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Wency Chen
Senior Reporter, Tech
Wency tells stories that explore how technologies are reshaping society, with a focus on cross-border e-commerce, AI, the supply chain and others. Before joining SCMP, Wency contributed to KrASIA, Wired, Rest of World, World of Chinese, Tech in Asia, Vice China (BIE), Harper's Bazaar, etc. She attended Columbia Journalism School.
Wency tells stories that explore how technologies are reshaping society, with a focus on cross-border e-commerce, AI, the supply chain and others. Before joining SCMP, Wency contributed to KrASIA, Wired, Rest of World, World of Chinese, Tech in Asia, Vice China (BIE), Harper's Bazaar, etc. She attended Columbia Journalism School.
Areas of Expertise:
Cross-border e-commerce, Big Tech, AI Languages Spoken:
English, Mandarin
Tech firms are racing to build colossal clusters for next-gen AI, but cost, power and scale remain challenges.
The country’s biggest online travel services provider is accused of abusing its ‘dominant market position’.
China’s tech sector thrives on state-backed investment, reshaping funding dynamics and sparking a debate about balancing risk and innovation.
Experts at WAIC discuss the bottlenecks preventing embodied AI from improving robots’ real-world interactions.
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Delegates at the World AI Conference in Shanghai warn fragmentation risks isolating emerging markets and concentrating advanced computing in rich economies.
The conference attracted more than 1,100 companies displaying some 3,000 exhibits, with hundreds of products making their global debut.
Gathering will showcase Beijing’s push to compete across the full AI stack, from models and chips to robots, consumer devices.
Company’s fresh fundraising talks come straight off its landmark Series A, as investors scramble to back national AI champion.
Huawei spin-off Honor has been developing what it calls a ‘next-generation terminal operating system’, known as Agentic OS.
As US sanctions block access to advanced lithography, a Shanghai-based firm bets on chip redesign, 3D memory stacking to break bottlenecks.
New Chinese artificial intelligence regulations, which target emotional dependence and content unsuitable for minors, take effect on July 15.
Beijing aims to ‘temporarily ease the training bottleneck’ in China’s AI industry, but it remains focused on tech self-sufficiency, analysts say.
Custom silicon allows for hardware optimisation tailored to specific architectures, such as the DeepSeek-R1 model.
China’s shipments of AI phones and computers are expected to overtake non-AI gadgets this year.
With Beijing’s rules on humanlike AI interaction services taking effect on July 15, Doubao and Qwen move to disable customised features.
The robot maker plans to raise 4.2 billion yuan by selling at least 40 million shares that implies a valuation of around 42 billion yuan.
Operator of big-name budget marketplaces Pinduoduo and Temu is buying an office and adding 5,000 jobs in the hyped-up Xiongan New Area.
The Kuaishou Technology spin-off aims to start Hong Kong listing process within a year, as annual recurring revenue soars following latest AI video model release.
Makers of power semiconductors, including Germany’s Infineon, US-based Texas Instruments and China’s Yangjie Technology, have raised prices.
To accelerate development and help secure foundry capacity, ByteDance is collaborating with US chipmaker Qualcomm.
China’s office workers are worrying whether their jobs can be done by artificial intelligence – and whether their companies will make the switch.
The Chinese AI giant is looking to double in size as it seeks to become a ‘driving force’ in the creation of artificial general intelligence.
Executives at MWC Shanghai say next phase needs to encompass both the skies and oceans to meet skyrocketing demand for AI computing.
FusionAlpha is a simulator designed to help developers test reactor designs on computers before committing to expensive physical experiments.
Liang remains committed to pursuing artificial general intelligence (AGI) – a vision he reinforced to investors repeatedly last month.
Driven by AI’s massive power demands and satellite bandwidth limits, tech giants and superpowers are moving data centres into orbit.
Alibaba unveils Qwen robot models to push AI beyond chatbots, as embodied intelligence becomes the next frontier in global AI.
The country is pushing for self-reliance in important industries amid competition with the US over advanced technology fabrication.
Major platforms are deploying paid subscriptions and coding tools, favouring practical utility over raw power to unlock significant commercial revenue.
