A New Book Pulls Back the Curtain on How China Actually Regulates AI

A new book, 'From Lab to Life: How AI Works in China' by researcher Collin Hogue-Spears, releases August 4 and maps the state-led governance system behind China's AI industry. It lands the same month Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model displaced Anthropic's Fable 5 atop a coding leaderboard, and offers a lens on how Beijing's approval-first regulatory model differs from the EU AI Act and California's SB 53.