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A Meituan food delivery courier in Beijing. Photo: Bloomberg

Meituan says its riders earn more than the average Beijinger

A new report by the company portrays gig employment as an alternative for people in between full-time jobs.

A new report by the company portrays gig employment as an alternative for people in between full-time jobs

Xiaomi, Honor look ready to push tri-fold handsets, following Huawei’s lead

Trump likelier than Harris to threaten China with tariffs: analysts

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EU and China trade negotiators fail to strike deal on electric vehicle imports

While both sides commit to further talks, European Commission plans to impose duties on Chinese EV imports to counter Beijing car subsidies.

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An electric vehicle by the Chinese car maker Geely at a trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany last week. EU-China talks on EV pricing reached an impasse Thursday in Brussels. Photo: Xinhua

Alibaba CEO eyes greater AI research and development, open sources 100 new LLMs

Alibaba Cloud on Thursday also launched a new text-to-video model, as CEO Eddie Wu reveals increased pace of AI development at Apsara event.

China eyes sci-tech venture capital to boost industrial upgrade, economic growth

Premier Li Qiang said on Wednesday the development of venture capital is critical to sci-tech innovation, industrial upgrading and the growth of the economy.

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ByteDance denies reported plan to make self-designed chips

The Chinese company rejected reports that it aims to engage the world’s largest chip foundry TSMC to mass-produce advanced semiconductors.

ByteDance says reports that it plans hire TSMC to produce self-designed chips are untrue. Photo: Shutterstock Images

Huawei’s Mate XT tri-fold handset sparks frenzy, leading scalpers to hike prices

Scalpers at electronics marketplace Huaqiangbei aim to resell the Mate XT’s base model for up to US$9,866, above Huawei’s US$2,800 price tag.

China quickly outpacing US in preparing for next war, Congress hears

Pentagon’s red tape and its slowness to embrace new technologies leave allies like Britain, Australia, Japan and South Korea in the lurch.

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US study finds China’s tech innovation ‘much stronger’ than understood

Performing best in nuclear power, EVs and batteries, mainland companies will ‘likely equal or surpass Western firms within a decade or so’.

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People visit a booth for Chinese battery manufacturing giant CATL at Automechanika, a leading trade fair for cars, in Frankfurt, Germany, on September 11. Photo: Xinhua

Alibaba Cloud to kick off annual Apsara tech event with focus on AI

Alibaba’s cloud unit will kick off its annual tech event this week, bringing together large language model start-ups to discuss the future of artificial general intelligence.

The logo of Alibaba is illuminated outside its office building in Beijing, China, August 9, 2021. Photo: Reuters

Meituan’s delivery workers earn US$11 billion in 2023, CEO says

CEO Wang Xing’s internal announcement reflects Meituan’s efforts to address mainland policymakers’ concerns over the welfare of gig workers.

South Korea rips cameras out of military bases over Chinese surveillance fears

Korean intelligence agencies discovered the Chinese origins of more than 1,300 cameras during a routine inspection, forcing their removal.

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China’s Lenovo builds AI servers in India amid supply chain shift

While India’s tech manufacturing sector is still small compared with China, it now makes increasingly sophisticated products such as iPhones.

Lenovo has started making AI servers in Pondicherry, India. Photo: Shutterstock

Hong Kong sees biggest uptick in cryptocurrency activity in East Asia: report

The city rose to 30th place, up from the No 47 spot last year, in this year’s Global Cryptocurrency Adoption Index rankings by Chainalysis.

Hong Kong saw an 85.6 per cent year-on-year surge in cryptocurrency transaction value, the largest growth seen in East Asia, according to a report by research firm Chainalysis. Photo: Shutterstock

China trade tased from all sides, backing Beijing into economic bind: analysts

‘The risk of intensifying trade wars is very real’.

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How Chinese expertise helped to build US aerospace programmes

Throughout America’s ambition to lead the world in space exploration, engineers born in China have played major roles.

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Why China is sending southern officials north to rusting economic front lines

More than a dozen senior cadres from the central government and powerhouse provinces have taken up new northern posts this year alone.

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A series of central government and southern officials have been given the job of helping revitalise the country’s former heavy industry heartland. Photo: Xinhua

Apple’s new iPhone 16 already selling at a discount in China

E-commerce platforms are offering price cuts of up to 11% on Apple’s latest smartphones, as Huawei steals the market buzz.

China, Thailand aiming to create ‘ecosystem using digital technologies’

Digital Economy Promotion Agency of Thailand collaborating with Shenzhen and Hangzhou, as well as Guangxi and Yunnan provinces.

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Explainer | From Facebook intern to TikTok CEO: a closer look at Singapore’s Shou Zi Chew

TikTok’s 41-year-old Singaporean CEO is facing an uphill battle to keep the platform alive in the US, while also maintaining a public profile.

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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew prepares to testify before the US Congress in March last year. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

US charges employee of Chinese aerospace giant with hacking Nasa, US military

Song Wu, a Chinese national, is charged in Atlanta, Georgia with 14 counts of wire fraud and 14 counts of aggravated identity theft.

Chinese national Song Wu allegedly tried to hack Nasa, according to an indictment announced in Atlanta. Photo: Reuters

China cracks down on academic misconduct as part of push to beat US in tech war

By naming and shaming Chinese researchers for misconduct, China’s science ministry is doubling down on its push towards tech prowess.

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Challenge to law forcing TikTok’s sale or US ban heard in federal court

ByteDance and several TikTok users contend the law violates their First Amendment rights; the government says the app’s Chinese ownership is a national security risk.

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Chinese AI start-up hails ‘important improvement’ in OpenAI’s newest model

LLM developers have run out of organic data to train models, so they are turning to reinforcement learning to generate more data.

The OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration photo taken May 20, 2024. Photo: Reuters

China’s low-altitude economy adds ‘new track’ with home-grown blimp delivery

China’s first home-grown ‘civil manned airship’ blimp has been delivered to a client in the southern Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

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China’s first home-grown AS700 civil manned airship during a demonstration flight in Yangshuo county. Photo: Xinhua

US chokehold on China’s AI progress ‘unlikely to succeed’: report

China’s robust academic advancement and state-backed funding have made the nation a major challenger to the US in AI, according to ITIF.

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Global impact | Can Black Myth: Wukong level up China’s soft power?

In this week’s issue of the Global Impact newsletter, we look at what the success of action role-playing game Black Myth: Wukong means for China’s gaming industry.

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Latest news, features and opinion on China’s technology industry, including AI, the US-China tech war, 5G, smartphone makers and apps, and issues surrounding China’s Great Firewall.
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9 September, 2024
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