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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.
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Chinese lidar maker Hesai loses lawsuit against US government for blacklisting
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No-fly zone: what brought about China’s largest power bank scandal
12 Jul 2025 - 10:57AM
Stablecoins
China’s state-asset watchdog explores role of stablecoins, other digital assets
The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission calls on state-backed firms to study the role of digital assets in trade.
11 Jul 2025 - 9:00PM
Shanghai, mainland China’s financial hub, is keeping an eye on digital-asset developments, especially the potential role of stablecoins in trade. Photo: Shutterstock
Huawei
Huawei’s Pura 80 roll-out in Dubai is latest move in global smartphone push
The Pura 80 series, which debuted in mainland China last month, marks Huawei’s latest expansion into major overseas markets.
11 Jul 2025 - 5:02PM
Artificial intelligence
Robinhood CEO raises US$100 million to build AI models for maths
Harmonic adopts a maths-first approach, which it hopes will make its model better at solving complicated problems than large language models.
11 Jul 2025 - 11:50AM
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Autonomous vehicles
Tesla plans robotaxi expansion to California and Arizona
Tesla has contacted the Arizona Department of Transportation to begin the certification process for autonomous vehicle ride-sharing.
11 Jul 2025 - 10:50AM
A Tesla Model Y electric car with special equipment for robotaxi operation is seen in downtown Austin, Texas, June 19, 2025. Photo: ZUMA Press Wire/TNS
Robotics
Robot maker AgiBot seeks stake in Shanghai firm in potential back-door listing
The Tencent-backed start-up plans to acquire a controlling stake in Swancor Advanced Materials for US$279 million.
11 Jul 2025 - 7:00AM
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
Artificial intelligence
Global AI conference in Shanghai to showcase China’s prowess, vision
High-level meeting on AI governance to be held in tandem with the three-day World Artificial Intelligence Conference, starting on July 26.
10 Jul 2025 - 8:00PM
DeepSeek
Head of China’s state-owned firm regulator visits DeepSeek, Unitree
Zhang Yuzhuo says state-owned enterprises should learn from the agile innovation practices of private firms.
10 Jul 2025 - 7:00PM
A Unitree humanoid robot blows a kiss at the company’s offices in Hangzhou, eastern China’s Zhejiang province. Photo: Xinhua
Artificial intelligence
Hong Kong’s IntelliGen AI takes on Google DeepMind in drug discovery
The start-up, which aims to raise tens of millions of US dollars in an angel funding round, hopes to compete globally, founder says.
10 Jul 2025 - 7:50PM
Artificial intelligence
Elon Musk unveils xAI’s updated chatbot, Grok 4, after antisemitism controversy
The world’s wealthiest person says Grok 4 is ‘smarter than almost all graduate students, in all disciplines, simultaneously’.
10 Jul 2025 - 4:21PM
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
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
JD.com’s latest initiative reflects its determination to unseat Meituan as mainland China’s top on-demand local delivery services provider. Photo: Shutterstock
Electric & new energy vehicles
Chinese EV maker Zeekr plugs in to hybrids to tap into soaring sales
The Geely subsidiary's switch to plug-in hybrids leaves Nio and Tesla as the only pure EV players on the mainland.
9 Jul 2025 - 7:51PM
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Chinese start-up Manus AI relocates to Singapore amid US chip curbs
Manus AI has begun recruiting in the city state, offering positions such as data analyst and AI agent engineer.
11 Jul 2025 - 10:45AM
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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
A man controls an AgiBot robot during an event organised by the Shanghai AI Industry Association, in Shanghai, February 21, 2025. Photo: AFP
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
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
Artificial intelligence
Hong Kong’s financial centre status gives it an edge in AI market, experts say
SenseTime chief financial officer Wang Zheng says ‘having easy access to capital is extremely important’ for AI companies.
10 Jul 2025 - 11:28AM
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
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, in 2023. Photo: Reuters
Semiconductors
A third of chip supply threatened by climate change by 2035: PwC
The acceleration of climate change may prove calamitous for semiconductor production, which relies on copper, a new report says.
8 Jul 2025 - 2:00PM
China technology
Chinese power bank maker suspends production after recall, aviation ban
The future of Romoss was thrown into uncertainty after its products were found to have serious defects that could lead to fires.
8 Jul 2025 - 9:00AM
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
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