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A driverless car by Apollo Go, Baidu’s robotaxi service, drives past another Apollo Go vehicle in Wuhan on July 19, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Big Tech

Baidu’s robotaxi service completes 11 million ride amid company growth

The tech giant has been expanding its autonomous ride-hailing service, while AI growth helped it beat profit expectations in the first quarter.

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Meet Chinese start-up Xreal, Google’s partner in AR glasses project

China’s army of robot makers jostle for attention in overcrowded market

Markets

Hong Kong passes stablecoin law, clearing way for sales to public

Law sets up a ‘risk-based, pragmatic, and flexible regulatory regime’ with public protection in mind, head of city’s monetary authority says.

A view of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council Complex at Tamar in Admiralty on March 8, 2024. Photo: Jelly Tse
A view of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council Complex at Tamar in Admiralty on March 8, 2024. Photo: Jelly Tse

Big Tech

Chinese biotech firm secures Pfizer deal despite trade tensions

Pfizer will produce the drug, which targets lung and colorectal cancers, in the US and take a US$100 million stake in China’s 3SBio.

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Big Tech

Alibaba lands US$250 million convertible bonds deal with selfie app giant Meitu

The strategic collaboration is expected to serve as ‘the foundation of a long-term partnership’ between Meitu and Alibaba.

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Big Tech

Nvidia CEO blasts US AI chip restrictions on China as a ‘failure’

‘Power is quite cost-effective in China. And there’s plenty of land. And so the ban on H20 is not effective,’ Jensen Huang told reporters at Computex.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holds a circuit board as he answers questions from members of the media at a press event in Taipei on May 21. Photo: Reuters
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holds a circuit board as he answers questions from members of the media at a press event in Taipei on May 21. Photo: Reuters

Tech Trends

China accuses ‘AI tigers’ Zhipu, Moonshot of collecting excessive data

Zhipu’s ChatGLM and Moonshot’s Kimi have a combined total of nearly 35 million monthly active users.

Big Tech

Alibaba and DeepSeek’s home province aims to become AI hub through big spending

A new plan from the Zhejiang government will see billions of yuan spent through 2027 to support AI companies and attract ‘top talent’.

Big Tech

Google unveils flurry of upgrades as AI threatens search business

The tech giant has announced an AI mode for all search users in the US, as well as more advanced capabilities via subscriptions.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai addresses the crowd during the company’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

Tech War

Alibaba.com sees jump in US buyer activity after US-China tariff truce

Inquiries from the US on Alibaba’s B2B marketplace surged over 40 per cent the week after Washington and Beijing hit pause on the trade war.

US buyers sent a flurry of new inquiries to sellers on Alibaba.com after the US and China agreed to a 90-day pause in tariffs. Photo: Shutterstock
US buyers sent a flurry of new inquiries to sellers on Alibaba.com after the US and China agreed to a 90-day pause in tariffs. Photo: Shutterstock

Big Tech

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls US ban on H20 AI chip ‘deeply painful’

Huang said AI was a ‘full-stack thing’, which meant protecting one layer at the expense of everything else was ‘nonsensical’.

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Tech War

Xiaomi’s new 3-nanometre chip takes on rival products from Apple, Qualcomm

The chip marks another milestone for China’s technology self-sufficiency drive amid tightened US export controls on advanced semiconductors.

Tech Trends

China smartphone exports to US, including iPhones, plunge to lowest since 2011

China’s smartphone exports slid 72 per cent to just under US$700 million in April, as Trump’s tariffs campaign disrupts tech supply chains.

The drop in China’s smartphone exports to the US underscore how Trump’s tariffs are choking off the flow of big-ticket goods between the two countries. Photo: Shutterstock

Big Tech

Huawei flexes with US$3,300 foldable tablet running HarmonyOS

Huawei has launched a foldable-screen laptop and a more traditional MateBook Pro with home-grown tech after being cut off from Microsoft and Intel.

Huawei has launched its first foldable-screen laptop running its self-developed HarmonyOS operating system. Photo: Huawei Technologies
Huawei has launched its first foldable-screen laptop running its self-developed HarmonyOS operating system. Photo: Huawei Technologies

Big Tech

Foxconn invests in India as Apple moves iPhone production from China

Apple is looking to import most of the iPhones it sells in the US from India by the end of 2026.

Big Tech

Xiaomi now one of China’s biggest semiconductor investors, founder Lei Jun says

Lei said Xiaomi has allocated US$6.9 billion for semiconductor development in China over a 10-year period.

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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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Huawei, UBTech team up to bring humanoid robots to factories and homes

UBTech’s Walker robot seen at the company’s offices in Shenzhen. Photo: Edmond So

Big Tech

Baidu’s robotaxi service completes 11 million ride amid company growth

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A driverless car by Apollo Go, Baidu’s robotaxi service, drives past another Apollo Go vehicle in Wuhan on July 19, 2024. Photo: Reuters

China Economy

How China’s next five-year plan hones in on weak links laid bare by trade war

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Analysts expect China to put greater emphasis on hi-tech advancements, manufacturing resilience and domestic consumption over the next five years. Photo: AFP

Tech Trends

Meet Chinese start-up Xreal, Google’s partner in AR glasses project

The Project Aura eyewear from Xreal and Google is expected to compete with other augmented reality spectacles from the likes of Meta Platforms, Orion and Artemis. Photo: Handout

Big Tech

China’s army of robot makers jostle for attention in overcrowded market

Service robots are demonstrated at the Canton Fair in Guangzhou, Guangdong province on April 16, 2025. Photo: AP
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Nvidia to build ‘AI supercomputer’ in Taiwan

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World’s biggest fleet of driverless mining trucks get to work in China

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