‘Discredited individuals’ in China are barred from taking high-speed trains and flights as part of the country’s efforts to adopt a carrot-and-stick approach to building trustworthiness.

Subsidiary Alibaba Cloud, which turns 10 this year, has become the e-commerce giant’s main business development focus.

The IPO could serve as a test for how well China's AI boom will be received by the world's capital markets, with several Chinese AI start-ups eyeing up possible listings

Educational innovation comes amid efforts by the world’s second-largest economy to roll out AI into all walks of life.

Zhang Yaqin, president of new business at Baidu, becomes first executive at search engine giant to opt for retirement

Database of 2 million papers show that the US share of citations in the top 10 per cent of AI papers has declined to 29 per cent while China has reached 26 per cent

Robin Li’s remarks come after news aggregation app Jinri Toutiao became the latest to join the search fray.

China sees connected EVs as an opportunity to reduce foreign oil imports and gain parity in car production with established powerhouses such as Germany, the US and Japan.

A new smart version of Chery’s Exeed TX electric sports utility vehicle will run Baidu’s AI platform, DuerOS.

Study of women in the workplace found that China’s gig economy is attracting more female workers looking for a bigger pay cheque to cover personal and family costs

Post reporter challenged Xpeng Motors’ He Xiaopeng to a game of ping pong – and learned much about the Tesla challenger in the process.

Electric carmaker to focus on joint manufacturing business model over the long term, in line with the new government policy to raise passenger car output capacity.

Beijing has called for deeper integration between the real economy and advanced technologies, including the ‘internet of things’, big data and AI.

China’s transport regulator abandons hands-off approach after Didi passenger murders, blaming industry troubles on unsustainable business model

Intel and Unisoc end 5G chip partnership amid simmering technology tensions between US and China in key areas such as semiconductors.

China is promoting the development of artificial intelligence chips with an eye on the increasing popularity of Internet of Things.

Police in Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing have run trials of software that can identify a person from 50 metres away – even if they have their face covered or back to a camera.

Chip maker’s financing comes as China is working to shake off its dependency on US$200 billion of annual chip imports

Baidu’s margin slips amid challenging macro and ad market conditions

Annual disclosures offer an insight into how the industry’s leading players are progressing and how competition between the US and China is shaping up.

AI researchers from China and the US co-develop diagnosis tool for toddler patients

Competition between the US and China in AI is shaping up to be like a new ‘space race’.

Chinese AI start-ups raised US$4.9 billion in 2017, nudging out their US counterparts which had US$4.4 billion in funding.

In China, the world’s biggest smartphone market, there is still healthy demand for Amazon’s Kindle e-readers.

Zhongguancun has 9,000 hi-tech companies, including Chinese search engine and AI champion Baidu and social media giant Sina Corp.

Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo are helping change people’s perception about the quality of Chinese Android phones.