IETF 126 set a new attendance record with 1,230 on-site and 672 remote participants, where consensus emerged that IPv6 and DNS will play increasingly important roles in the AI era. China Telecom propo…
China's three state-owned telecoms operators are making billable AI tokens a key growth metric as AI adoption accelerates. China Telecom reported a 95% surge in intelligent computing revenue in the fi…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. expects higher gross margins and profitability by replacing purchased chips with its own T-Head semiconductors, which have reached cumulative shipments of 470,000 AI chips. …
China Mobile's first-half net income fell 6% year-over-year to RMB79 billion ($11.7 billion) as revenue dropped 1.1% to RMB538 billion ($79.8 billion), with the company citing a VAT hike on mobile dat…
Guangdong province signed a strategic cooperation framework with Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd. on August 13 to advance AI, semiconductors, and computing infrastructure, with provincial leaders urging deep…
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based AI startup, is building its first known data center in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, according to job postings dated April 2, 2026, as it prepares to launch its trillion-parame…
China signed 29 nations into the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) on July 16, headquartered in Shanghai, as a direct counter to US export restrictions on AI technology. Z…
China Telecom's Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI) and Harbin Institute of Technology have developed ShotPlan, a cinematic video generation method built on Wan2.1-T2V-14B that uses learnabl…
Z.AI, the Chinese AI lab formerly known as Zhipu, has partially started operating a 1-gigawatt data centre built entirely with Chinese-made chips, marking the first large-scale proof that domestic sil…
China Telecom's Ningxia unit launched bidding on a five-year framework for 'Token generation capacity services' with an estimated ceiling of Rmb 17.4bn, while Digital China submitted a Rmb 717m bid fo…
China has committed approximately $295 billion (2 trillion yuan) over five years to build a national AI computing network, mandating that 80% of core technology come from domestic suppliers. State-own…
China plans to invest approximately $295 billion over the next five years to build a nationwide network of AI-focused data centers, with a target completion date of 2028. The initiative, led by the Na…
China's three largest telecom operators — China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom — launched commercial AI token packages this past week, allowing users to track and bill AI usage through mobile…