Machine vision can create Harry Potter–style photos for muggles

A clever algorithm animates characters in still images, allowing them to walk out of photographs. Read more »

China’s tech boom has inspired a wave of internet-related art

These artists are critiquing how technology promotes consumerism, shapes identity, and enables new forms of censorship. Read more »

China’s tech giants want to go global. Just one thing might stand in their way.

Multibillion-dollar companies like Alibaba and Tencent have thrived thanks to a government that provided incentives but otherwise let them grow. Can they count on that in the future? Read more »

The US and China aren’t in a “cold war” so stop calling it that

In our globalized economy, the term is not only outdated, it’s harmful. Read more »

Female black journalists and politicians get sent an abusive tweet every 30 seconds

Machine learning reveals a disturbing level of harassment, abuse, and trolling aimed at women and minorities on Twitter. Read more »

The Reunion: a new science-fiction story about surveillance in China

Technology is making people unhinged and violent. Can an algorithm stop them? Read more »

These incredibly real fake faces show how algorithms can now mess with us

A new approach to AI fakery can generate incredibly realistic faces, with whatever characteristics you’d like. Read more »

China has never had a real chip industry. Making AI chips could change that.

The country has struggled for decades to build a competitive semiconductor industry. In making specialized AI chips, though, it’s got a head start. Read more »

Data that illuminates the AI boom

Artificial intelligence is being industrialized at remarkable speed in Europe, China, and the US, but diversity remains a problem. Read more »

A radical new neural network design could overcome big challenges in AI

Researchers borrowed equations from calculus to redesign the core machinery of deep learning for modeling continuous processes. Read more »