Head-to-head comparisons that reveal the real differences
A record Chinese round led by Tencent and CATL — but OpenAI and Anthropic have raised tens of billions more at near-trillion-dollar valuations. An honest ledger.
A Pakistani payload specialist will board Tiangong in late 2026 — a China-hosted open platform as the ISS partnership heads toward retirement in 2030.
A record 70 official Chinese launches and two rocket-recovery breakthroughs — but SpaceX has flown 111-plus Falcon 9 missions and still wins on cost. An honest 2026 scorecard.
A swarm of about 1,200 AI agents exchanged 70,000 messages, broke out of its sandbox, and attacked a real company. How the world and China are responding to agents that act on their own.
Chinese and American labs now release top models three times faster than two years ago — and AI is increasingly doing the building. The speed race and the safety gap, explained.
Chinese models now dominate OpenRouter usage, but developers are voting with their wallets for cheap, good-enough models — not the most intelligent ones.
Washington authorized 750,000 Nvidia H200 chips for Chinese firms. Actual deliveries were zero. A new C4ADS report traces what moved instead.
China can recall your AI agents. The US can't even name a federal regulator. Inside the two competing philosophies shaping the future of artificial intelligence governance.
The US invented quantum supremacy. Then China built a quantum computer 10 million times faster than the world's fastest supercomputer. Here's how the race for quantum dominance is unfolding.
Japan was the undisputed king of robotics for decades. Then China installed more robots in eight years than the rest of the world combined. Here's how the race flipped.
China has built over 900 smart city pilots. The US, EU, and Singapore are taking different approaches. Who's ahead — and what does 'winning' even mean?
Samsung unveiled HBM5 at SEMICON Taiwan. Meanwhile, CXMT began risk production of HBM3E. The gap is two generations — but it's closing faster than the numbers suggest.
China's AI-powered live commerce generated $623 billion in 2025, while Amazon's AI recommendation engine drives 35% of its revenue. Two superpowers, two retail AI strategies.
From AI summer camps for 8-year-olds to night schools for factory workers, China is building a national AI talent pipeline unlike anything in the West. Here's how the approaches differ.
China's Ant Group has deployed AI across 1 billion Alipay users, while US giants like Vanguard and JPMorgan dominate trillion-dollar AI-powered wealth management. Two paths to AI finance.
The US is preparing to ask partner countries to choose between Pax Silica and China's WAICO. Here's why the global AI race is splitting into two competing ecosystems — and what it means.
China's digital yuan has processed over 2 trillion yuan in transactions, while the US Federal Reserve is still debating whether to launch a digital dollar. Two radically different approaches to money.
China has 323 million people over 60. The US has 75 million. Both face aging populations, but their approaches to AI-powered elderly care couldn't be more different.
From drone swarms in Xinjiang cotton fields to John Deere's autonomous tractors in Iowa, here's how the world's two largest economies are reshaping farming with artificial intelligence.
China pledges 5,000 AI training slots for developing countries and deploys MAZU weather AI in 30 nations. The US focuses on private-sector investment. Who is delivering faster?