SCMP’s Ann Cao just finished covering her sixth WAIC in Shanghai, and now she’s eagerly looking forward to the next one.

The 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance concluded in Shanghai on Monday, yielding a record 20.36 billion yuan ($3 billion) in intended…

This year, China’s biggest AI conference showed an industry racing to cut computing costs, put AI agents to work, manage new risks, and find business models that can last.