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News · 2026-09-21

Critique of Anthropic: Pacing the frontier as a smokescreen

The ChinAI newsletter analyzes Anthropic's approach to safety, which critics say only justifies further arms races instead of actual deceleration.

News · 2026-09-11

Verification Blocked: Sources on OpenAI and the Hodge Conjecture Are Currently Inaccessible

Asian tech portals started spreading rumors that OpenAI is trying to solve the Hodge conjecture, one of the Millennium Prize problems. However, the primary source was blocked during verification.

News · 2026-08-31

The OpenClaw Bubble Has Burst, China Is Not Adopting It That Fast

The hype surrounding the massive deployment of the open-source agent OpenClaw in China was based on flawed data. Today, the project is largely ignored as development shifts toward managed cloud solutions.

News · 2026-07-31

Seedance 2.5 ships native 30-second clips and dense multimodal references

ByteDance is rolling Seedance 2.5 into Dreamina and partner tools as a video model that can hold a continuous clip around 30 seconds in one pass and take a dense stack of image, video and audio references. For creators, that shifts AI video away from stitched short segments toward one-shot continuity with local fixes.

News · 2026-07-20

Claude Code in China hits the line between gray use and corporate bans

ChinAI explains how Claude Code became a sensitive issue for Chinese tech companies after April code aimed at identifying Chinese users and an internal Alibaba ban. The point is not only geopolitical: a tool developers used unofficially now has to sit on the compliance table.