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Huawei
Huawei eyes export of AI chips to Middle East, Southeast Asia to rival Nvidia
The Chinese firm has reached out to potential clients in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Thailand about buying its Ascend 910B processors.
12 Jul 2025 - 1:08PM
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Huawei
Huawei’s Pura 80 roll-out in Dubai is latest move in global smartphone push
11 Jul 2025 - 5:02PM
Robotics
Robot maker AgiBot seeks stake in Shanghai firm in potential back-door listing
11 Jul 2025 - 7:00AM
US-China relations
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang meets Trump before heading to China
The world’s most valuable tech company has become ensnared in a broader US-China conflict as the foremost producer of AI chips.
11 Jul 2025 - 4:23AM
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends an event in Paris in June. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence
China’s cloud services spending hits US$11.6 billion on AI-related demand
Alibaba leads the market with a 33 per cent share, followed by Huawei and Tencent with shares of 18 per cent and 10 per cent, respectively.
10 Jul 2025 - 11:24PM
TSMC
TSMC revenue climbs 39% in latest sign of AI spending boom
The chipmaker for Nvidia and Apple saw sales climb to US$32 billion for the three months, based on its reported monthly revenue.
10 Jul 2025 - 4:16PM
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Why dozens of Chinese firms are joining the weight loss drugs fray
In China, over 60 late-stage drugs are undergoing clinical trials, and may compete with those from incumbents Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly.
10 Jul 2025 - 2:00PM
Vials of Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro, a tirzepatide injection drug used for treating type 2 diabetes and weight loss, are seen in a fridge at a health clinic in Hyderabad, India, April 14, 2025. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence
OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome
OpenAI’s browser is designed to keep some user interactions within a ChatGPT-like native interface instead of clicking through to websites.
10 Jul 2025 - 1:45PM
Smartphones
Samsung bets on AI foldable phones to challenge Apple, Chinese rivals
The South Korean giant lost its global smartphone crown to Apple in 2023, and faces growing competition from Huawei and Honor.
10 Jul 2025 - 11:51AM
United States
Nvidia becomes 1st company to clinch US$4 trillion value amid AI boom
The AI chip leader’s shares hit US$164, tripling its market value in about a year and surpassing Apple and Microsoft.
10 Jul 2025 - 4:45AM
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X (formerly Twitter)
Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Musk’s X, amid Grok AI chatbot scandal
The move came after what she called ‘two incredible years’, with one analyst saying Yaccarino ‘lasted longer than many expected’.
10 Jul 2025 - 1:56AM
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Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, speaks at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January. Photo: AFP
US-China relations
TikTok prepares to launch US-specific app, as Trump pushes for sale
The US version is expected to use its own algorithm, resolving the issue of whether China’s ByteDance will share its crown jewel.
10 Jul 2025 - 1:15AM
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E-commerce
JD.com’s US$1.4 billion plan heats up delivery battle with Meituan, Alibaba
E-commerce giant unveils ‘Double Hundred Plan’ as industry-wide daily delivery orders reach a new high of more than 200 million.
9 Jul 2025 - 11:57PM
Robotics
‘EV moment’ for humanoid robots may be 5 years away, UBS says
Global humanoid robot population will surpass 300 million by 2025, with annual demand reaching 86 million units, Swiss bank says.
9 Jul 2025 - 6:00PM
SpaceX
Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans share sale that would lift value to US$400 billion
That would mark the largest-ever valuation for a privately held US company, surpassing SpaceX’s previous record of US$350 billion.
9 Jul 2025 - 4:13PM
SpaceX, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp, is among the industry’s pre-eminent rocket launch providers. Photo: Shutterstock
Apple
Apple operations chief to retire in major changing of guard
Williams has been Cook’s top deputy for more than a decade, overseeing the company’s supply chain and engineering for the Apple Watch.
9 Jul 2025 - 11:18AM
IPO
Apple supplier Lens, 4 other stocks gain in busiest day for new listings in 2025
The shares of all five companies that made their trading debuts advanced from their IPO prices.
9 Jul 2025 - 6:09PM
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Alibaba
Alibaba expert envisions AI agents transforming daily life in 5 years
Hong Kong poised for bigger role in the AI landscape thanks to capital and research capabilities, Huang Fei says at Post’s China Conference.
8 Jul 2025 - 10:35PM
Alibaba AI expert Huang Fei speaks at the SCMP China Conference 2025 at JW Marriott in Admiralty on July 8, 2025. Photo: Eugene Lee
Artificial intelligence
Meta’s AI lab scoops up two more Chinese experts from Apple, OpenAI
The new recruits include Pang Ruoming, manager of Apple’s foundations model team, and OpenAI researcher Li Yuanzhi.
8 Jul 2025 - 6:30PM
TikTok
ByteDance denies accepting Oracle deal ahead of deadline for TikTok sale
The company ‘has been studying plans’ for US-only apps, but had not made up its mind, according to a person familiar with the matter.
8 Jul 2025 - 5:00PM
Banking & finance
Can Xiaomi disrupt the home appliance market like it did with EVs?
Despite early success at home, industry watchers caution that the company faces significant challenges in competing with established players.
8 Jul 2025 - 8:30AM
Alibaba
Taobao’s daily orders soar as China’s instant e-commerce war heats up
The Taobao figures were released a day after rival Meituan reported record orders for its instant delivery service.
7 Jul 2025 - 9:00PM
A consumer uses Taobao’s instant commerce app to order food in Beijing, July 2, 2025. Photo: Simon Song
Huawei
Huawei defends AI models as home-grown after whistle-blowers raise red flags
An account on the open-source community GitHub alleged that the Huawei model had ‘extraordinary correlation’ with Alibaba’s Qwen-2.5 14B.
7 Jul 2025 - 6:00PM
Semiconductors
US curbs, Nvidia delays likely to drive Samsung’s profit down 39%
The world’s biggest maker of memory chips is projected to report its lowest income in six quarters.
7 Jul 2025 - 5:05PM
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TikTok
TikTok building new version of app ahead of expected US sale: report
The news follows Trump’s Friday statement about talks with China and a possible deal.
7 Jul 2025 - 1:00PM
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