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Hong Kong backs start-ups at VivaTech show in push for European market
Local start-ups from HKSTP and Cyberport will appear at the Hong Kong Tech Pavilion at VivaTech from June 11 to 14.
9 Jun 2025 - 7:00PM
ByteDance
ByteDance’s China head of content quality leaves amid stricter censorship
9 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM
Semiconductors
Qualcomm chips away at smartphone reliance with US$2.4 billion Alphawave AI bet
9 Jun 2025 - 5:44PM
DJI
China’s top drone maker DJI comes down to earth with launch of robotic cleaner
Shenzhen-based DJI will introduce a combo vacuum-mopping robot this month, a project that has been in development for four years.
9 Jun 2025 - 5:00PM
The DJI logo is displayed at the Cebit 2017 exhibition in Germany. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Artificial intelligence
RedNote says its new open-source AI model bests DeepSeek in Chinese
The company, known for its Instagram-like platform, on Friday unveiled dots.llm1, a mixture-of-experts large language model.
9 Jun 2025 - 2:00PM
Artificial intelligence
Meta in talks for Scale AI investment that could top US$10 billion
Scale AI, whose customers include Microsoft and OpenAI, provides data labelling services to help companies train machine-learning models.
9 Jun 2025 - 10:41AM
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Electric & new energy vehicles
How BYD and Chinese peers are transforming Europe’s small EV market
Volkswagen, Renault and other EU stalwarts prepare a slew of smaller, cheaper EVs to fight an influx of Chinese models.
9 Jun 2025 - 6:30AM
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BYD electric cars waiting to be loaded on a ship are stacked at the international container terminal of Taicang Port in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province in September 2024. Photo: AFP
VR and AR
Chinese AR glasses maker Rokid is going global with Alibaba partnership
Rokid will launch its AR Spatial glasses on AliExpress through the platform’s ‘BigSave’ programme, shaving off about US$100 off the US$650 eyewear.
7 Jun 2025 - 4:30PM
Robotics
Beijing academy unveils ‘RoboBrain’ AI model for China’s humanoids
The launch comes amid efforts to leverage rapidly advancing AI technology to improve the capability of robots.
7 Jun 2025 - 7:22AM
Semiconductors
Chinese chipmaker SMIC offloads stake in Ningbo unit to focus on core operations
SMIC’s asset sale reflects efforts by Chinese semiconductor firms to strengthen their operations amid tightened US tech restrictions.
6 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM
DeepSeek
DeepSeek is hiring interns to label medical data for AI use in hospitals
The move comes as Chinese hospitals embrace open-source AI models from DeepSeek to generate diagnoses and prescriptions.
6 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM
A visitor looks at a DeepSeek poster during the Global Developer Conference in Shanghai, February 22, 2025. Photo: VCG via Getty Images
Alibaba
Alibaba unveils new AI embedding models, a field it leads globally
The Chinese tech giant ranks top on Hugging Face’s benchmark for measuring the performance of text-embedding services.
6 Jun 2025 - 3:00PM
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Apple
Apple gives Tata India iPhone repair business as partnership expands
As the US tech giant looks beyond China for manufacturing, Tata has quickly emerged as a key supplier.
6 Jun 2025 - 9:51AM
Xiaomi
Xiaomi founder stays on as honorary chairman at Chinese software firm
Kingsoft Office is best known for its WPS Office software, a popular local alternative to Microsoft Office.
5 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM
Digital currencies
Hong Kong stablecoins poised to serve as a cross-border payment tool
‘Stablecoins have the potential to shorten the time for cross-border payment from days to minutes,’ Jingdong Coinlink’s Teddy Liu says.
5 Jun 2025 - 12:00PM
Regulations on stablecoins are expected to significantly expand the use of these tokens around the world. Photo: Shutterstock
RedNote
China’s RedNote sees valuation soar with backing from GSR Ventures
The social media platform has garnered traction among investors following the Chinese government’s pledge to support private firms.
5 Jun 2025 - 10:05AM
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ByteDance
Douyin users in Hong Kong swell to 40% of city’s population: report
Douyin’s high adoption rate in Hong Kong reflects a broader trend among China’s Big Tech firms to expand services beyond the mainland market.
5 Jun 2025 - 7:19AM
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Huawei
Huawei claims better AI training method than DeepSeek using own chips
Huawei’s progress in AI model architecture could prove significant, as the company seeks to reduce its reliance on US technologies.
4 Jun 2025 - 8:00PM
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Huawei researchers say they have improved on an AI training method used by DeepSeek. Photo: EPA-EFE
Ant Group
Ant International pursues ‘holy grail’ for fintech with agentic AI platform
New agentic AI platform aims to empower fintech companies to build AI-centric financial services with improved security and efficiency.
4 Jun 2025 - 5:00PM
Digital currencies
With Hong Kong’s stablecoin law, mainland firms are preparing for a market boom
The brokerage expects the new stablecoin law to lead to more real-world asset tokenisation projects from mainland firms in the city.
3 Jun 2025 - 10:50PM
Electric & new energy vehicles
Xiaomi’s EV unit to become profitable this year, CEO Lei Jun says
Smart EV unit recorded 4.3 billion yuan of gross profit last quarter, trailing operating expenses by 500 million yuan, according to its financial report.
3 Jun 2025 - 8:47PM
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E-commerce
Alibaba, JD.com sales surge during 618 festival, thanks to subsidy programme
Preliminary data shows Apple, Xiaomi, Huawei, Midea and Haier each rang up sales of over US$13.9 million on the two shopping platforms.
4 Jun 2025 - 11:03AM
Preliminary sales data from this year’s 618 shopping festival shows improved domestic retail spending. Photo: Shutterstock
Huawei
Huawei to launch premium Pura 80 smartphone series next week
The Chinese tech giant has remained silent amid speculation about an upgraded chip for the coming model.
3 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM
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Electric & new energy vehicles
EV price war, BYD woes prompt fears of China Evergrande-style crisis
Chairman of Great Wall Motor says EV price war, profitability problem could nudge industry into a liquidity crunch.
3 Jun 2025 - 4:25PM
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Semiconductors
TSMC says tariffs have some impact but AI demand robust
Chief executive C. C. Wei said the company has not seen any changes in customer behaviour due to tariff uncertainty.
3 Jun 2025 - 1:50PM
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Hong Kong backs start-ups at VivaTech show in push for European market
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ByteDance’s China head of content quality leaves amid stricter censorship
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