Alibaba deepens sports tech push with new Brooklyn Nets partnership
Alibaba Group Holding has become an official technology and cloud partner of NBA team Brooklyn Nets, as the tech giant pushes for a deeper presence in the sports industry. The collaboration was announ...
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ByteDance grabs one-fifth of China’s data centre capacity as AI drives infrastructure boom
ByteDance accounts for roughly one-fifth of China’s delivered data centre capacity, making the TikTok owner the country’s largest tenant and a main driver of its artificial intelligence buildout, acco...
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How Alibaba is using AI to revamp its mapping app – and take on Meituan
Late last year, Zhang Xuan’s small beef noodle joint in Shanghai suddenly began seeing a dramatic surge in orders. Sales over the past few months have been 50 to 60 per cent higher than normal, he est...
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Xi at White House, trade-war truce extension, Golden Week travel
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump discussed artificial intelligence (AI) and Taiwan at the White House on Thursday as part of a state visit dominated by pageantry. On AI, Xi s...
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Xi-Trump dinner puts US tech titans in spotlight – what does it mean for China ties?
If the American guests seated at the head table with President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump at Thursday’s White House state dinner were any indication, Washington now views its relationshi...
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Alibaba unveils ‘pragmatic’ AI road map to drive monetisation, infrastructure efficiency
The artificial intelligence road map presented at its flagship Apsara Conference this week showcased a pragmatic pivot by Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding, offering a clearer path to monetisat...
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Alibaba Cloud set to open new data centres in Europe next year as overseas push gains pace
Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud business unit, is set to launch data centres in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands over the next 12 months, speeding up an overseas push as it seeks to wi...
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Alibaba teases 10-trillion-parameter model, debuts ‘China’s most powerful’ AI chip
Alibaba Group Holding has introduced what it called China’s most powerful artificial intelligence chip and teased plans to train an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, as top executives reaffi...
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Ant Group consolidates Alipay operations in big bet on AI ‘agentic commerce’
Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has revamped its online payments operations by creating a new business group for Alipay, as it sharpens its artificial intelligence focus on “agentic commerce” to drive...
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As AI safety fears mount, can a US-China hotline prevent a global crisis?
The United States and China’s agreement to establish an official AI dialogue, including a proposed threat-notification system, marks a pragmatic step towards crisis prevention in their tech war, even ...
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US, China agree AI dialogue ahead of Trump-Xi summit
Chinese and US negotiators made progress on artificial intelligence (AI) and trade ahead of President Xi Jinping’s visit to the White House later this week. “We had a very successful engagement with t...
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Neither the US nor China can win the AI race alone, BofA analyst says
Neither Beijing nor Washington can win the race for artificial intelligence dominance without relying on other countries, a Bank of America analyst said ahead of this week’s high-stakes bilateral summ...
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As the US weighs restrictions on cloud computing, how will China’s AI sector adapt?
When Chinese artificial intelligence developers want to train their next-generation frontier models, they all face the same daunting wall: they cannot legally buy the world’s most powerful AI chips. H...
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China’s GoPro rival Insta360 opens first US flagship store in New York’s Times Square
Chinese action camera maker Insta360 is deepening its US footprint with a flagship store opening in New York as it navigates escalating price competition with DJI and industry-wide memory cost pressur...
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Alibaba open-sources medical AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions
Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, Damo Academy, has open-sourced an artificial intelligence model capable of identifying nearly 150 abdominal conditions – including cancers – by reading computed t...
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Top Chinese AI models make 10% of OpenAI, Anthropic revenue despite high valuations: report
Chinese artificial intelligence models from seven major developers combined generate only about 10 per cent of the revenue reported for OpenAI and Anthropic, even as investor enthusiasm remains intens...
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Chip foundries better insulated in an AI slowdown than Asia-Pacific tech peers, S&P says
As market fears mount over waning Big Tech spending and calls to slow down frontier artificial intelligence development, Asia-Pacific semiconductor foundries are better positioned to withstand a poten...
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China to see major shift to Huawei for AI model training in 2027: deputy chair
Huawei Technologies expects a major domestic shift towards its artificial intelligence computing infrastructure for model training next year, as its Ascend processors gain ground on Nvidia in China de...
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How Huawei plans to bypass US chip curbs with its new UnifiedBus technology
Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled a new computing architecture that it says could make as many as 1 million processors work as a single computer, putting its UnifiedBus interconnect technology ...
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Once reliant on Samsung and SK Hynix, Chinese smartphone makers are turning to CXMT
China’s leading memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is gaining ground among local smartphone vendors, with some of its high-end chips finding their way into flagship Chinese handsets ...
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Huawei quickens AI chip pace, promises next entrant 3 quarters early
Huawei Technologies said on Thursday that it would launch its next-generation artificial intelligence chip in the first quarter of 2027, moving the target launch forward by nine months as the firm agg...
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Huawei unveils latest tech to boost AI power in push to break China’s Nvidia reliance
Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled its latest Atlas 960 SuperPoD computing cluster and an upgraded version of its UnifiedBus interconnect technology, key components of the Chinese tech giant’s s...
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China’s AI chip stocks face crucial test as MetaX lock-up period expires
China is bracing for a potential massive sell-off of a high-profile artificial intelligence chip stock on Thursday, when a lock-up period affecting 14 million shares in MetaX Integrated Circuits is se...
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Kimi creator Moonshot draws global funds seeking ‘top-tier’ Chinese AI developers: sources
China’s Moonshot AI has attracted global investor interest spanning Europe, Asia and the Middle East, people familiar with the matter say, as international capital scrambles for access to Chinese fron...
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China is beating the US in consumer AI adoption, thanks to super apps: Morgan Stanley
China is surging ahead of the US in consumer AI adoption as technology giants like Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group Holding embed artificial intelligence directly into popular everyday apps, even as...
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Forget AI KPIs: how China’s tech giants are rationing tokens for employees
When generative artificial intelligence first swept through China’s technology sector, workers faced a clear directive from management: use AI and use it often. Consuming vast numbers of AI tokens – t...
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Cloudy with a chance of Big Macs: McDonald’s and Meituan launch drone route in Shanghai
Shanghai’s bustling riverfront has become the latest testing ground for urban logistics technology, with McDonald’s and Chinese food-delivery giant Meituan joining forces to launch the country’s first...
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Trump downplays need to check AI development, says he is unwilling to cede edge to China
US President Donald Trump on Sunday played down the need for his administration to check the development of artificial intelligence, saying he worried about ceding America’s edge over China in a globa...
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The US and China are racing to build ‘self-improving AI’. Here’s what’s at stake
The US-China race for artificial intelligence dominance has entered a new phase: using AI to build better AI. Leading AI companies in the United States and China are increasingly focused on deploying ...
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Chinese optical transceiver makers dodge US ban for now as FCC updates rules
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has published its final decision on updates to its equipment authorisation rules, easing market anxiety over potential bans on Chinese optical transceive...
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