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A pivot towards the high-end boards required for AI servers is driving a capacity surge among PCB makers. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

China’s circuit-board makers push capex towards record to feed AI boom

Hundreds of millions of dollars invested in high-end plants as more than 20 PCB makers disclose aggressive expansion plans.

Robotics

‘Space race of our time’: can Europe compete with China, US in humanoid robots?

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Robotics

Mainland Chinese tech firms get more than just capital from Hong Kong

Artificial intelligence

Glass crashes slashed? Ant Group AI unit claims robot sensing advance

New perception model for embodied AI surpasses dominant rival from Meta Platforms at smaller scale with less training, firm claims.

A wheeled humanoid robot developed by Robbyant is unveiled at the company’s booth at the Inclusion Conference on the Bund on September 11, 2025. Photo: Wency Chen
A wheeled humanoid robot developed by Robbyant is unveiled at the company’s booth at the Inclusion Conference on the Bund on September 11, 2025. Photo: Wency Chen
Semiconductors

China’s chip equipment sector faces earnings scrutiny amid soaring stock prices

With first-half earnings season looming, the question for the semiconductor industry is whether results can justify stock rally.

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Autonomous vehicles

China’s lower tech costs poised to accelerate global robotaxi market: Morgan Stanley

The cost of parts per vehicle for Chinese-made robotaxis was expected to drop to between US$35,000 and US$40,000 in 2027.

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Semiconductors

China’s Biren seeks US$900m to fund GPU push and challenge Nvidia

The company says 60 per cent of the fresh capital will be for commercialisation and mass production of next generation general-purpose GPUs.

Biren Technology chairman and CEO Zhang Wen at the company’s listing ceremony in Hong Kong, January 2, 2026. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Biren Technology chairman and CEO Zhang Wen at the company’s listing ceremony in Hong Kong, January 2, 2026. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Semiconductors

China memory module giant’s first-half profit set to jump more than 600-fold

Longsys says net profit could reach up to 11 billion yuan, as strong demand and tight global wafer supply lift the downstream memory sector.

Artificial intelligence

Are we human? Why ByteDance and Alibaba are disabling AI agents in China

With Beijing’s rules on humanlike AI interaction services taking effect on July 15, Doubao and Qwen move to disable customised features.

Semiconductors

Chinese AI chip start-up bets on 3D stacking to bypass US controls

Dongfang Suanxin is headed by Wei Shaojun, who is also vice-president of the China Semiconductor Industry Association.

A new Chinese AI chip start-up is betting on 3D stacking to bypass US tech export controls. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Artificial intelligence

China’s ByteDance discovers new scaling law that could sustain AI boom

Researchers at the Chinese tech giant have been analysing how fast AI agents can improve by performing real-world tasks.

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ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind viral app TikTok, is also at the forefront of AI research in China. Photo: Reuters
ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind viral app TikTok, is also at the forefront of AI research in China. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

Can Alibaba’s AI transform superconducting materials discovery?

Damo Academy unveils an AI agent able to discover superconductors, which could revolutionise scientific materials research and innovation.

Robotics

Unitree IPO to test valuations as venture capital floods China robotics

The robot maker plans to raise 4.2 billion yuan by selling at least 40 million shares that implies a valuation of around 42 billion yuan.

Artificial intelligence

Zhipu AI’s new tool turns GLM-5.2 into agent amid Anthropic rivalry

Firm also known as Z.ai rolls out promotions to lure developers as US rival Anthropic responds to claim it covertly tracked Chinese users.

The company is gearing up to go head-to-head with leading US labs following the release of the GLM-5.2 model last month. Photo: Shutterstock Image
China’s private sector

Shanghai unveils quantum computing hub as China races for tech supremacy

The zone is set to provide up to 100 million yuan to fund research and development of the technology.

The district of Xuhui in Shanghai. Photo: Shutterstock
The district of Xuhui in Shanghai. Photo: Shutterstock
E-commerce

Temu owner PDD embraces China’s ‘city of the future’ after regulatory debacle

Operator of big-name budget marketplaces Pinduoduo and Temu is buying an office and adding 5,000 jobs in the hyped-up Xiongan New Area.

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Artificial intelligence

Exclusive | China’s Kling AI nears US$3 billion round at US$18 billion valuation: sources

The Kuaishou Technology spin-off aims to start Hong Kong listing process within a year, as annual recurring revenue soars following latest AI video model release.

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Robotics

UBTech launches lifelike humanoid robots built for companionship in China

The unveiling of model U1, which has silicone skin and emotional AI, reflects tech firms’ drive to expand robotics beyond industrial use.

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The U1 humanoid robot. Compared with industrial robots, consumer models face stricter requirements for appearance, privacy protection and long-term human interaction. Photo: Caroline Wang
The U1 humanoid robot. Compared with industrial robots, consumer models face stricter requirements for appearance, privacy protection and long-term human interaction. Photo: Caroline Wang
Semiconductors

Beyond GPUs: AI-driven shortages hit chip materials and components

Makers of power semiconductors, including Germany’s Infineon, US-based Texas Instruments and China’s Yangjie Technology, have raised prices.

Artificial intelligence

Meituan claims China’s biggest AI model trained on local chips

LongCat-2.0 boasts 1.6 trillion parameters and a million-token context window, on par with DeepSeek’s latest flagship model.

E-commerce

China’s cooling, e-commerce giants see sales surge as Europe heat sizzles

Alibaba notes surge in retail and business-to-business orders, Midea reports sharp revenue rise, and Gree sales get bump in major European markets.

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On AliExpress, Alibaba’s international retail site, this month’s debut of air conditioners in Germany saw local warehouse inventory for a Midea model completely wiped out by Thursday. Photo: Shutterstock
ByteDance

Exclusive | ByteDance targets early next year for next-generation CPU: sources

To accelerate development and help secure foundry capacity, ByteDance is collaborating with US chipmaker Qualcomm.

ByteDance is seeking wider deployment of its self-developed hardware across its own AI infrastructure. Photo: NurPhoto via Getty Images
ByteDance is seeking wider deployment of its self-developed hardware across its own AI infrastructure. Photo: NurPhoto via Getty Images
Artificial intelligence

Chinese AI model’s bug-hunting prowess narrows gap to US

Zhipu AI model matches Anthropic’s Mythos on certain cybersecurity tasks, researchers say, after rating highly for its coding.

DJI

China’s DJI, Insta360 blur out GoPro as smart camera demand soars

Insta360 posted the strongest growth among major vendors with a 66 per cent year-on-year surge to 900,000 units in the first quarter.

Artificial intelligence

Meta’s new AI research chief says agents are next big real-world milestone

UC Berkeley’s RDI centre earlier this month introduced Agents’ Last Exam, a new benchmark that tests how well AI agents perform.

Meta Platforms’ new AI research vice president Dawn Song at Summer Davos in Dalian, China on June 23 Photo: Vincent Chow
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