Coordinating a National Computing Grid
A national computing network is less a construction project than an exercise in coordination: capacity has to be measurable, tradeable and trustable before the nodes can be joined up.
Computing Power as an Economic Driver
Each additional point on the computing power index is worth 3.5 per mille of digital economy growth. The open question is where the next round of capacity goes — and how much of it is AI.
Opening the Algorithm Black Box
Recommender systems decide what a billion people see, and almost nobody outside the platform can inspect how. Algorithmic governance is the attempt to change that — and it is harder than drafting a regulation.
Ninety-Five New AI Degrees — and the Question Behind Them
Ninety-five universities registered an artificial intelligence major this year. Whether they can staff and teach it is a separate question from whether the country needs the graduates.
Forty-Four Data Centres Make the 2021 National Green List
Six ministries published the 2021 national green data centre list: 44 sites across telecom, internet, public institutions, energy and finance.
Telecom Revenue Up 9% in the First Two Months
Telecom revenue reached RMB 258.6 billion in January and February, up 9%, with emerging services — cloud, big data, data centres and IoT — growing 34.1%.
The Digital Add and Subtract Behind Specialised SMEs
Policy is pushing to lower the digital threshold for small manufacturers. The harder half of the arithmetic is the addition — not cheaper tools, but capability.
Weaving a Tighter Net Around Personal Data
After this year's consumer rights broadcast exposed rogue apps, the regulator took 514 of them off the shelves. The compliance bar for app developers is now explicit — and still rising.
What Is Buried in an App’s Terms of Service
Five popular apps ask users to agree to an average of 27,000 characters of terms and privacy policy. Fewer than a quarter of users read any of it — and the clauses that matter are the ones nobody reads.
Cloud Vendors Chase the East-West Computing Project
The national project to move computing demand west is expected to unlock over RMB 100 billion of cloud-related investment a year. Operators and internet giants are lining up on different strengths.
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