(China Daily) China's listed banks are ramping up the adoption of artificial intelligence, accelerating deployments in the first half as they seek to boost efficiency, enhance customer experience and unlock new growth, with experts saying large AI models are shifting from tools of productivity to engines of value creation.  

During its 2025 interim results briefing on Aug 29, Han Jing, executive vice-president of China Construction Bank, said: "We use technology and data-driven approaches, especially AI, to empower precise customer identification, targeted marketing and accurate profiling. This is reflected in both our corporate and retail business segments.

(AP) President Donald Trump said prominent billionaires – including media mogul Rupert Murdoch and tech founder Michael Dell – could be part of a deal in which the U.S. will take control of the social video platform TikTok.  

Trump name dropped the 94-year-old Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch, the head of Fox News and News Corp, as part of a group of possible participants in a deal during an interview recorded Friday and aired Sunday on Fox News.  

“I think they’re going to be in the group.

(China Daily) The National Healthcare Security Administration on Saturday released the rules for the 11th round of its national drug centralized procurement program, focusing on ensuring clinical supply, guaranteeing drug quality and countering market involution.

(China Daily) China's top market regulator said on Friday that it has opened an investigation into Chengdu Kuaigou Technology Co, the e-commerce subsidiary of Kuaishou, for suspected violations of the country's e-commerce law. Beijing is currently stepping up its regulation of the fast-growing livestreaming industry.

(China Daily) Focusing on AI quantum and quantum intelligence, a forum drew experts from home and abroad to discuss pressing scientific challenges and emerging opportunities in the field of quantum artificial intelligence, as well as to explore future industrial applications in Shanghai's Zhangjiang Science City on Sunday.

(China Daily) At a textile mill in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, the rhythmic clatter of looms is now harmonized with a new sound: the silent, rapid-fire calculations of artificial intelligence.  

China Telecom's "StarWeave Textile AI Agent" is relentlessly at work here — adjusting thread tension in real-time and scrutinizing fabric for flaws as it emerges, transforming an age-old craft in the process.

(Xinhua) Across China's steel industry, once noisy furnace floors are giving way to intelligent systems where control centers analyze vast streams of production data in real time, artificial intelligence (AI) adjusts furnace temperatures dynamically, and robots spot defects with greater accuracy.  

For industry veterans, this transformation is striking, and experts say it signals how frontier technologies are breathing new life into traditional sectors.

(Reuters) A U.S.-China agreement on TikTok's U.S. operations includes China's ByteDance choosing one of seven board members for the new entity, with Americans holding the six other seats, a senior White House official said on Saturday. 

President Donald Trump is trying to keep the short video app with 170 million U.S. users from being banned after Congress passed a law in 2024 that ordered it shut down by January 2025 if its U.S. assets were not sold by owner ByteDance.

(China Daily) Beijing-based biotech unicorn METiS TechBio has rolled out what it calls the world's first AI-powered nano-delivery platform, NanoForge, which could reshape the way medicines are developed and delivered, paving the way for reprogrammable drugs.  

At the launch event in Beijing on Tuesday, cofounder and CEO Chris Lai compared the breakthrough to aerospace engineering. "NanoForge is like the SpaceX of drug delivery.

(Xinhua) In cancer immunotherapy, immune cells inside the body need to receive strong and enough "signals" to attack cancer cells. However, cancer cells are adept at disguising themselves, with very sparse natural signals on their surfaces.  

To accurately identify cancer cells, a research team led by Han Shuo from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has applied proximity labeling technology from chemical biology research to disease treatment.
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