Niu Lai, a low-budget animation film about a cow in a dream sequence, went viral for its confusing plot and terrible graphics and generated a wave of curiosity; its success is now comparable to Hollywood blockbusters like The Odyssey and Spider Man

Mathematicians Hong Wang and Yu Deng were awarded the 2026 Fields Medal, the world's most prestigiuos recognition granted every four years to scientists under 40; they are the 2nd and 3rd Chinese nationals to earn a Fields: Shing-Tung Yau won in 1982

At the opening ceremony of World Artificial Intelligence Conference WAIC in Shanghai, Xi urged countries to seize the "historic opportunity" of open-source AI, pledged to help developing nations build AI capabilities against "new historical injustices"

10 United States-based companies have been added to China's export control list, government procurement barred from 50 US companies two weeks after the Pentagon blacklisted some of China’s best-known companies for alleged ties to the Chinese military