Hints and tips:
...Baidu is taking the most concrete early steps, with plans to launch a chatbot named Ernie in its search engine in the next few months, similar to Microsoft and OpenAI’s Bing Chat....
...But the arrival of ChatGPT — which can generate articles, essays, jokes and even poetry — has left Chinese players scrambling to catch up, write Nikkei Asia’s Yifan Yu and Cissy Zhou....
...“The national security law makes clear that it has the overriding status,” said Bing Ling, a Chinese law expert at the University of Sydney....
...Zhou Ziqin, a researcher at Jia Yuan Law Offices, said: “I prefer to use Bing if I can, and sometimes even WeChat search is better than Baidu because a lot of companies publish information first on their...
...Austrian artist collective, made a number of sales in the US$16,000 to $50,000 range, while on the upper level, among Ben Brown’s sales were a large image of Shanghai by Wang Keping (about €40,000) and a Xu Bing...
...Several other companies under the Zhongxu umbrella are controlled by a Sichuan businessman called Wu Bing, 50, but Mr Wu was detained by authorities in August, according to Chinese media reports and people...
...The works date from 1983 to 2002, and as well as the Zhou include Xu Bing’s “Softening the Brush” (1996). Prices range from €25,000-€250,000....
...Wang Jianwei’s video From the Masses, to the Masses (2000) features the dance of a plastic bag through the city, while Zhou Tao’s video 1,2,3,4 (2000) documents zany consumer promotions in Shanghai....
...One of these is Hu Bing....
...It is easy enough to nurture the image of a shadowy Chinese cadre quietly taking over, but anyone who spends time with Yi Bing, a businesswoman who has just set up an acupuncture clinic in central Luanda...
International Edition