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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
Robotics
China’s Unitree debuts US$5,900 humanoid robot in race to make cheaper products
25 Jul 2025 - 8:27PM
Biomedicine: Companies
Pfizer, Chinese biotech firm 3SBio complete licensing deal for cancer drug
25 Jul 2025 - 5:10PM
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
A Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 smartphone. Photo: AFP
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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Electric & new energy vehicles
Leapmotor eyes global market with smart EV at half the price of Tesla’s Model 3
Deliveries to mainland Chinese customers will begin this month, but the company does not say when the new car will be sold overseas.
25 Jul 2025 - 1:55AM
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Robotics
TikTok owner ByteDance debuts robotic system in latest AI development
When integrated with GR-3, the bimanual mobile robot ByteMini could insert a hanger into a shirt and hang it on a clothes rack.
24 Jul 2025 - 10:29PM
The ByteDance GR-3 model enables robots to carry out tasks such as hanging up clothes. Photo: Handout
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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Electric & new energy vehicles
Tesla seeks a comeback in China with refreshed Model 3 and Model Y
Carmaker expects to begin delivering the models to mainland customers as early as September.
24 Jul 2025 - 3:03PM
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
Advanced Micro Devices chair and CEO Lisa Su. Photo: Shutterstock
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
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
Artificial intelligence
US falling behind China in AI energy race, Anthropic says
The Silicon Valley start-up says it is ‘concerning’ that the US added only one-tenth of the power capacity that China added last year.
23 Jul 2025 - 3:00PM
Power lines in Mountain View, California. Photo: Reuters
DeepSeek
DeepSeek’s chatbot sees a drop in downloads as AI apps for work, education rise
The average monthly download of DeepSeek’s chatbot fell 72 per cent to 22.6 million in the second quarter from the preceding three months.
22 Jul 2025 - 7:03PM
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
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Artificial intelligence
Moonshot’s Kimi K2 soars in popularity amid experts’ praise for Chinese AI
Downloads of the model double in a few days, an analyst says gap between open-source AI development in China and the US is ‘getting wider’.
22 Jul 2025 - 2:08PM
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Moonshot AI launched Kimi K2 on July 11. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence
Google and OpenAI’s AI models win milestone gold at maths Olympics
The achievement suggests AI is less than a year away from being used to crack unsolved maths research problems, one expert says.
22 Jul 2025 - 10:38AM
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Robotics
Chinese self-driving firm iMotion eyes robotics business after unveiling refinancing plan
The Suzhou-based firm says it would collaborate with Horizon Robotics to develop the iMotion iRC100 robotic controller.
21 Jul 2025 - 7:30PM
Tencent
WeChat and Uber offer seamless overseas ride-hailing for Chinese travellers
Tencent highlights the convenience of not having to download a stand-alone Uber app to hail rides overseas.
21 Jul 2025 - 6:45PM
China travel
China vows high-speed rail upgrade after years of record-breaking expansion
Beijing expected to reach 50,000km target by end of 2025, as it shifts focus to quality and efficiency.
24 Jul 2025 - 2:56PM
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A volunteer holds leaflets as he stands near a 600km High Speed Maglev model showcasing at the National Railway Test Center during a tour by delegates to the World Congress on High-Speed Rail held in Beijing, Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Photo: AP
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
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
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