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Hangzhou Zhiyi Technology provides clients with data-driven analysis of fashion market trends, based on style and sales data gathered from major shopping and social-media sites. Photo: Shutterstock

Tech Trends

How a Chinese AI start-up helps Nike, Gap, Urban Revivo predict fashion trends

Hangzhou Zhiyi Technology’s operations reflect how AI adoption in mainland China is expanding and transforming various industries.

Food security takes root: how China’s Xinjiang is at forefront of national push

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Taiwan blacklists leading chipmakers Huawei, SMIC amid US-China tech rivalry

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Hong Kong virtual insurer OneDegree seeks greater Middle East growth

Co-founder attributes company’s success to its ‘cybersecurity technology and comprehensive underwriting framework’.

Alvin Kwock Yin-lun, co-founder of online insurer OneDegree. Photo: Handout
Alvin Kwock Yin-lun, co-founder of online insurer OneDegree. Photo: Handout

Tech Trends

Meet Goku, the Chinese quant fund with AI ambitions beyond finance

The Shanghai-based firm and subsidiary AllMind are pursuing AI-assisted scientific discovery, drawing comparisons with DeepSeek.

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Hong Kong plans new AI supercomputing centre to boost tech hub status

The facilities will provide computing power for the Greater Bay Area and beyond, says innovation chief Sun Dong during a tech show in Paris.

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Business

InvestHK pivots to support Hong Kong start-ups’ global growth

After 25 years promoting the city as an investment destination, InvestHK is now championing Hong Kong companies’ overseas expansion.

Illustration by Henry Wong
Illustration by Henry Wong

Tech War

Temu resumes direct sales to US after Washington-Beijing trade truce

Some items that had been removed from Temu’s US marketplace last month have been made available for sale in recent days.

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China Business

Hong Kong to allow drones with higher payloads to boost low-altitude economy

Laws and regulations are being amended to promote the development of the low-altitude economy, deputy financial secretary says.

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Tech War

Huawei’s AI chip output limited to 200,000 in 2025, US commerce official says

That number falls short of Nvidia’s over 1 million China-specific H20 chips produced in the last nine months of 2024, analysts estimate.

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Use of Huawei’s Ascend AI chips “anywhere in the world” could be interpreted as a violation of US export controls, according to new guidance from Washington. Photo: Shutterstock

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Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies sink after Israel air strikes on Iran

Over US$1 billion worth of long positions across all cryptocurrencies were liquidated in the past 24 hours, according to Coinglass data.

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Bitcoin slid as much as 3 per cent early on Friday in Singapore to dip below US$103,000 before paring losses. Photo: Shutterstock
Bitcoin slid as much as 3 per cent early on Friday in Singapore to dip below US$103,000 before paring losses. Photo: Shutterstock

Big Tech

‘Watershed moment’: how Huawei’s HarmonyOS flourished in China amid US sanctions

Nearly half of smartphones and tablets running the Chinese tech giant’s Android alternative were shipped in 2024.

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Apple targets spring 2026 for release of delayed Siri AI upgrade

The company originally introduced the next-generation Siri features at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June of last year.

Big Tech

AMD says new chips can top Nvidia’s in booming AI chip field

The new instalments in AMD’s MI350 chip series are faster than Nvidia counterparts and represent major gains over earlier versions, Su said.

AMD CEO Lisa Su holds an MI300X chip at an event in San Francisco, California, on June 13, 2023. Photo: Reuters

Tech War

Apple is shipping nearly all of its India-made iPhones to the US

From March to May, Foxconn exported iPhones worth US$3.2 billion from India, with an average of 97 per cent shipped to the US.

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A man checks an iPhone 16 Pro as the new iPhone 16 series smartphones go on sale at an Apple store in Beijing on September 20, 2024. Photo: Reuters
A man checks an iPhone 16 Pro as the new iPhone 16 series smartphones go on sale at an Apple store in Beijing on September 20, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Big Tech

TikTok’s sister app Douyin courts merchants with lower deposit fees

The zero-deposit policy expands a pilot programme that started in February, initially covering stores that sold certain types of goods.

Tech War

Nvidia CEO says Huawei has everyone ‘covered’ if US chip ban on China stays

Still, Jensen Huang says his company’s technology remains a generation ahead of those developed by Chinese rivals.

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Big Tech

Tech war takes a new turn as Huawei pushes 5G smartphones with mystery chip

Huawei’s return to the 5G smartphone market and the controversy over its advanced, made-in-China processor reflect the lengths taken by the company to build up its operations, following years of struggles on account of US trade sanctions.

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Illustration: Davies Christian Surya

Big Tech

ChatGPT sparks investment frenzy and soul searching in China

While China had declared AI strategically important as early as 2018, ChatGPT has shattered illusions about the country’s technological prowess.

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Policy

China’s e-CNY blues: major test bed shows sluggish adoption

More than three years after China’s central bank started digital currency trials, adoption in one of the initial test beds, Suzhou, remains lethargic.

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Tech

Can Huawei’s 5G-powered Tianjin Port redefine its enterprise business?

Tianjin Port is the latest technological showpiece of Huawei Technologies, as the world’s largest provider of phone network equipment reinvents itself after nearly four years of crushing US sanctions.

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How a Chinese AI start-up helps Nike, Gap, Urban Revivo predict fashion trends

Hangzhou Zhiyi Technology provides clients with data-driven analysis of fashion market trends, based on style and sales data gathered from major shopping and social-media sites. Photo: Shutterstock

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Food security takes root: how China’s Xinjiang is at forefront of national push

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Meet Goku, the Chinese quant fund with AI ambitions beyond finance

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Hong Kong plans new AI supercomputing centre to boost tech hub status

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‘Watershed moment’: how Huawei’s HarmonyOS flourished in China amid US sanctions

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Huawei’s AI chip output limited to 200,000 in 2025, US commerce official says

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An ad in Hong Kong for BytePlus, a ByteDance cloud computing platform featuring AI services. Photo: Eugene Lee
Artificial intelligence

China’s AI race heats up as SenseTime, ByteDance unveil model updates

The two companies are the latest to join DeepSeek, Baidu and Alibaba in enhancing their AI services amid intense market competition.

ByteDance helps jewellery firm Lao Feng Xiang push AI glasses to China’s elderly

Ant International and Ant Digital to seek stablecoin licences in Hong Kong

Jack Ma replies to Alibaba employee’s letter lamenting ‘company disease’

The logo of Alibaba is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, July 6, 2023. Photo: AFP

With early stablecoin law, Hong Kong looks to keep edge as finance hub

A view of Hong Kong’s central business district on October 9, 2024. Some analysts see the city’s new stablecoin law as providing advantages for maintaining its position as a finance hub. Photo: May Tse

Joe Tsai says open-source AI will boost Alibaba’s cloud business

Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai speaks on stage during the VivaTech trade show in Paris on Wednesday. Photo: Xinmei Shen

DJI launches US$10,000 enterprise drone that can avoid power lines at night

DJI’s Matrice 400 enterprise drone flies near a high-voltage transmission tower. Photo: Handout
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Huawei Technologies

Chinese tech champions boost Europe ties amid US tensions

At VivaTech, the Chinese ambassador to France says Beijing is ready to collaborate with Paris to enhance scientific and technological exchanges.

Nvidia bets on European AI push amid shrinking China revenue

With early stablecoin law, Hong Kong looks to keep edge as finance hub

Huawei founder sheds light on China’s strategy to overcome US curbs

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Artificial intelligence

China’s AI race heats up as SenseTime, ByteDance unveil model updates

The two companies are the latest to join DeepSeek, Baidu and Alibaba in enhancing their AI services amid intense market competition.

Chinese tech champions boost Europe ties amid US tensions

Ant International and Ant Digital to seek stablecoin licences in Hong Kong

Nvidia bets on European AI push amid shrinking China revenue

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang interacts with a small robot during his VivaTech presentation in Paris on June 11. Photo: Reuters

Jack Ma replies to Alibaba employee’s letter lamenting ‘company disease’

The logo of Alibaba is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, July 6, 2023. Photo: AFP

Joe Tsai says open-source AI will boost Alibaba’s cloud business

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Huawei founder sheds light on China’s strategy to overcome US curbs

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Ant International and Ant Digital to seek stablecoin licences in Hong Kong

The two Ant units’ move aligns with its global ambitions as other companies, including rival JD.com, line up to issue fiat-backed cryptocurrencies.

With early stablecoin law, Hong Kong looks to keep edge as finance hub

iFlytek says using local chips in AI models extends development time by 3 months

China plans to turn Shenzhen into AI and aviation hub amid US sanctions

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In Hong Kong and globally, AI is not a job and wage killer, PwC says

Across all industries, roles that ‘collate AI with human expertise’ are in demand and command a premium, report says.

China steps up global aviation expansion as Comac bids for Laos carrier

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China’s AI race heats up as SenseTime, ByteDance unveil model updates

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Xpeng and Chinese EV peers aim to win over Hongkongers amid global push

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ByteDance helps jewellery firm Lao Feng Xiang push AI glasses to China’s elderly

Powered by ByteDance’s artificial intelligence technology, Lao Feng Xiang’s smart glasses feature real-time voice navigation and translation functions. Photo: Handout

With early stablecoin law, Hong Kong looks to keep edge as finance hub

A view of Hong Kong’s central business district on October 9, 2024. Some analysts see the city’s new stablecoin law as providing advantages for maintaining its position as a finance hub. Photo: May Tse