Shenzhen has launched what its backers call China’s first thousand-qubit-scale quantum computing power platform, a step they say moves the country’s quantum effort from technical validation toward something industry can actually use. On 3 August, the Greater Bay Area, Guangdong, Quantum Science Center, the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, and Entropec, Shenzhen, Technology unveiled the … Read more
China has approved its first mandatory national safety standard for L3 and L4 autonomous driving, setting a unified bar for vehicles that can drive themselves. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s standard, Safety Requirements for Autonomous Driving Systems of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles, was formally approved on 30 July and takes full effect on … Read more
The reported logic: SpaceX, a major US defence contractor, creates conflicts that a firewall between Tesla’s China unit and its US operations could resolve. Tesla has already been asked to rigorously separate US and China operations, including a standalone sales entity for Shanghai exports. Selling Shanghai is hard to imagine. The plant runs as a … Read more
“The government will not give us a penny.” Liang Wenfeng just broke Washington’s favourite DeepSeek story. A transcript of 118 investor answers reveals a very different narrative.