Stories from China

A glass door at the MixC shopping mall in Nanning shattered during a celebrity fan meeting event on May 31st.

A Chinese tech firm reportedly fired an employee during their probation period after poaching them with a significantly higher salary offer. The employee claims they were offered nearly triple their original annual income, including stock options.

A new approach, Why Not Hyperparameter-Friendly Optimisation? A Monotonic Adaptive Norm Rescaling Approach For Long-Tailed Recognition, addresses the challenge of long-tailed recognition in deep learning.

Alibaba has released Qwen-3.5 Plus, a multimodal AI agent model that combines vision, language, and coding capabilities. The model supports GUI/CLI tasks, visual reasoning, search-augmented QA, and agent workflows.

The total scale of fintech loans from listed banks in China is approaching 30 trillion yuan.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Cyberspace Administration have jointly issued interim measures for the ethical review and service of artificial intelligence.

China is seeking public input on a draft financial law that aims to establish a rapid response mechanism for financial market risks. China is soliciting public feedback on its strategies for responding to financial risks.

A student from Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, identified as Shen, was expelled for secretly filming in restrooms.

A high severity Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in TECNO Mobile's AI Assistant Lifestyle version 1.3.0.002. The vulnerability allows for remote JavaScript execution via GeniexWebView, and no patch is currently available.

China has not reacted to US pressure regarding its policy towards Venezuela. China's delegation in the UAE met with officials, and the UAE delegation visited China. China has rejected pressure from the United States regarding its policy on Venezuela. The US had reportedly urged China to reconsider its engagement with Venezuela.