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Anker, based in Changsha, Hunan, announced its recall on Friday, affecting over 712,000 units. Photo: Sohu.com

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Anker, Romoss recall over 1.2 million power banks amid fire risks

Anker has stopped selling the affected portable chargers, and is urging customers to return them for a refund or replacement.

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ByteDance founder plays critical role in firm’s AI push despite low profile

6 hours ago

Alibaba folds delivery app and travel agency into e-commerce group

23 Jun 2025 - 5:56PM

US-China tech war

How Huawei’s silicon strategy defies US sanctions, advances China’s AI ambitions

Huawei is expected to ship about 700,000 Ascend AI processors in 2025, according to Mizuho estimates.

23 Jun 2025 - 11:57AM

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Huawei opens HarmonyOS 6 to developers, prepares AI features for public launch

The tech giant did not give a public launch date for the latest version of the operating system, but said it will be more intelligent and open.

21 Jun 2025 - 7:17AM

TikTok ‘continues to work with’ Vance on deal as its US fate remains uncertain

TikTok said it was ‘grateful’ for Trump’s deadline extension to September 17, which would allow it to keep serving its 170 million US users.

20 Jun 2025 - 9:30PM

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Unitree Robotics now a unicorn with ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent funding

The Chinese humanoid and robot dog maker is valued at US$1.3 billion in its latest financing round.

20 Jun 2025 - 9:39PMvideocam

Crowds look at a Unitree robot during the Shanghai edition of the Mobile World Congress on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

Artificial intelligence

A sun-baked ‘Shenzhen’? SoftBank pitches TSMC on US$1 trillion AI hub in Arizona

Son envisions a version of China’s manufacturing hub of Shenzhen that would bring high-tech manufacturing to the US, sources told Bloomberg.

20 Jun 2025 - 4:29PM

Mobile payments

Ant Group pushes wider adoption of AI-enabled smart glasses for mobile payments

The first such payment outside mainland China was recently completed in Hong Kong, using the AlipayHK app and Meizu’s StarV smart glasses.

20 Jun 2025 - 7:08AM

China subsidies give Alibaba, JD.com sales lift during 618 shopping festival

The Chinese e-commerce giants again withheld total gross merchandise value figures, continuing a trend in recent years amid a maturing market.

19 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM

More than 453 brands each surpassed 100 million yuan in gross merchandise value on Taobao and Tmall during this year’s 618 shopping festival. Photo: Shutterstock

How Huawei’s AI chips outperform Nvidia’s in running DeepSeek’s R1 model

Performance of Huawei’s AI data centre architecture, CloudMatrix 384, illustrates the firm’s progress in overcoming US tech control measures.

19 Jun 2025 - 7:00PM

Huawei’s Ascend-based AI data centre architecture now rivals Nvidia’s own SGLang fast-serving framework. Photo: Shutterstock

Meituan keeps tight grip on 70% of food delivery market in China, report says

Citing internal data, Leiphone.com reported that Meituan’s daily food delivery orders reached 90 million this month.

19 Jun 2025 - 7:00PM

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba, Tencent-backed AI unicorn MiniMax eyes Hong Kong listing, report says

MiniMax, a unicorn valued at US$2.5 billion, was in the ‘early stage’ of preparations for the listing, according to news outlet The Paper.

19 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM

Alibaba Cloud expands in South Korea with second data centre

The company’s AI service clients in South Korea include Naver-backed messaging app Snow and AI solutions provider Univa.

19 Jun 2025 - 5:00PMvideocam

Alibaba Cloud’s offices in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The company is opening its second data centre in South Korea. Photo: Shutterstock Images

Artificial intelligence

Microsoft plans thousands of job cuts in July, targeting sales teams

The terminations would follow a previous round of lay-offs in May that hit 6,000 people, mostly product and engineering positions.

19 Jun 2025 - 12:35PM

Microsoft’s offices near Paris, France. Photo: Reuters

Mergers & Acquisitions

Billionaire Dai to reap US$237 million windfall from Qualcomm deal

Dai Weili holds 96.3 million shares of London-listed semiconductor firm Alphawave IP Group, making her its second-largest shareholder.

19 Jun 2025 - 12:13PM

Huawei defends role as AI, 5G infrastructure supplier at Shanghai MWC

Huawei deputy chairman says the telecoms industry is facing stagnant growth, while touting AI-driven solutions.

19 Jun 2025 - 9:00AM

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JD.com takes its Meituan rivalry to Saudi Arabia with express delivery service

JoyExpress is a business-to-consumer express delivery service that covers most of the 13 provinces in the Middle Eastern country.

19 Jun 2025 - 8:00AM

Workers sort packages for delivery at a JD.com warehouse in Beijing on November 11, 2024. Photo: AFP

Where is Trump’s ‘all-American’ phone made? Analysts point to Asia

China, the world’s largest smartphone market since 2011, is also the hub of global manufacturing, accounting for anything from 60 to 80 per cent of production.

19 Jun 2025 - 11:21AM

TikTok’s fate still in limbo as Trump extends deadline to sell its US operations

Analyst assessments reflect the uncertainty on whether Trump can – or will – keep extending the TikTok ban.

18 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM

JD.com founder bets on stablecoins to cut cross-border e-commerce payment costs

‘JD.com intends to secure stablecoin licences across key currency markets globally,’ founder and chairman Richard Liu says.

18 Jun 2025 - 7:30PM

E-commerce giant JD.com expects stablecoins to become the world’s next-generation payment system. Photo: Shutterstock

DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model matches Google, Anthropic in coding benchmark

The updated reasoning model, released in May, performed well against leading US models in the real-time WebDev Arena tests.

18 Jun 2025 - 6:03PM

A DeepSeek poster seen during the 2025 Global Developer Conference on February 22 in Shanghai. Photo: VCG via Getty Images

Alibaba recruits top Chinese AI scientist to lead speech-recognition push

Li, who holds a PhD in Computer and Information Sciences, has taken a pivotal role leading speech AI research at the e-commerce giant.

18 Jun 2025 - 5:03PM

Business of climate change

Could old coal mines help ease China’s solar-panel overcapacity?

The country leads the world in converting old coal mining sites into solar-power projects, according to Global Energy Monitor.

18 Jun 2025 - 8:36AM

US-China relations

Trump to extend TikTok deadline again, giving ByteDance 90 days to find buyer

The US president ‘does not want TikTok to go dark’, the White House says, as Trump prepares to put off a threatened ban for the third time.

18 Jun 2025 - 6:35AMvideocam

US President Donald Trump had signed an order in early April to keep TikTok running for another 75 days after a potential deal to sell the app to American owners was put on ice. Photo: dpa

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DeepSeek rival MiniMax says its first AI reasoning model halves compute of R1

17 Jun 2025 - 9:30PM

MiniMax-M1 consumes half the resources and has a context window 10 times the size of DeepSeek-R1, according to the start-up. Photo: Shutterstock

Tech Trends

How Tesla’s Robotaxi service compares with Baidu’s Apollo Go in China

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A driverless Tesla robotaxi moves through traffic on June 22 in Austin, Texas. Photo: AP

Tech Trends

How DeepSeek founder’s doubt led serial entrepreneur to embrace his gift of gab

23 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM

Tech Trends

Yum China rolls out AI agent, to help, not replace store managers

22 Jun 2025 - 3:38PM

Yum China’s CEO Joey Wat (centre) and other executives announce the AI tool at the company’s inaugural AI Day event in Shanghai. Photo: Handout

Big Tech

How Huawei’s silicon strategy defies US sanctions, advances China’s AI ambitions

23 Jun 2025 - 11:57AM

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