Beijing court’s ruling that AI-generated content can be covered by copyright eschews US stand, with far-reaching implications on tech’s use
- The Beijing Internet Court ruled that an AI-generated image in an intellectual property dispute was an artwork protected by copyright laws
- That decision is expected have far-reaching implications for future AI copyright disputes, which could eventually benefit Chinese Big Tech companies
Huawei to launch premium Pura 80 smartphone series on June 11, featuring HarmonyOS Next
The Chinese tech giant has remained silent amid speculation about an upgraded chip for the coming model
The Pura 80 series would be available in China from June 11, Huawei said via its official Weibo account on Tuesday. The devices will retain the triangular-shaped camera bump seen in previous models, according to a teaser image, but are expected to feature notable upgrades in cameras, sensors and lens compared to the Pura 70, according to local media reports.
Huawei’s smartphone business has become a symbol of the Chinese company’s resilience against US sanctions. Although overseas sales have suffered partly because of the absence of Google services like Gmail, the firm has made a strong comeback in the domestic high-end smartphone market.
Shenzhen-based Huawei surprised the market in August 2023 when it launched the Mate 60 series equipped with an advanced 5G chip, which was thought to be impossible under US sanctions. While Huawei has been tight-lipped about its chip, a third-party teardown analysis found that the 7-nanometre chip was the Kirin 9000s, an in-house design.
In last year’s Mate 70 model, Huawei used the Kirin 9020 chip, according to a third-party analysis. Nanoreview.net, a platform for comparing and ranking tech products, recently compared the Kirin 9020 chip with Apple’s A18 chip used in the iPhone 16. While the A18 showed significantly faster processing speeds, the Kirin 9020 offered 14 per cent higher memory bandwidth.
Industry observers are waiting to see if Huawei would reveal details about the chip used in the Pura 80. The company has remained silent amid speculation about an upgraded chip for this model.
Next-generation battery expert Zhou Jianbin leaves US for China as nations seek tech edge
Research into solid-state batteries, seen as a key tech battleground, is a priority for major economies
Zhou Jianbin earned his PhD at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2017 before working as a researcher at USTC and then in the United States at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of California, San Diego.
He spent 16 months at Sonocharge Energy, a battery start-up in the US private sector, before returning to China in March as a special professor at USTC.
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During his postdoctoral studies in 2017, Zhou was one of only 300 recipients nationwide of China’s Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Programme, which recognised promising early-career scientists.
Zhou’s research focuses on the design and development of electrode materials and electrolytes for high-performance solid-state metal batteries, as well as exploring the application of novel electrochemical materials in fields such as catalysis and biomedicine.
His notable achievements include work on lithium-sulphur and sodium-ion battery materials and the development of high-capacity energy storage devices.
Zhou has an extensive publication record in top-tier international academic journals, with more than 20 papers published in publications such as Nature, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Joule, Chem, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials and Advanced Functional Materials.
