Chinese tech giants including Tencent Holdings, Alibaba Group Holding, Meituan, and Xiaomi have launched aggressive share buy-back programmes to revive investor confidence amid continuing scepticism t...
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Kuaishou-backed Kling AI is close to completing a US$3 billion fundraising round that would value the company at US$18 billion post-investment, according to people familiar with the matter, as competi...
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US chip giant Nvidia is ramping up a talent drive for its robotics team in China, a market whose vendors account for the lion’s share of global shipments. The Silicon Valley firm is recruiting for mor...
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Chinese artificial intelligence unicorn DeepSeek is introducing peak-hour surcharges for its API services, bucking a fierce domestic price war it helped start, in which rivals have been aggressively u...
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A heatwave sweeping across Europe has triggered a massive surge in sales for Chinese home appliances, with e-commerce giant Alibaba recording triple-digit growth for air conditioners and fans on its o...
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A Chinese artificial-intelligence (AI) model whose launch has been hailed as another “DeepSeek moment” can go toe-to-toe with US rival Anthropic’s powerful Mythos model on cybersecurity tasks, researc...
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Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has rolled out a major upgrade to its flagship V4 model aimed at sharply accelerating AI response generation, as competition among Chinese developers ...
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When a friend checked in on a Meituan employee late last month to see if he had survived the latest round of corporate culling at the food delivery giant, he responded drily: “I don’t know whether it ...
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China is establishing an identity system for artificial intelligence agents, as part of new national standards released on Friday to regulate the next frontier of autonomous technology. The State Admi...
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Apple’s sweeping price hikes on MacBooks and iPads, which wiped out US$260 billion of its market cap overnight, reflect a “seismic shock” the tech industry faces from rising memory and storage costs, ...
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