In April the party’s Politburo met for its second-ever study session on AI (the first was in 2018). At the meeting, Mr Xi told his lieutenants that China should focus on how it can be applied to ...

The problem as he saw it, Zuckerberg went on in his email to chief product officer Chris Cox and Tom Alison, who runs Facebook itself, was that Facebook’s “cultural relevance” was tied to users’ ...