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The Electric

Trump Puts Pentagon Loan Behind Next-Generation Batteries to Leapfrog China

By Steve LeVine · Aug 10, 2026 9:03am PDT
Chinese companies dominate the world’s supply of the “good enough” batteries used to power AI data centers, electricity grids and electric vehicles. Now the Trump administration, wary of growing Chinese export controls on these batteries and some of the key materials that go into them, is pouring funds into efforts to cut U.S. dependence on... Chinese companies dominate the world’s supply of the “good enough” batteries used to power AI...
Art by Clark Miller

Why U.S. Robotics Startups Are Stuffing Parts From China in Luggage

By Qianer Liu, Steve LeVine, Juro Osawa and Rocket Drew · Aug 7, 2026 7:00am PDT · 4 comments
On a muggy morning in April, a venture capitalist from San Francisco arrived in China’s southern tech hub of Shenzhen with a long shopping list. His friends at U.S. robotic startups had asked him to bring back humanoids and various robotic components from China. He headed to Shenzhen’s Huaqiangbei district, the world’s biggest electronics... On a muggy morning in April, a venture capitalist from San Francisco arrived in China’s southern...
Art by Mike Sullivan

China’s New AI Gold Rush: World Models

By Juro Osawa · Aug 5, 2026 6:00am PDT
When Hongyuan Lu finished his doctorate program in AI and engineering a year ago, he reached out to some investors to see if he could raise money for a startup to build world models, AI systems that can understand and simulate the physical world. But the investors, who were focusing on AI agent apps at the time, weren’t interested. This year,... When Hongyuan Lu finished his doctorate program in AI and engineering a year ago, he reached out...
China Renaissance CEO Fan Bao. Photo by Bloomberg.
China Tech Summit

China Tech Headed for Record Year for IPOs Despite Pandemic

By Juro Osawa and Yunan Zhang · Jul 24, 2020 4:34am PDT
The head of China Renaissance Group, one of China’s most influential investment banking and private equity firms, said he expects 2020 to be a record-breaking year for Chinese tech initial public offerings. “Right now the IPO market is sizzling hot,” said China Renaissance CEO Fan Bao, at The Information’s video summit on... The head of China Renaissance Group, one of China’s most influential investment banking and...
Jessica Lessin interviews Alibaba's Joe Tsai. Photo by Brent Pottinger.
China Subscriber Summit

Watch Interviews From Beijing and Hong Kong Summits

By The Information Staff · Oct 6, 2017 2:47pm PDT · 1 comment
If you missed our summit meetings in Hong Kong and Beijing, you can catch up with the videos here. Among those on stage were Joe Tsai of Alibaba, Shou Zi Chew of Xiaomi and Bob Xu of Zhen Fund. If you missed our summit meetings in Hong Kong and Beijing, you can catch up with the videos...
Sinovation founder Kai-Fu Lee. Photo by Bloomberg.
Silicon China

How China-U.S. Tech Ties Have Evolved

By Shai Oster · Sep 27, 2017 11:59am PDT
Tucked inside a condo around the corner from a Palo Alto supermarket is the North American office of Sinovation Ventures. One of the most active investors in Chinese startups, Sinovation is also building a portfolio of companies in the U.S. The U.S. team is led by Chris Evdemon, a Greek-born, U.K.-educated venture capitalist who cut his teeth in... Tucked inside a condo around the corner from a Palo Alto supermarket is the North American office...