Welcome back to China Insights Weekly. Here are some of the highlights from this edition.
AI
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NEW YORK - China earned a record $359 billion in exports in April, equivalent to about $500 million for the month. Roughly ...
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Chinese schools are entering the AI era. Criticism from abroad contrasts with emphasis on digital literacy
From Cinka TomasArtificial intelligence is no longer just a topic for technology companies or university labs in China. It is becoming a fixed part of the education system from primary schools ...
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US company Anthropic is facing mounting pressure from the European Union over its decision not to make available a new artificial intelligence model with extraordinary hacking capabilities ...
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China's top economic planning body, the National Development and Reform Committee (NDRC), announced on April 27 that it has called on US technology company Meta to ...
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Daily summary of the Czech economy: the PX, Microsoft and OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, Forvia, Apollo Global Management and the Strait of Hormuz (April 28, 2026)
From Cinka TomasAn overview of the latest economic events in the Czech Republic The Prague Stock Exchange ended Monday with its sixth consecutive decline - the longest downward streak since the end of 2024. ...
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The Chinese AI model GLM-5.1 can operate autonomously for up to eight hours. The open-source giant becomes the world's top challenger
From Cinka TomasChinese company Z.ai has updated its flagship open-weight language model, and the new GLM-5.1 version rewrites the rules of the game in the field of agent-based AI ...
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Czech Daily Economic Summary: Housing Prices, IBM, Confluent, Clario, Meta, Amazon and Nvidia, Oil and Fashion (April 27, 2026)
From Cinka TomasAn overview of the latest economic events in the Czech Republic The Czech real estate market continues its steady but unnoticeable increase in rent prices. Data for the first quarter of this year ...
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Humanoid robots are gradually making their way out of the lab and into the real world. US company Agility Robotics has started a collaboration with German auto parts manufacturer Schaeffler, where ...
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How AI is changing software development: what's accelerating significantly and where it's failing so far
From Cinka TomasArtificial intelligence-based tools, so-called „coding agents“, are fundamentally changing the way software is created today. But not all areas of development are accelerating in the same way. ...