Plus: talent poaching, plagiarism accusations, and illegal exports of EDA tools
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- On Aug 2, Zhejiang University unveiled Wukong, a neuromorphic computer with more than 2 billion neurons and over 100 billion synapses, consuming 2000 watts. (S&T Daily, 08/02/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4692
- Chinese researchers won two of four Best Paper Awards at the annual Association for Computational Linguistics meeting, highlighting China’s growing influence in natural language processing. (36kr, 08/01/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4694
- US EDA company Cadence will pay $140M after pleading guilty to illegally exporting semiconductor design tools to a Chinese university on the U.S. restricted Entity List. (EE Times China, 07/29/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4665
- The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai saw a record high of new products exhibited and highlighted China's action plan for global AI governance. (S&T Daily, 07/26/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4651
- Ant Group launched an AGI research center led by top AI scientists to focus on foundational model development. (AI Tech Talk, 07/24/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4632
- An energy expert argues that widespread AI application may be key to achieving Xi Jinping's goal of carbon neutrality by 2060, despite the high energy consumption of LLMs. (Caijing, 07/21/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4633
- China's exports of rare earth magnets to the United States have rebounded, surging by 660% month-on-month in June. (EE Times China, 07/21/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4620
- In a CCTV-broadcast interview, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang remarks on the importance of China's semiconductor supply chain and market. (Zhidx, 07/21/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4630
- Manus, a Chinese AI startup now active primarily overseas, is shutting down its China operations and cutting 80% of its Chinese staff amid other signs of global focus. (36kr, 07/10/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4604
- Huawei's new open source AI model, Pangu, is facing plagiarism allegations, with a former employee claiming it reused elements of Alibaba’s Qwen model. (EE Times China, 07/07/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4595
- In the first half of 2025, there were at least 196 DeepSeek government and enterprise projects, totaling value over 1.1 billion yuan. (Zhidx, 07/05/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4592
- Canada has ordered Hikvision to shut down operations over national security concerns, a move condemned by the company and Chinese officials. (EE Times China, 06/30/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4580
- A report finds that code is being increasingly generated by AI, and developers worry that such reliance will lead to operational risk and malware. (36kr, 06/30/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4568
- Meta has successfully recruited four Chinese researchers from OpenAI as part of a recent talent acquisition spree in Silicon Valley. (Zhidx, 06/29/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4560
- Alibaba released Qwen VLo, its latest multimodal understanding and visual generation model. (Zhidx, 06/28/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4561
- Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are now seen as crucial for edge AI due to their real-time processing and adaptability. (EEFocus, 06/27/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4559
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo has extended its export ban on cobalt by three months, driving prices up by 60%. (EEFocus, 06/26/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4546
- TSMC and Samsung delay adoption of ASML's High-NA EUV lithography machines, suggesting a possible shift in semiconductor manufacturing from lithography to alternatives like etching. (EEFocus, 06/25/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4540
- Over 160 companies await IPOs on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, amid a tech-driven boom and new cross-border payment and stablecoin initiatives. (Caijing, 06/23/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4533
- Hangzhou has issued 20 major policies in its 2025 plan for AI innovation, including large-scale public investments in computing infrastructure and subsidies to AI developers. (Zhidx, 06/21/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4532
- Renmin University has launched an AI governance institute to explore ethical, legal, and strategic frameworks for responsible AI. (S&T Daily, 06/10/25) https://scout.eto.tech?id=4524