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Artificial intelligence
Microsoft nears OpenAI agreement for ongoing tech access
While the tone of the talks has been positive, some of the people cautioned that the deal is not finalised and could hit new roadblocks.
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Apple
Apple loses fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta’s superintelligence team
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Artificial intelligence
Alibaba, Standard Chartered partner to accelerate AI adoption in banking sector
30 Jul 2025 - 12:55AM
Robotics
China’s humanoid robots put on a show as Tesla’s Optimus kept behind glass
The humanoid robot market segment is seeing demand from enterprises gather speed, as some manufacturers start mass production this year.
30 Jul 2025 - 12:22AM
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A woman reaches out to touch the hand of a humanoid robot at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Monday. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence
Hong Kong’s ‘superconnector’ status highlighted in US-China AI talent flow
The report found that Tsinghua University and Peking University ranked first and second, respectively, for producing global AI talent.
29 Jul 2025 - 5:00PM
Artificial intelligence
China’s Big Tech vies for AI agent supremacy after Manus relocates
Tencent showcases a dozen AI agents at China’s biggest AI event, intensifying the competition in a heated market.
29 Jul 2025 - 9:00AM
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Artificial intelligence
WAIC Shanghai: China reveals new great leap forward with 1,509 AI models
That number accounted for more than 40 per cent of the 3,755 total AI models known worldwide, according to data from the Shanghai conference.
28 Jul 2025 - 9:19PM
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A long-exposure image shows visitors at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Monday. Photo: AFP
Smartphones
Apple shuts Dalian store as Huawei tops mainland China’s smartphone market
Huawei garners 18 per cent of the market in second quarter, pushing Xiaomi to second place with a 17 per cent share, according to Canalys.
28 Jul 2025 - 8:00PM
DeepSeek
DeepSeek’s AI dominance in China challenged by Alibaba’s Qwen
DeepSeek has seen use of its models drop to 80 per cent from 99 per cent on Chinese cloud computing platform PPIO.
28 Jul 2025 - 5:00PM
Robotics
Back to basics: Keenon Robotics takes pragmatic approach with humanoids
The Chinese robot maker aims to identify simple tasks manageable by current humanoids, instead of creating an all-purpose robot.
28 Jul 2025 - 7:00AM
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Electric & new energy vehicles
Towngas to build hydrogen-powered EV stations amid mixed signals for clean fuel
‘Once our business scales up, the costs of electricity generated from hydrogen will be lower than other green power sources,’ COO Cheng says.
27 Jul 2025 - 2:00PM
Towngas sets up Hong Kong’s first hydrogen extraction system from its gas network including this plant in Tai Po. Photo: Jelly Tse
Alibaba
Alibaba previews its first AI-powered glasses, joining heated race
The Quark glasses underscore the tech giant’s significant AI investments, which encompass both software and hardware products.
28 Jul 2025 - 3:25PM
Esports
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.
25 Jul 2025 - 9:19PM
Artificial intelligence
Shanghai expo sets stage for US-China face-off in heated AI race
Business leaders who will speak at the main forum include former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, MiniMax founder Yan Junjie and SenseTime CEO Xu Li.
25 Jul 2025 - 6:00PM
Biomedicine: Companies
Pfizer, Chinese biotech firm 3SBio complete licensing deal for cancer drug
Pfizer agreed to an upfront payment of US$1.25 billion, US$150 million for mainland rights and a US$100 million equity investment in 3SBio.
25 Jul 2025 - 5:10PM
Pfizer agreed to buy a 1.3 per cent equity stake in 3SBio for HK$785 million. Photo: Shutterstock
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
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
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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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Intel’s CEO Tan Lip-bu. Photo: Reuters
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
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
ASMPT has 10,000 customers worldwide and about 3 million installed systems. Photo: Shutterstock
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
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
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