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Semiconductors
Another Apple chip engineer returns to China to nurture next-generation talent
Kong Long left Apple after seven years, following the recent return of M4 CPU engineer Wang Huanyu to China.
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Robotics
Venture capital veteran Allen Zhu questions humanoid robots’ value
31 Mar 2025 - 5:00PM
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Huawei
Huawei’s consumer business sees 38% surge in revenue on robust smartphone sales
31 Mar 2025 - 4:58PM
Artificial intelligence
A DeepSeek moment is playing out in rural China as peasants seek AI advice
Rural residents, who account for a third of China’s 1.4 billion population, are eager to apply AI services.
30 Mar 2025 - 10:00AM
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Farmers harvest cabbages in Tangshan, north China’s Hebei Province, November 6, 2024. Photo: Xinhua
Banking & finance
DeepSeek has boosted the faith of rich Chinese investors in tech stocks: StanChart
The AI boom in China has convinced Chinese investors that the markets will continue to rise, Standard Chartered’s Judy Hsu says.
30 Mar 2025 - 9:30AM
Electric & new energy vehicles
Xpeng CEO says flying car market will be bigger than EVs over next two decades
CEO He Xiaopeng believes the global flying car market could reach US$2 trillion in the next two decades, double the size of land vehicles.
29 Mar 2025 - 3:51PM
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Elon Musk sells X social media platform to his own xAI for US$33 billion
The tech billionaire plans to combine the ‘data, models, compute, distribution and talent’ from the app and start-up.
29 Mar 2025 - 7:40AM
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk wears a ‘Trump Was Right About Everything!’ hat while attending a cabinet meeting at the White House on Monday. Photo: Reuters
Smartphones
Google’s Android transparency shift unnerves Chinese developers
Google is no longer developing Android in the open, which some developers believe could give an advantage to Huawei’s HarmonyOS.
28 Mar 2025 - 8:03PM
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Electric & new energy vehicles
Chinese EV industry pressed to accelerate global expansion amid tariffs
Companies should balance exports and overseas production while seeking to achieve win-wins with foreign partners, former vice-minister says.
28 Mar 2025 - 8:00PM
TikTok
TikTok Shop to expand to Germany, France, Italy next week amid uncertainty in US
The move marks a major expansion of the short-video app’s e-commerce operations in Europe as it faces a looming ban in its largest market.
28 Mar 2025 - 5:23PM
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Semiconductors
China’s top foundry SMIC reports revenue growth in 2024, but net profits plunge
Full-year revenue grew 27 per cent to US$8 billion but net profit plunged 45.4 per cent to US$493 million.
28 Mar 2025 - 3:30PM
Exterior view of SMIC’s facilities in Pudong district, Shanghai on March 15, 2024. Photo: AFP
Alibaba
Alibaba’s AI crackdown: Taobao says e-commerce images must be ‘realistic’
Taobao’s initiative aligns with China’s broader regulatory efforts to address the misuse of generative AI.
27 Mar 2025 - 8:00PM
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Alibaba
Alibaba launches AI model that can process images and video on the go
The multimodal Qwen2.5-Omni-7B model is designed to run locally on mobile devices and tops rivals in some benchmarks.
27 Mar 2025 - 6:00PM
Artificial intelligence
China’s 2025 cloud spending to grow 15% on the back of DeepSeek adoption
Cloud spending, which totalled US$40 billion in 2024, is expected to reach US$46 billion this year as cloud providers expand investments.
27 Mar 2025 - 5:00PM
Robotics
US robotics firms push for national strategy to compete with China
Tesla, Boston Dynamics and others are pushing for US policies that would boost American companies in the global robotics race.
27 Mar 2025 - 3:31PM
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Humanoid robots perform at the Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE
China manufacturing
‘Dominant’: US and Chinese robotics start-ups attract 75% of global funding
America and China are ‘reinforcing their leadership’ in robotics, allowing them to shape the future of automation, new study finds.
27 Mar 2025 - 2:49PM
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Robotics
Unitree Robotics profitable since 2020, eyes expansion amid high demand
The Hangzhou start-up known for its robot dogs told local media it had no immediate plans for additional fundraising.
28 Mar 2025 - 10:16AM
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Artificial intelligence
Microsoft abandons data centre projects, sparking oversupply fears
Microsoft’s retrenchment in the last six months included lease cancellations and deferrals, analysts at investment bank TD Cowen said.
27 Mar 2025 - 10:09AM
Microsoft’s offices in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris, France. Photo: Reuters
US-China tech war
Beijing AI research lab says inclusion on US export control list a ‘mistake’
The updated BIS list includes more than 50 new Chinese entities, including six units of cloud computing provider Inspur Group.
27 Mar 2025 - 1:06AM
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Artificial intelligence
Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai questions AI’s limits, casts doubt on humanoid robots
Speaking at Alibaba’s Jumpstarter event, the entrepreneur said much of what humans value is not captured in training data.
26 Mar 2025 - 8:55PM
Alibaba
Alibaba, Ant partner with home province to boost China’s AI drive
The two tech giants have become key partners in empowering government agencies with AI capabilities.
26 Mar 2025 - 6:30PM
Tencent
Tencent adds AI chatbot friend to WeChat to keep users glued to app
WeChat users can now add Yuanbao as a ‘friend’ and interact with the chatbot without downloading a separate app.
26 Mar 2025 - 5:15PM
WeChat has added the Yuanbao AI chatbot to its messaging feature. Photo: Shutterstock
Apple
Apple CEO meets top Chinese officials in charm offensive but offers no AI update
Cook was among 80 company executives who attended the China Development Forum, an annual event to facilitate dialogue with global investors.
26 Mar 2025 - 3:04PM
Artificial intelligence
ChatGPT can now create charts for work and edit photos better
The new capabilities are available to both free and paid users via OpenAI’s GPT-4o model.
26 Mar 2025 - 9:49AM
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Robotics
Chinese tech giant Tencent invests in Shanghai robotics start-up Agibot
Robots have become a hot investment area in China as VC firms, supply chain partners and tech giants jostle to back leading start-ups.
25 Mar 2025 - 9:29PM
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