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  • 2 weeks ago | chinatalk.media | Angela Shen

    In 2011, China’s drug regulator cleared the nation’s first home-grown targeted cancer pill. Fourteen years later, a Chinese bispecific antibody is aiming to knock the world’s top-selling oncology drug off its perch. Those two bookends frame twin contests now running in parallel. One is humanity’s decades-long fight against cancer, a disease that still claims one in six lives worldwide. The other is China’s effort to move from importing medicines to inventing them.

  • 3 weeks ago | chinatalk.media | Angela Shen

    Once hailed as the “Apple of China,” Xiaomi has evolved into the world’s No. 3 smartphone brand. The Beijing giant wires millions of homes with its TVs, wearables, and appliances while pitching itself as a seamless “Human × Car × Home” platform. Founder Lei Jun now wants to turn that consumer-electronics prowess into hard-tech dominance. In 2025 alone, Xiaomi debuted its first in-house chip (the XRING O1) and showed off its sleek SU7 electric sedan.

  • 3 weeks ago | chinatalk.media | Lily Ottinger

    I did a podcast with Doug, Dylan and Jon updating our AI Mandate of Heaven tier list and talking about how America needs science research and immigrants (Apple Podcasts, Spotify). If you’re an AI researcher interested in signing onto a short letter in support of the NSF and global STEM talent coming to America, please respond to this email!Zilan Qian is a fellow at the Oxford China Policy Lab and an MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute.

  • 3 weeks ago | chinatalk.media | Jordan Schneider |Lily Ottinger

    Just how weird will the AI-powered future be? To discuss, ChinaTalk interviewed , a CS PhD who writes⁠ the Interconnects newsletter⁠ and trains models at the Allen Institute.

  • 4 weeks ago | chinatalk.media | Lily Ottinger

    We’re having a meetup on Monday in DC. RSVP here!This edition is brought to you by Pelanor, the AI-powered FinOps startup letting companies make sense of their cloud spend. Founded by alumni of Israel’s elite cyber intelligence unit, Pelanor untangles the chaos behind nine-figure AWS and Azure bills. Most companies have no idea how their compute spend ties into business outcomes.

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