Chinese authorities are using artificial intelligence to turbocharge surveillance and censorship, with the technology predicting public demonstrations and monitoring prison inmates, according to a new report.

As Nvidia pushes to sell its artificial-intelligence chips in China again, a homegrown rival’s successful public market debut is signaling that the country is aiming to get to the top on its own.

Rather than a war destroying the manufacturing capabilities of competitors, China’s milestone will reflect the drive by the country’s Communist leadership to dominate the leading edge of global industry. But it’s also a consequence of a policy regime that leaves limited space for other nations to compete in low-skilled manufacturing.

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, including prominent Republican China hawk Tom Cotton, on Thursday unveiled a bill that would block the Trump administration from loosening rules that restrict Beijing's access to artificial intelligence chips from Nvidia and AMD AMD.

In China’s huge yet semi-walled smartphone market, a long-simmering feud between handset makers and software developers is finally boiling over.

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Vlad Savov recaps a deep dive report from Bloomberg Intelligence on China’s AI scene.

Alibaba and ByteDance are among the tech groups training their latest large language models in data centres across South-east Asia, the report said, citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. Copyright 2025 Thomson Reuters.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang lobbied Trump and Republican senators to allow sales of advanced AI chips to China, arguing export restrictions won’t slow Beijing’s advancement.

Japanese automakers tipping the scales on Chinese EVs. Using Chinese tech to stage a stunning comeback and reclaim dominance in the world’s biggest car market.

Russia is working to co-opt part of India’s booming tech sector to forge a technological alliance to counter the West and boost its standing with China, in a campaign led by a former U.S.-based deep-cover spy, documents show.