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Alibaba
Jack Ma replies to Alibaba employee’s letter lamenting ‘company disease’
The Alibaba founder highlights ‘changes’ in the company’s development as it embarks on an ambitious AI strategy.
3 hours ago
Alibaba
Joe Tsai says open-source AI will boost Alibaba’s cloud business
11 Jun 2025 - 11:46PM
Semiconductors
Huawei founder sheds light on China’s strategy to overcome US curbs
11 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM
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DJI
DJI launches US$10,000 enterprise drone that can avoid power lines at night
The new Matrice 400 offers a 59-minute flight time, a payload capacity of up to 6kg and a powerful obstacle-sensing system.
11 Jun 2025 - 7:00PM
DJI’s Matrice 400 enterprise drone flies near a high-voltage transmission tower. Photo: Handout
Artificial intelligence
iFlytek says using local chips in AI models extends development time by 3 months
Liu’s comments show how some Chinese tech companies are determined to improve their AI capabilities without access to Nvidia chips.
11 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM
Artificial intelligence
OpenAI taps Google in unprecedented cloud deal despite AI rivalry, sources say
The deal underscores how massive computing demands to train and deploy AI models are reshaping the competitive dynamics in the sector.
11 Jun 2025 - 10:38AM
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Tencent
Tencent Music to buy Ximalaya, an audio app used by 300 million users
Ximalaya, a platform for podcasts, audiobooks and music, could enhance Tencent Music’s competitiveness in the audio content market.
10 Jun 2025 - 9:26PM
Ximalaya is a popular Chinese online audio platform. Photo: Handout
Apple
Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers
The hashtag ‘iOS26 Ugly’ was microblogging app Weibo’s top-trending topic on Tuesday, as thousands of netizens expressed their discontent.
10 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM
Business of climate change
China’s solar panel makers seek antidote to market ills as glut, price war, tariffs bite
Market players should aim for technological innovation, enabling higher profit margins and sustainable growth, GCL founder Zhu says.
10 Jun 2025 - 6:35PM
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TikTok
TikTok adds 500 UK jobs in expansion as US fate remains uncertain
A new 135,000 sq ft office is set to open in early 2026, as the ByteDance subsidiary expands in Europe amid looming US sell-or-ban deadline.
10 Jun 2025 - 4:59PM
Apple
Apple’s AI takes back seat to design, iPad revamp at WWDC event
The new interface, called Liquid Glass, was introduced Monday at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference.
10 Jun 2025 - 12:03PM
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9, 2025. Photo: AFP
Huawei
Huawei founder Ren says state-of-the-art chip performance can be achieved
Ren Zhengfei says his firm is just one of many Chinese chipmakers, adding that the US has ‘exaggerated Huawei’s achievements’.
10 Jun 2025 - 2:49PM
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Start-ups
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
Li Tong, who led Douyin’s content quality team, is no longer listed in ByteDance’s internal employee system, according to sources.
9 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM
Semiconductors
Qualcomm chips away at smartphone reliance with US$2.4 billion Alphawave AI bet
As Qualcomm looks to lessen its reliance on the smartphone market, Alphawave would provide it with technology used in data centres.
9 Jun 2025 - 5:44PM
Qualcomm is betting on data centres and AI with its acquisition of Alphawave, which makes high-speed semiconductor and connectivity technology. Photo: Reuters
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
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
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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
The Meta logo is seen at a trade fair in Hannover Messe, Germany, on April 22, 2024. Photo: Reuters
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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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
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp is mainland China’s top contract chipmaker. Photo: Shutterstock
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
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
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