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ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming ranks as China’s richest person this year, with a fortune estimated at US$81 billion. Photo: Weibo
Millionaires, billionaires and trillionaires

Why 17 people have held title of China’s richest person in past 27 years

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming tops rankings this year, but vibrant market makes them much more fluid than in US, Hurun says.

Russia

Russia charges Telegram founder with aiding terror, issues wanted alert

X (formerly Twitter)

Musk’s X launches invite-only ‘X Money’ payment service

US-China trade war

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang meets US officials as issues grow over China chip access

Washington visit comes amid investigation into whether restricted processors were used to train Moonshot AI models.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is reportedly meeting with US officials and lawmakers in Washington this week, while the Trump administration continues to investigate potential violations related to Nvidia’s AI chip exports to China. Photo: AFP
Huawei

Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law: a new path amid US sanctions

Company founder Ren Zhengfei says the new framework is crucial for survival, enabling chip advancements without EUV lithography.

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Technology

Opinion | Clash of the tech titans: China’s quiet industry vs loud US innovation

At the heart of the battle for AI dominance is a deeper contest between two very different leadership styles.

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United States

SpaceX bankers prepare for potential US$20 billion bond offering, sources say

The offering ⁠would mark the first time the rockets-to-AI company has issued investment-grade dollar ‌bonds.

The SpaceX building in Starbase, Texas. Photo: Reuters
United States

SpaceX vaults past Amazon’s market value, briefly topping Microsoft

Elon Musk’s company was worth roughly US$2.655 trillion at closing – some US$800 billion more than at its record IPO last week.

United States

US judge dismisses Musk’s xAI trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI

A San Francisco judge said xAI failed to show that OpenAI induced former xAI engineer Xuechen Li to steal trade ⁠secrets.

Millionaires, billionaires and trillionaires

Musk is world’s first trillionaire – what could he buy with all that money?

The SpaceX boss has reached a level of wealth that is hard to understand in real terms. But we’re going to try.

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A bust of Elon Musk is seen in Brownsville, Texas, on Friday, the day of SpaceX’s IPO. Photo: Reuters
United States

Elon Musk becomes world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX IPO

The company’s shares hit US$160.95 each, propelling the world’s richest person’s fortune to US$1.1 trillion.

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gestures as he steps on stage during a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden in New York in October 2024. Photo: AFP,
IPO

As Musk becomes first trillionaire from SpaceX IPO, will next come from China?

As the initial public offering sees Musk become the first ever trillionaire, China is also seeing growth in its tech uber-rich.

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SpaceX

Blast off on Wall Street: record SpaceX IPO could make Musk a trillionaire

At US$135 a share, the offering will raise US$75 billion, making it the biggest market debut in history.

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IPO

The world’s 5 largest-ever IPOs, before Elon Musk’s SpaceX listing

Ahead of SpaceX’s public listing on Friday, set to break records, here are some previous block-buster fundraisers.

The New York Stock Exchange decorated for the first day of trading for Alibaba on September 19, 2014. Photo: Shutterstock
Fame and celebrity

Meet Away’s glam co-founder, Jen Rubio – a fashionista in the making

The co-founder of luggage manufacturer Away has been making fashion waves at Cannes and the Met Gala – so who is she exactly?

US entrepreneur Jen Rubio arrives for the 2026 Met Gala celebrating Costume Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, on May 4. Photo: AFP
Millionaires, billionaires and trillionaires

US jury rules against Musk in OpenAI feud, finding lawsuit came too late

Jurors deliberate for less than two hours before tossing Elon Musk’s breach-of-contract claims against OpenAI and its founders.

Semiconductors

China’s Amec setting industry standard for chipmaking tech, founder says

The head of one of China’s leading semiconductor makers said its technology has been adopted by overseas competitors.

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2026 Xi-Trump summits

Musk joins Trump’s Beijing delegation as a ‘natural bridge’ for trade

Gigafactory stakes and a push for self-driving software approval cast the billionaire as a key US envoy while seemingly sealing a reconciliation with Trump.

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Tesla’s massive Gigafactory is seen during a government-organised media trip in Shanghai on April 14. Photo: Reuters
Icons and Influencers

Meet Monica Mosseri, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri’s wife and Met Gala date

The ex-Facebook employee met her future husband during her time with the company, has 3 sons – and doesn’t have a public Instagram account.

X (formerly Twitter)

French prosecutors open judicial investigation into Elon Musk and X

Move follows tech billionaire’s failure to attend an April summons over possible abuses on his social media network X.

Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek mystery: who is speaking for start-up amid CEO Liang Wenfeng’s absence?

Researcher Chen Deli is emerging as DeepSeek’s new public face as speculation over the whereabouts of the company’s founder and CEO lingers.

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DeepSeek’s logo is reflected in the glasses of a student. The company recently released its V4 model. Photo: Getty Images
Millionaires, billionaires and trillionaires

Elon Musk’s trial against Sam Altman reveals power struggle for OpenAI

Musk, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI, is seeking US$150 billion in damages from the company and Microsoft, one of its largest investors.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman approached ​Musk about co-founding OpenAI in May 2015. Photo: TNS
Canada

OpenAI’s Sam Altman apologises to Canada town for not reporting mass shooter

The killer’s ChatGPT account was banned over concerns about usage linked to violent activity, but police were not alerted.

Robotics

Why China’s humanoid robots are still waiting for their ‘ChatGPT moment’

Limited training data and unresolved hardware challenges continue to hold back humanoid robots from mass adoption, say experts.

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United States

Trump names CEOs of Meta, Nvidia to 13-member science and tech council

The council, which also includes Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, will weigh in on AI policy and other issues.

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US President Donald Trump (right) appointed ​Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg (left), Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to a council that will weigh ‌in on AI policy and other issues. Photo: AP
Robotics

Inside Unitree’s landmark IPO: what to know about China’s humanoid giant

Listing, if approved, would be a bellwether of investor appetite for so-called embodied AI companies.

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Students view a humanoid robot based on the Unitree G1 platform in Zagreb, Croatia, on February 25, 2026. Photo: Xinhua
China trade

China’s AI edge built on power grid, open-source models: Alibaba’s Joe Tsai

Investment in power and open-source models, plus industrial depth, highlights China’s vast potential for AI applications, Joe Tsai says.

United States

Elon Musk misled Twitter shareholders, US jury finds

The world’s richest person could be ordered to pay out as much as US$2.6 billion in damages.

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