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Li Auto’s glasses are also among the lightest on the market, weighing 46 grams including the lens. Photo: Handout

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Chinese EV maker Li Auto unveils industry’s cheapest AI glasses at US$282

Despite its lightweight build, Livis promises robust performance with an impressive battery life of 18.8 hours under normal usage.

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Huawei’s founder makes subtle dig at lofty pursuits in AI by the US

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China’s Xiaomi says returns from AI investments ‘far exceed expectations’

5 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM

Big Tech

Moore Threads aspires to become ‘leading global player’ in AI chips after IPO

Unlike Huawei, Moore Threads’ GPUs, along with its own MUSA platform, are compatible with Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem.

5 Dec 2025 - 5:00PM

Zhang Jianzhong, CEO of Moore Threads, speaks at a company product launch in Beijing, December 19, 2023. Photo: Handout

Business

CSRC vows deeper reforms to open China’s capital market and boost tech listings

CSRC chairman Wu Qing outlines ‘deep transformation’ of capital market to attract long-term investors who ‘can stay and can develop well’.

5 Dec 2025 - 5:01PM

Tech Trends

Bill Gates’ daughter lands US$30 million for star-backed AI firm

The capital raise will value the start-up at US$180 million and comes just months after Phia completed its first US$8 million funding round.

5 Dec 2025 - 11:15AM

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Big Tech

Meta plans budget cuts as high as 30% to its metaverse efforts

Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision has not taken off despite his conviction that people will one day work and play in virtual worlds.

5 Dec 2025 - 10:19AM

A visitor tries a Meta Quest 3 virtual reality headset. Photo: AP

Tech

End of an era: Japan’s Canon shuts China printer plant as local rivals rise

Closure marks a turning point, where Chinese brands have not only caught up with foreign rivals but have also begun to dominate home market.

5 Dec 2025 - 8:00AM

Big Tech

Can China fund its AI push? Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt casts doubt

Capital from the government and Big Tech firms is set to make up for any lack of market-driven capital, analysts say.

4 Dec 2025 - 9:00PMvideocam

Big Tech

China’s top AI chip firms set for bumper IPOs as Nvidia kept out of market

Shanghai-based MetaX set its IPO pricing at 104.66 yuan, according to a company filing on Wednesday.

5 Dec 2025 - 11:59AM

The Moore Threads MCCX D800 AI server is displayed at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, July 5, 2024. Photo: SCMP

Policy

HashKey’s IPO seeks US$300 million under shadow of Beijing’s regulatory scrutiny

HashKey is likely to debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange within the next two to three months ‘if it receives adequate investor interest’.

4 Dec 2025 - 2:00PM

HashKey on Monday cleared its Hong Kong listing hearing after a confidential filing earlier this year. Photo: Handout

Big Tech

How Huawei could use a 2022 patent to make 2-nm-class chips without key tool

The proposed solution offers a technical pathway to support a 2-nm process using older DUV technology.

4 Dec 2025 - 12:00PM

Tech

Guangdong touts Huawei chips and HarmonyOS to outrun the DeepSeek eclipse

China’s richest province highlights Huawei’s Ascend 910C chips and HarmonyOS to prove it still sits at the heart of Chinese innovation.

4 Dec 2025 - 8:00AM

Big Tech

TikTok to invest more than US$37 billion in Brazil data centre

China is Brazil’s top trading partner and is seeking to expand economic and political ties across the region amid tensions with the US.

4 Dec 2025 - 10:45AM

TikTok’s offices in Culver City, California. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/TNS

Blockchain

Crypto giant Binance appoints co-founder He Yi as co-CEO

He, who has children together with founder Zhao Changpeng, will share the title with Richard Teng.

4 Dec 2025 - 9:44AM

Binance co-founder and co-CEO He Yi speaks at the Hong Kong Web3 Festival in April. Photo: Matt Haldane

United States & Canada

Nvidia CEO meets Trump, says he’s not sure if China would accept H200 chips

He says he and the US president discussed export controls before he met lawmakers on the Senate Banking Committee.

4 Dec 2025 - 6:26AMvideocam

Tech Trends

Ex-Apple engineer unveils chip to rival Vision Pro for XR headsets, AI glasses

The Jizhi G-X100 features a photon-to-photon latency of just 9 milliseconds, faster than 12 ms for Apple’s Vision Pro.

3 Dec 2025 - 9:00PM

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Tech War

How Nexperia saga exposes Europe’s waning influence in US-China chip war

The dispute around the Dutch chipmaker shows the erosion of Europe’s geopolitical neutrality in the face of escalating US-China rivalry.

15 Nov 2025 - 11:00AM

Nexperia is caught in a geopolitical tussle between the Netherlands and China. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

Tech War

China’s lesson for the US: it takes more than chips to win the AI race

The AI war is increasingly waged among ‘hyperscalers’ – companies with full-stack capabilities across software, hardware and applications.

11 Oct 2025 - 12:05PMvideocam

Tech War

How Huawei and DeepSeek are tending the garden of China’s AI aspirations

Amid growing AI rivalry with the US, the two companies are leading China’s drive to shake off the nation’s dependence on Nvidia processors.

27 Sep 2025 - 11:28AM

Big Tech

Immediate gratification: instant commerce transforms China’s retail market

Instant commerce has developed over a short period of time, as providers expanded their on-demand delivery coverage beyond food.

13 Sep 2025 - 10:36AM

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Opinion | Age of AI holds both promise and peril

Andrew Sheng

5 Dec 2025 - 8:30PM

Opinion | Why the real AI race is within China and not across the Pacific

Jeffrey Wu

3 Dec 2025 - 5:30AM

Opinion | The bright side to US-China decoupling and global self-reliance drives

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21 Nov 2025 - 9:15PM

Opinion | Will AI kill the middle class?

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20 Nov 2025 - 9:30AM

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Alex Lo

7 Nov 2025 - 4:30PM

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Damien Green

2 Nov 2025 - 5:30AM

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Chinese firm unveils new lightweight AI glasses

New AI glasses

China’s ‘Goddess of Wealth’ jailed for over 11 years by UK court

China cryptoqueen jailed for more than 11 years by UK court over US$6.4 billion bitcoin fraud

Third consecutive championship for South Korea’s T1

South Korea’s T1 clinches third consecutive League of Legends World Championship esports win

Meet the spider robot that 3D prints homes

3D-printing robot

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