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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

Big Tech

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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US agency to extend ban on Chinese telecoms tech to cover legacy gear

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

Tech War

Top China chip toolmakers consolidate to build national champions, defy US curbs

Big Fund-invested Piotech plans to acquire Wuxi Shangji and diversify into wafer-bonding, leveraging a big revenue surge to capture the local tool market.

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China aims to boost its semiconductor self-sufficiency as Washington's export controls have tightened its access to advanced foreign chipmaking tools. Photo: Shutterstock
China aims to boost its semiconductor self-sufficiency as Washington's export controls have tightened its access to advanced foreign chipmaking tools. Photo: Shutterstock

Tech War

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.

Tech Trends

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.

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China Business

China’s first AI-powered cancer vaccine production line set to launch in Beijing

Likang Life Sciences says it has developed a personalised vaccine using advanced tech to identify tumour-specific mutations.

The project reflects a global shift in the pharmaceutical sector towards harnessing artificial intelligence. Photo: Shutterstock
The project reflects a global shift in the pharmaceutical sector towards harnessing artificial intelligence. Photo: Shutterstock

Tech Trends

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.

Business

Will China’s new tech bases in Hebei and Tianjin revive local housing demand?

The new headquarters may boost rentals, but local home sales growth is likely to be far milder than surges in previous years, analysts say.

Tech

Final insurance frontier: Hong Kong sees opening in mainland China’s space boom

Like maritime trade centuries ago, the space economy is built on high-risk, high-value journeys. Hong Kong wants to be its insurance hub.

The rapid expansion of China's commercial space industry is creating growing demand for specialised insurance products covering launches, satellites and other space-related risks, industry participants say. Photo: Weibo

Big Tech

Faster AI, lower costs: DSpark eases bottlenecks and chip strain, says DeepSeek

Start-up unveils speculative decoding framework that speeds up inference by up to 85 per cent amid China’s push to overcome US AI curbs.

DeepSeek says DSpark delivers faster results and lower costs, marking a breakthough in inference. Photo: Reuters
DeepSeek says DSpark delivers faster results and lower costs, marking a breakthough in inference. Photo: Reuters

Banking & Finance

How AI boom exposes investors to risk, while a downturn could see a fast crash

Bank for International Settlements says AI funding is funnelled through loosely regulated private credit channels, raising stability fears.

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Tech War

As AI pushes data centres to breaking point, some Chinese chipmakers bet on SiC

Basic Semiconductor is the latest firm in the space to move forward with an IPO.

Tech Trends

For China’s tech workers, AI ‘optimisation’ sounds like ‘unemployment’

China’s office workers are worrying whether their jobs can be done by artificial intelligence – and whether their companies will make the switch.

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Banking & Finance

Hong Kong vows stronger exchange with reforms, bond futures and gold push

Listing changes and new product launches are set to bolster Hong Kong’s role as a global financial hub, deputy finance chief says.

HKEX chairman Carlson Tong and Deputy Financial Secretary Michael Wong strike the gong to mark the bourse operator’s 26th anniversary. Photo: May Tse
HKEX chairman Carlson Tong and Deputy Financial Secretary Michael Wong strike the gong to mark the bourse operator’s 26th anniversary. Photo: May Tse

Policy

AI agents get ‘digital ID cards’ under China’s first connectivity standard

Country’s new AI agent framework aims to cut costs and enhance security to boost enterprise adoption.

Big Tech

Apple price hikes may hit iPhone next as memory, storage costs soar: analysts

Some Chinese consumers are anticipating potential price hikes for the upcoming iPhone series, and are reconsidering their upgrade plans.

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Big Tech

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.

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Illustration by Henry Wong
Illustration by Henry Wong

Tech War

A cloud above the clouds: US, China jockey for position in computing space race

China could be a leading player in the new technological battlefield, but the US has a substantial lead in essential tools such as reusable rockets.

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Tech

Prognosis positive: how AI could help China bridge the medical resources gap

Hospitals, medical professionals and patients stand to benefit as country pushes to integrate AI into healthcare sector.

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Big Tech

As DJI duels Insta360, China sharpens global hardware edge amid US scrutiny

Western competitors like GoPro face shrinking footprints as strategic shifts of Chinese firms disrupt the status quo while navigating FCC-led national security bans.

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Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
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Huawei and Cambricon tighten grip on China’s AI chip market as Nvidia slips

Chinese chipmakers led by Cambricon and Huawei are expected to significantly expand their share of the domestic AI server market as Beijing pushes for greater semiconductor self-reliance. Photo: Getty Images

Big Tech

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

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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

China Economy

China adds 20 Japanese entities to its export-control list

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A staff member organises the national flags of China, Japan and South Korea before the start of the 28th ASEAN Plus Three (APT) Summit during the 47th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Kuala Lumpur on October 27, 2025. (Photo by Vincent Thian / POOL / AFP)

China Business

China’s first AI-powered cancer vaccine production line set to launch in Beijing

The project reflects a global shift in the pharmaceutical sector towards harnessing artificial intelligence. Photo: Shutterstock

Tech Trends

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

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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Chinese robots show America they have ‘got talent’

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