Nicole Fan / Rest of World:
Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more  —  With backing from the Chinese government, TCM practitioners are integrating AI tools to reach new consumers at home and abroad.

Financial Times:
A look at China's “genius class” system that selects ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni include many top tech founders  —  A network of ultra-competitive high-school talent streams has been turning out the leading lights of science and tech

Matteo Wong / The Atlantic:
Anthropic positions itself as the AI sector's superego, but it's caught between the pressures to be safe, fast, and rigorous while being commercially successful  —  These are not the words you want to hear when it comes to human extinction, but I was hearing them: “Things are moving uncomfortably fast.”

Ann Cao / South China Morning Post:
Sources: Alibaba has delivered more than 100K units of the Zhenwu 810E, an ASIC for AI training and inference, surpassing those of its domestic rival Cambricon  —  The milestone underscores Alibaba's growing footprint in AI hardware, as Chinese firms accelerate efforts to build home-grown processors

Matthew Gault / 404 Media:
A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of AI agents on the site and post anything; the database has now been closed  —  ‘It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.’  —  Moltbook is a “social media” …