How a City Without Advantages Built China’s Most Instructive Tech Experiment.
ChinaPower Project
Unpacking the complexity of China's rise in the world through interactivity and visualization.
Building China: Rise of the Superblock - RADII
How China came to repeat the urban development mistakes of the US and Europe, resulting in colossal building projects and car-centric living
Story of cities #4: Beijing and the earliest planning document in history
The seemingly incoherent sprawl of modern Beijing is based on meticulous plans to bind citizens together under imperial rule. Conceived as a means of enforcing social order, the impact of planning remains strong in the city today
China's overlapping tech-industrial ecosystems
EVs, batteries, lidar, drones, robotics, smartphones, AI. China's progress across a range of overlapping industries creates a mutually reinforcing feedback loop.
The Future of America’s Contest with China
Washington is in an intensifying standoff with Beijing. Which one will fundamentally shape the twenty-first century?
Notes from inside China's AI labs
Lessons from my trip to talk to most of the leading AI labs in China.
Weekend Long Read: Two Takes on China’s $14 Billion Micro-Drama Machine
From tourist sites in Xi’an to algorithm-driven studios in Zhengzhou, the boom has turned short-form storytelling into a full-scale industry in both cities
The Future, Made in China
Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.
Infer Vancouver: AI Engineering Meetup
Vancouver's meetup for tactics, techniques, and lessons learned in LLM and AI engineering.
City AI: a strategic framework for urban artificial intelligence application and development
Given the potentially large economic and social impact of AI technological advancement like LLMs, further in-depth thinking is demanded about the ways in which AI exists in cities. In addition to discussions on ethical regulation, there are relatively few cross-cutting studies on how to realize the synergistic development of AI innovation and city, especially taking AI as a complete industry and governance object, under a broader urban and social context. Based on the policy practice of AI development in Shenzhen, this paper proposes a comprehensive framework for the integrated development of AI and the city, which involves the comprehensive consideration of technology systems, application scenarios, educational literacy and governance schemes. Meanwhile, the transformative trend of urban governance triggered by potential general artificial intelligence at a deeper level is further discussed in terms of planning concepts, digital architecture and governance decision-makings. By city AI integration, AI is expected to be better spread into general social activities and, through the driving effect of industrial economy, contribute to the competitiveness and sustainable development of cities.
Embodied AI: China’s Big Bet on Smart Robots
Beijing believes that true AI dominance will come from systems capable of autonomous operation in the physical world—AI-powered robotics, or embodied AI.
Embodied AI: China’s Big Bet on Smart Robots
Beijing believes that true AI dominance will come from systems capable of autonomous operation in the physical world—AI-powered robotics, or embodied AI.
Inside Shenzhen’s race to outdo Silicon Valley
Shenzhen flooded the world with cheap gadgets. Can it now become what Silicon Valley never did—a global hub of innovation, entrepreneurship, and manufacturing?
The Missing Resistance in China’s AI Debate
As Washington negotiates AI guardrails with Beijing, it must understand why the AI debate in China is so quiet: control, not consent.
Tepito: A Neighborhood Governs Itself
A dispatch from Mexico City's legendary barrio reveals how true innovation—from sound-system message networks to black-market tech adaptation—happens far beyond Silicon Valley. Filmmaker and technologist Violeta Ayala explores how self-governance, resistance, and raw intensity shape the future of technology and human connection.
