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CXMT surges 472% on debut to become most valuable mainland China-listed firm
China’s leading DRAM maker completes the biggest-ever Star Market IPO amid an AI-driven memory boom.
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DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng’s surprising philosophy revealed in leak
26 Jul 2026 - 8:06PM
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After Apple leak, has India lost ground in its supply chain race with China?
26 Jul 2026 - 6:26AM
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Supernodes hold promise to break China’s AI bottlenecks – but will they deliver?
Tech firms are racing to build colossal clusters for next-gen AI, but cost, power and scale remain challenges.
25 Jul 2026 - 9:00PM
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A supernode server is shown to visitors during the World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 19. Photo: Xinhua
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China hits Trip.com with US$765 million antitrust penalty
The country’s biggest online travel services provider is accused of abusing its ‘dominant market position’.
25 Jul 2026 - 4:50PM
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How Beijing became China’s biggest tech venture capitalist, from AI to chips
China’s tech sector thrives on state-backed investment, reshaping funding dynamics and sparking a debate about balancing risk and innovation.
25 Jul 2026 - 10:05AM
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Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law: a new path amid US sanctions
Company founder Ren Zhengfei says the new framework is crucial for survival, enabling chip advancements without EUV lithography.
24 Jul 2026 - 10:30PM
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Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei is interviewed in Taiyuan, northern Shanxi province on February 9, 2021. Photo: Xinhua
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Surging memory chip prices make profitable budget phones ‘impossible’
Major smartphone vendors will try to abandon the money-losing segment despite strong consumer demand, and pivot to more value-added products.
24 Jul 2026 - 7:30PM
Big Tech
Tencent fires WeChat manager after 7-figure bonus leaks online, sparks uproar
Screenshots of the executive’s eye-watering compensation went viral on social media, which Tencent said caused a ‘severe negative impact’.
24 Jul 2026 - 7:18PM
Banking & Finance
Chinese GPU start-up MetaX confidentially files for Hong Kong listing: sources
Firm’s year-end listing plan underscores China’s chip self-reliance and follows Biren, Iluvatar and Moore Threads in the fundraising rush.
24 Jul 2026 - 6:34PM
Tech War
China’s Kimi K3 well behind US rivals in cyberattack ability, study shows
Kimi K3’s overall score of 32.2 per cent compares with top, unnamed US models that average 76.2 per cent.
24 Jul 2026 - 6:35PM
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The Moonshot booth promoting its Kimi K3 AI model at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, July 17, 2026. Photo: Reuters
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Nobel economist on anti-China, anti-science US, AI’s risks
MIT’s Simon Johnson, former IMF chief economist, on Trump’s wrong turns, including tariffs, the AI threat to Chinese jobs and the chances of a global recession.
24 Jul 2026 - 11:33AM
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Chinese robot co-workers on the rise. Say hello to AI cobots
Collaborative robots designed to operate alongside human workers are a fast-growing market for Chinese firms, with AI making them smarter and more useful.
24 Jul 2026 - 10:35AM
China Business
Investors fret as China’s A-share divorces echo Bezos’ Amazon split
Retail investors worry about secondary share-price movements following equity transfers resulting from large shareholders’ divorces.
24 Jul 2026 - 3:27PM
Tech War
AI experts blast US claims of ‘IP theft’ by Moonshot’s Kimi K3
Researchers point to the lack of evidence for any distillation claims, while some highlight Kimi K3’s technical innovations.
23 Jul 2026 - 8:30PM
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A Kimi logo is pictured at the Moonshot AI booth at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 18, 2026. Photo: AFP
Policy
US eyes ban on Chinese humanoid robots as US-China tech rivalry intensifies
US House has passed a bill banning the military from using Chinese bots, as Washington ramps up restrictions on Chinese-made technology.
23 Jul 2026 - 7:35PM
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China’s tech firms push beyond hardware to power the global AI boom
China’s AI model developers, optical-module makers and warehouse-robot suppliers are taking different routes to reach global markets.
23 Jul 2026 - 6:00PM
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Insert token: how China’s surging AI use is turning compute into currency
As the cost of running AI models continues to drop, the token economy is reshaping ecosystems far beyond corporate cubicles.
18 Jul 2026 - 10:00AM
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The AI industrial revolution: why US faces a historic tech reckoning from China
From EVs to robotics, China’s advancement in cutting-edge tech has seen it shake off the West’s long-standing belief in US exceptionalism.
1 Jul 2026 - 6:47AM
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For China’s tech workers, AI ‘optimisation’ sounds like ‘unemployment’
China’s office workers are worrying whether their jobs can be done by artificial intelligence – and whether their companies will make the switch.
27 Jun 2026 - 11:06AM
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Can Huawei’s ‘chip queen’ help China beat the US tech blockade?
He Tingbo says her epiphany came from an ancient irrigation system in Sichuan province, built without modern machinery or electricity.
13 Jun 2026 - 10:00AM
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