China's thorium molten salt reactor has become the first in the world to transmute thorium fuel into uranium fuel for nuclear fission. ... read full post
This paper comes up with a really clever architectural solution to LLM hallucinations, especially for complex, technical topics. The core idea is that all our knowledge, from textbooks to wikis, is "radically compressed". It gives you the conclusions but hides all the step-by-step reasoning that justifies them. They call it a vast, unrecorded network of derivations the "intellectual dark matter" of knowledge. LLMs being trained on this compressed, conclusion-oriented data is one reason why they fail so often. When you ask them to explain something deeply, they just confidently hallucinate plausible-sounding "dark matter". ... read full post
A hospital in Xiamen, Fujian province, facilitated the world's first successful cross-border remote robot-assisted heart surgery with experts from France, marking a historic milestone. ... read full post
GUANGZHOU, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese medical team has performed a groundbreaking remote robotic eye surgery, using a 5G-connected robot to treat a patient over 4,000 kilometers away. ... read full post
The 8th World Voice Expo and iFlytek 1024 Global Developer Festival 2025 kicked off at the Hefei Sports Center on Nov. 2, 2025. Themed "AI that understands you more," the expo features AI applications that are close to our daily life and concrete needs. Follow our People's Daily reporter to explore the future possibilities of an AI-powered society. ... read full post

Z.ai, Alibaba (Qwen), Deepseek, Moonshot (Kimi), Meituan (never heard of them before, they're a delivery company that released LongCat-Flash-Chat). There's also hunyuan open-source models that do text-to-video as well as 3d I think
Western tech companies don't even rank.

Below we publish the speech of M.G. OBRAZTSOVA, Advisor to the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Candidate of Economic Sciences, at the Working Meeting on New Forms and Methods of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation's Work with the Population on October 28, 2025: ... read full post
Scientists in China have developed a new chip, with a twist: it's analog, meaning it performs calculations on its own physical circuits rather than via the binary 1s and 0s of standard digital processors. ... read full post
URUMQI, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Across the sprawling fields of Xayar County, Aksu, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, snow-white cotton stretches as far as the eye can see, with heavy harvesters moving steadily through the rows in a seamless rhythm of picking, packing and processing at the height of the harvest. ... read full post
SHANGHAI, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- China has successfully achieved the first-ever thorium to uranium nuclear fuel conversion in a Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR), and obtained valid experimental data following thorium fuel loading, confirming the technical feasibility of thorium utilization in a molten-salt reactor nuclear energy system, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) on Saturday. ... read full post
In a major leap for the global semiconductor industry, a joint Chinese research team has developed a method that can slash defects in lithography – a critical step in chipmaking – by up to 99 per cent. ... read full post