RANDCorporation report on China's techno-industrial policies under Xi! With @JonathonPSine and Benjamin Lenain. We detail the evolution, goals, and instruments. Lots of charts and summary tables! Please enjoy. rand.org/pubs/research_repor…

A growing number of foreigners are traveling to China for life-saving treatments, including for cancer, because it's often cheaper and more readily available bloomberg.com/news/features/…

China has launched a national campaign to deploy 10,000-unit scale humanoid robots by 2026, backing the push with state-guided funding, open-source data hubs, and commercial leasing models to move embodied AI from labs to real-world industries caixinglobal.com/2026-06-10/…