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A humanoid robot built by Honor ran the 100-meter dash in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, surpassing the human record. In the same competition, another Chinese robot completed the 400-meter race in 38.16 seconds, also beating the existing human benchmark.
Google has filed a lawsuit against a Chinese cybercrime network. The company alleges that this operation used its Gemini artificial intelligence to create fraudulent websites and conduct scam activities.
The U.S. Department of Defense has placed several Chinese firms on a list of entities that support the Chinese military, including Alibaba, Baidu, BYD and Unitree. The designation marks these companies as “military-linked” under the Pentagon’s Chinese military companies list.
The United States has authorized the sale of NVIDIA H200 AI chips to about ten Chinese companies. None of the chips have been shipped or delivered to the buyers. The clearance covers the same group of firms across all reports. The decision follows a review of national security concerns.
The White House says foreign entities, principally based in China, are conducting industrial-scale distillation of American artificial-intelligence technology, effectively stealing intellectual property from U.S. AI labs. The State Department has launched a global effort to publicize these alleged Chinese activities, while the United States has pledged intelligence sharing with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google; China has denied the accusations, calling them slander.
Notepad++ experienced a supply-chain attack in which its update infrastructure was hijacked by Chinese state-backed hackers, who distributed a backdoored version of the code-editing and note-taking application. The breach may have compromised user data and the integrity of the software, though specific details of the impact remain unclear.