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AI Agenda

Why China’s Answer to Surge AI Got a $1 Billion Valuation On Just $30 Million in Orders

By Juro Osawa · Sep 14, 2026 7:16am PDT
Unless you’ve been under a rock over the weekend, you’d know that the debate about AI safety took a big leap forward, as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called for leading AI companies to slow the development of advanced AI, drawing supportive responses from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis and SpaceX CEO Elon... Unless you’ve been under a rock over the weekend, you’d know that the debate about AI safety took...
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Exclusive

China Curbs Humanoid IPOs After Unitree’s Volatile Debut

By Jing Yang and Qianer Liu · Sep 8, 2026 7:30pm PDT · 1 comment
Chinese regulators are tightening the approval for humanoid startups seeking to go public after a volatile debut by industry leader Unitree Robotics, as they aim to cool down a sizzling sector rife with copycats but little real technological breakthroughs. The Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission recently gave its informal “window... Chinese regulators are tightening the approval for humanoid startups seeking to go public after a...
EnPower is retooling its Indiana battery plant to make the new drone pouch cell. Photo: Courtesy EnPower.
The Electric

Startups Gravitate to a New, Pentagon-backed Battery to Bypass China’s Chokehold

By Steve LeVine · Sep 2, 2026 12:00pm PDT
In 2024, the U.S. approved the sale of attack drones to Taiwan, triggering a furious response from China. In retaliation, Beijing blocked the sale of batteries to Skydio, the largest U.S. maker of drones, creating a supply crunch for the company because it had no alternative source of batteries. In 2024, the U.S. approved the sale of attack drones to Taiwan, triggering a furious response...
China Renaissance CEO Fan Bao. Photo by Bloomberg.
China Tech Summit

China Tech Headed for Record Year for IPOs Despite Pandemic

By Juro Osawa and Yunan Zhang · Jul 24, 2020 4:34am PDT
The head of China Renaissance Group, one of China’s most influential investment banking and private equity firms, said he expects 2020 to be a record-breaking year for Chinese tech initial public offerings. “Right now the IPO market is sizzling hot,” said China Renaissance CEO Fan Bao, at The Information’s video summit on... The head of China Renaissance Group, one of China’s most influential investment banking and...
Jessica Lessin interviews Alibaba's Joe Tsai. Photo by Brent Pottinger.
China Subscriber Summit

Watch Interviews From Beijing and Hong Kong Summits

By The Information Staff · Oct 6, 2017 2:47pm PDT · 1 comment
If you missed our summit meetings in Hong Kong and Beijing, you can catch up with the videos here. Among those on stage were Joe Tsai of Alibaba, Shou Zi Chew of Xiaomi and Bob Xu of Zhen Fund. If you missed our summit meetings in Hong Kong and Beijing, you can catch up with the videos...
Sinovation founder Kai-Fu Lee. Photo by Bloomberg.
Silicon China

How China-U.S. Tech Ties Have Evolved

By Shai Oster · Sep 27, 2017 11:59am PDT
Tucked inside a condo around the corner from a Palo Alto supermarket is the North American office of Sinovation Ventures. One of the most active investors in Chinese startups, Sinovation is also building a portfolio of companies in the U.S. The U.S. team is led by Chris Evdemon, a Greek-born, U.K.-educated venture capitalist who cut his teeth in... Tucked inside a condo around the corner from a Palo Alto supermarket is the North American office...