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Artificial intelligence
‘We’re all in’: Alibaba’s Joe Tsai makes biggest AI push yet at VivaTech
Tsai lays out Alibaba’s AI playbook: invest across the stack, figure out the winners later.
19 Jun 2026 - 9:24PM
Artificial intelligence
Zhipu, DeepSeek push China’s trillion-parameter AI frontier amid US clampdown
19 Jun 2026 - 2:00PM
Artificial intelligence
US AI lead vulnerable to China amid ‘structural challenges’: scholar
18 Jun 2026 - 8:30PM
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Artificial intelligence
How DeepSeek’s landmark funding cements founder’s grip amid heated AI rivalry
Liang remains committed to pursuing artificial general intelligence (AGI) – a vision he reinforced to investors repeatedly last month.
18 Jun 2026 - 3:06PM
Liang’s decision to lead the round would ensure he still steers the direction of the firm after bringing in external investors. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Artificial intelligence
Alibaba Cloud expands in France amid Europe’s data sovereignty push
Opening of Paris hub is a response to increased demand, says the China tech giant as it looks to roll out agentic AI services across Europe.
17 Jun 2026 - 9:30PM
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia signs construction, smart-city deals with Chinese firms
Urban development deals with partners including Huawei and ByteDance underscore growing cooperation between Riyadh and Beijing.
17 Jun 2026 - 9:24PM
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China’s private sector
Smart-driving chips: the weapon of choice in China’s EV tech war
Carmakers strive for more control over computing hardware to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Horizon Robotics.
16 Jun 2026 - 7:00PM
Chinese electric-vehicle makers are designing their own smart-driving chips, the latest weapon of choice in the highly competitive sector. Photo: Weibo
Artificial intelligence
China’s Alipay gets AI-agent overhaul to challenge rivals Tencent and ByteDance
Fintech giant is seen leveraging its billion-user base to launch a conversational interface that coordinates 10,000 services, with safeguards.
16 Jun 2026 - 6:05PM
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Artificial intelligence
AI for less: price war in China deepens amid ‘intense’ competition
Narrowing capability gaps between models and falling costs of service set stage for price reductions to continue, analysts say.
16 Jun 2026 - 5:00PM
Robotics
Alibaba eyes physical world with its first suite of AI models for robots
Alibaba unveils Qwen robot models to push AI beyond chatbots, as embodied intelligence becomes the next frontier in global AI.
16 Jun 2026 - 2:16PM
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AI’s next frontier, world models, and why China is leading
AI models that understand the workings of the physical world and can simulate it will give the technology more human-like powers and drive embodied intelligence.
16 Jun 2026 - 11:32AM
United States
US judge dismisses Musk’s xAI trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI
A San Francisco judge said xAI failed to show that OpenAI induced former xAI engineer Xuechen Li to steal trade secrets.
16 Jun 2026 - 2:19AM
Semiconductors
How massive AI-driven demand for MLCCs triggered a supply bottleneck
Power-hungry data centres fuel demand for MLCCs, which are crucial components for modern innovations including smartphones and electric cars.
15 Jun 2026 - 5:29PM
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Artificial intelligence
China’s AI ‘hundred model’ war shifts to enterprise value, JPMorgan says
Major platforms are deploying paid subscriptions and coding tools, favouring practical utility over raw power to unlock significant commercial revenue.
14 Jun 2026 - 1:03PM
Huawei
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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Semiconductors
Can Huawei’s breakthrough help China’s chip design software firms catch US rivals?
Domestic chip design software vendors embrace Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law, but analysts caution that breaking US dominance is far from easy.
12 Jun 2026 - 7:00PM
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China's economic recovery
‘Not a crackdown’: China regulators eye neutral enforcement in shift from 2021
Increased scrutiny of tech giants and finance firms seen as end to the era of administrative restraint as officials move to curb monopolies and price wars.
12 Jun 2026 - 5:14PM
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Artificial intelligence
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 poses a challenge for China’s AI developers
Restrictions on access to the powerful model, ‘targeted at Chinese AI labs’, are sparking debate about safety, innovation and open research.
12 Jun 2026 - 4:59PM
The Claude Fable logo is displayed on the screen of a handheld smartphone in France on June 10, 2026. Photo: Getty Images
Artificial intelligence
Could the AI ‘self-evolution’ trend add fuel to the China-US tech war?
Anthropic says its Mythos model is edging closer to ‘recursive self-improvement’ as Chinese developers seek to close gap.
12 Jun 2026 - 9:23AM
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Artificial intelligence
China leads US in everyday AI apps but firms are overvalued, experts say
Chinese labs have unveiled new models that trail closely behind those from US peers such as OpenAI and Anthropic in capabilities.
11 Jun 2026 - 9:00PM
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Hong Kong stock market
How the AI trade is stirring dotcom-era jitters across global markets
Signs of excess are mounting in AI trade, with soaring IPOs and stretched valuations echoing run-ups to past market peaks, analysts say.
11 Jun 2026 - 7:00AM
Alibaba
Ant International powers new e-wallet in cash-heavy Mexico
The e-wallet may assist small businesses in the Latin American country to build credit history and secure financing, according to Clip.
10 Jun 2026 - 9:00PM
A consumer makes a payment using a mobile phone. Photo: Shutterstock
IPO
The world’s 5 largest-ever IPOs, before Elon Musk’s SpaceX listing
Ahead of SpaceX’s public listing on Friday, set to break records, here are some previous block-buster fundraisers.
10 Jun 2026 - 8:00PM
China’s private sector
Microsoft cuts hundreds of mainland cloud jobs, as China, US tighten data laws
The firm is laying off some employees at its cloud unit amid ongoing restrictions on cross-border data flows between the two countries.
9 Jun 2026 - 4:58PM
US-China tech war
China tech bets its chips on a US$577 million fund to counter US restrictions
Chip giants launch a 3.91 billion yuan private equity fund to boost the country’s ‘hard tech’ sectors amid tightening US export curbs.
9 Jun 2026 - 5:17PM
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