City leaders tour Xi'an's automated "lights-out factory" where production continues without human workers present in Xi'an, ...

China is racing to build a self-sufficient artificial intelligence stack, from cutting edge chips to nationwide deployment, and its leaders now treat that effort with the urgency of a wartime program.

The city of Baotou—long the heart of the rare-earths mining sector that has given China a stranglehold over the modern economy—is now working to establish entire next-generation production chains. In ...

China, the U.S., Russia and others have ramped up their contest over artificial-intelligence-backed weapons and military systems. The buildup has been compared to the dawn of the nuclear weapons age.