3 hours ago
An account that transcribes conversations overheard in public published a quarrel between a mother and her fifth-grade daughter over how often to change a sanitary pad — and 16,000-odd likes later, China is arguing about frugality, period shame and who controls a household's money.
Chinese palaeontologists have described the earliest known bird that could not fly — a ground-running, 821-gram species from Jurassic Fujian published in Nature — evidence that bird evolution was not aimed at flight from the start.
A token-consumption disclosure showing 55% of China's AI compute going to short dramas and video generation, against 15% to research, has set off a national argument about what the country's artificial intelligence is for — and investors are backing the dramas.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory says its scientific multimodal model Shusheng-S2 helped prove the three-dimensional Ghys conjecture, open for more than three decades — then handed the result to Peking University mathematicians, who verified it with a formal proof-checking framework.
China's industry, cyberspace and market-regulator ministries have formed a joint investigation group into the Zunjie V800, whose brake-pedal bracket snapped in independent testing — turning a carmaker's damage-control exercise into a nationally supervised safety case.
Ten years after the actor-singer's death, marked on Weibo on what would have been his 39th birthday, the day's heaviest posts were his father's account of the insomnia that preceded it — and his mother's point that the online abuse that once targeted their son now follows the parents themselves.
15 Oct 2026
15 Oct 2026
15 Oct 2026
15 Oct 2026
15 Oct 2026