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China Business

CATL executive warns of risks from EV price cuts, calls on Beijing to intervene

CATL chief manufacturing officer Ni Jun says EV discount war will not end if Beijing authorities remain on the sidelines.

China’s AI capital spending set to reach up to US$98 billion in 2025: BofA

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JD.com hires full-time food delivery riders to challenge Meituan, Alibaba

Tech Trends

Anthropic wins ruling on use of copyrighted books to train AI

A US judge rules that training AI on copyrighted books is fair use, but the downloading of pirated books is not.

Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books for AI training is fair use, a US judge has ruled. Photo: AP
Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books for AI training is fair use, a US judge has ruled. Photo: AP

China Economy

How China’s manufacturing hub spins a new yarn to become a tech powerhouse

Start-ups rise fast where traditional manufacturing once ruled – powering Beijing’s innovation and self-reliance push.

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Tech Trends

iFlytek unveils medical AI, smart classroom tech in Hong Kong amid global push

Hong Kong would be a launch pad for the company’s global expansion in the future, founder and chairman Liu Qingfeng said on Tuesday.

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Big Tech

Apple joins China’s subsidy scheme to lift sales amid heated local competition

Consumers in Beijing and Shanghai can avail themselves of discounts of up to US$278 on select models of Apple devices, including the iPhone.

Apple has started offering discounts under the government subsidy scheme through its own domestic retail channels. Photo: Shutterstock
Apple has started offering discounts under the government subsidy scheme through its own domestic retail channels. Photo: Shutterstock

Tech War

Huawei, SMIC struggle to advance chips to 5-nm level, MateBook shows: report

Huawei’s newly released MateBook Fold laptop runs on another 7-nm Kirin chip made by SMIC, as the Mate 60 Pro smartphone did two years ago.

Big Tech

Alibaba Cloud to bring AI capabilities to global data centres this year

The company operates more than two dozen data centres worldwide, including two in the US and one in London.

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Tech Trends

Hong Kong family office VMS Group makes first foray into cryptocurrency

With about US$4 billion in assets under management, VMS plans to allocate up to US$10 million to strategies run by hedge fund Re7 Capital.

Wealth managers are moving to accommodate growing cryptocurrency adoption among their clients in Hong Kong. Photo: Shutterstock

Big Tech

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.

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

Tech Trends

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

Tesla is finally entering the robotaxi business, but Baidu has been testing its service for years.

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Cryptocurrency

Beijing could use Hong Kong to test yuan-linked stablecoins: Morgan Stanley

Beijing’s digital currency ambitions are unlikely to unlock the full potential of the yuan’s internationalisation, analysts say.

Big Tech

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

Zhang’s involvement in AI research at ByteDance was similar to the role Sergey Brin played at Google, according to local media.

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming poses for a photo in Palo Alto, California, on March 4, 2020. Photo: Reuters

Tech Trends

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

Founder of defunct smartphone brand Smartisan said DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng told him he was among the best in China at ‘earning a living by talking’.

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has kept a relatively low profile since his start-up captured global attention this year. Photo: Weibo
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has kept a relatively low profile since his start-up captured global attention this year. Photo: Weibo

Blockchain

Bitcoin drops below US$100,000 after US strikes Iran nuclear sites

Bitcoin sank as much as 3.8 per cent and Ether as much as 10 per cent in the aftermath of the attacks.

Big Tech

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

CEO Eddie Wu said the restructuring ‘marks a strategic upgrade from an e-commerce platform to a comprehensive consumer platform’.

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Big Tech

Tech war takes a new turn as Huawei pushes 5G smartphones with mystery chip

Huawei’s return to the 5G smartphone market and the controversy over its advanced, made-in-China processor reflect the lengths taken by the company to build up its operations, following years of struggles on account of US trade sanctions.

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Illustration: Davies Christian Surya
Illustration: Davies Christian Surya

Big Tech

ChatGPT sparks investment frenzy and soul searching in China

While China had declared AI strategically important as early as 2018, ChatGPT has shattered illusions about the country’s technological prowess.

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Policy

China’s e-CNY blues: major test bed shows sluggish adoption

More than three years after China’s central bank started digital currency trials, adoption in one of the initial test beds, Suzhou, remains lethargic.

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Tech

Can Huawei’s 5G-powered Tianjin Port redefine its enterprise business?

Tianjin Port is the latest technological showpiece of Huawei Technologies, as the world’s largest provider of phone network equipment reinvents itself after nearly four years of crushing US sanctions.

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

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 War

China’s AI capital spending set to reach up to US$98 billion in 2025: BofA

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China’s increased capital spending on artificial intelligence reflects the heightened enthusiasm for the technology on the mainland. Photo: Shutterstock

China Economy

China’s plug-in hybrid exports spike in wake of EU tariff exemption

China’s exports of electric vehicles to Europe have surged in recent years, leading the European Union to impose tariffs on Chinese-made EVs in November. Photo: Reuters

China EVs

Xiaomi speeds up YU7 launch, Tesla’s Robotaxi vs Baidu’s Apollo Go: 7 EV reads

Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun introduces the Chinese smartphone maker’s new electric SUV YU7 at a launch event in Beijing, China May 22, 2025. REUTERS/Florence Lo

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