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League of Legends world championship returns to China as esports sector grows
Event kicks off in Beijing on October 14, moves to Shanghai from October 28 to November 2, and then to Chengdu for the November 9 final.
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Artificial intelligence
Shanghai expo sets stage for US-China face-off in heated AI race
25 Jul 2025 - 6:00PM
Biomedicine: Companies
Pfizer, Chinese biotech firm 3SBio complete licensing deal for cancer drug
25 Jul 2025 - 5:10PM
E-commerce
JD.com eyes US$2.6 billion takeover of German electronics retailer
JD.com has been hunting for acquisitions to expand amid weakness in the Chinese economy.
25 Jul 2025 - 3:12PM
Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com is in talks to buy Germany’s Ceconomy. Photo: Reuters
Smartphones
Samsung aims to expand smartphone AI beyond Google Gemini
The South Korean giant is in talks with the likes of OpenAI and Perplexity to give users more options on its coming GalaxyS26 series.
25 Jul 2025 - 12:32PM
Semiconductors
Intel slashes a fifth of staff as new CEO revamps chipmaking business
The company will halt planned factories in Poland and Germany, and consolidate chip packaging operations in Vietnam and Malaysia.
25 Jul 2025 - 11:19AM
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Artificial intelligence
Tencent’s AI-powered programming tool fully automates app development
CodeBuddy IDE provides a ‘conversation-is-programming’ approach, enabling even a non-technical user to design and build applications.
24 Jul 2025 - 7:30PM
Tencent’s foray into sophisticated, AI-powered tools for developers reflected the significant advances being made by Chinese tech companies. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence
US and EU users open to Chinese AI models like DeepSeek: survey
More than half of US and EU respondents, however, say they will only use models hosted on non-Chinese infrastructure.
24 Jul 2025 - 4:00PM
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Semiconductors
AMD’s Lisa Su sees chips from TSMC’s Arizona plant costing more
The Advanced Micro Devices CEO says the company’s first chips from TSMC’s US facilities are expected by the end of the year.
24 Jul 2025 - 2:03PM
Semiconductors
Singaporean chip tool maker ASMPT sees steady growth amid AI infrastructure boom
‘The massive buildout of data centres will drive a lot of demand for AI chips,’ CEO Robin Ng says.
23 Jul 2025 - 9:58PM
Artificial intelligence
Alibaba unleashes Qwen3 coding model for developers to push AI agent adoption
In new benchmark tests, Alibaba’s Qwen3-Coder outperformed rival models from Moonshot AI and DeepSeek.
23 Jul 2025 - 6:30PM
Alibaba’s Qwen3-Coder is expected to give developers a boost in creating AI agents. Photo: Shutterstock
Alibaba
Alibaba’s Taobao sees 60% user surge in Thailand after local launch
Taobao’s intensified focus on Thailand marks its latest effort to grow its presence across Asia.
23 Jul 2025 - 5:00PM
US-China relations
Chinese hacking groups are behind SharePoint attacks, Microsoft says
Microsoft said it identified 2 groups as leveraging flaws in SharePoint software; China said it firmly opposes all forms of cyberattacks.
23 Jul 2025 - 3:14AM
Semiconductors
Nvidia to support RISC-V processors in latest boost to China’s chip self-sufficiency drive
The move represents a major step by the US semiconductor giant in boosting the development of open-source chip architecture in AI computing.
22 Jul 2025 - 6:06PM
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Alibaba
Alibaba upgrades Qwen3 model to outperform OpenAI, DeepSeek in maths, coding
A member of the Qwen3 family gets an upgrade and outperforms products from rivals OpenAI and DeepSeek.
22 Jul 2025 - 5:00PM
The Qwen logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. Photo: Shutterstock Images
E-commerce
JD.com said to buy majority stake in Hong Kong’s Kai Bo grocery chain
Report says JD.com buys 70 per cent stake in Kai Bo Food Supermarket for US$509 million.
23 Jul 2025 - 11:35AM
Artificial intelligence
Chinese open-source AI models occupy top spots among global developers: ranking
Kimi K2, MiniMax M1, Qwen 3 and a variant of DeepSeek R1 rank as the world’s top open-sourced AI models, according to LMArena.
21 Jul 2025 - 4:00PM
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Asia Tech
China’s SpinQ sees quantum computing crossing ‘usefulness’ threshold in 5 years
Shenzhen-based SpinQ expects to deliver a 100-qubit quantum computer by the end of the year, founder and CEO says.
22 Jul 2025 - 9:10AM
SpinQ founder and CEO Xiang Jingen, at left. Photo: SpinQ
ByteDance
From TikTok to Huawei, Chinese tech giants flock to Arab tech hub Dubai
Dubai’s tech-friendly policies are a boon to Chinese companies facing domestic challenges and accelerating their overseas expansion.
20 Jul 2025 - 8:30AM
E-commerce
China’s market regulator summons Alibaba, Meituan, JD amid delivery war
The meeting follows months of fierce competition, during which the companies offered a blizzard of food delivery discounts to win over users.
19 Jul 2025 - 1:30PM
Artificial intelligence
How open-source AI is helping China win hearts and market share
China’s free-for-all AI models, developed by firms like DeepSeek and Alibaba, present a viable alternative to US closed-source systems.
19 Jul 2025 - 10:00AM
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Artificial intelligence
Nvidia CEO meets China’s commerce minister to discuss AI cooperation
In a meeting with Jensen Huang, Minister Wang Wentao says China’s doors are wide open for Nvidia and other multinational firms.
18 Jul 2025 - 9:00PM
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends the opening ceremony of the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Wednesday. Photo: Kyodo
E-commerce
Meituan executive bemoans ‘irrational’ price war with Alibaba, JD.com
Comments come as the three rivals offer increasingly hefty discounts in a heated battle for market share.
17 Jul 2025 - 7:00PM
TSMC
Chipmaking giant TSMC raises 2025 sales forecast amid AI optimism
TSMC’s move underscores resilient demand for high-end chips from the likes of Nvidia, despite earlier doubts brought by China’s DeepSeek.
17 Jul 2025 - 5:21PM
Artificial intelligence
AI for science, drug discovery to have ‘greatest impact’, says Nvidia’s Huang
Biology was created by nature and therefore harder to ‘manipulate’, Huang said at the China International Supply Chain Expo on Thursday.
17 Jul 2025 - 5:05PM
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