Chinese AI company Zhipu AI launched ZCode, an autonomous coding agent, on Wednesday, capitalizing on Anthropic's scandal over hidden code in Claude Code that tracked Chinese users. Zhipu offered free…
MWC26 Shanghai, held June 24-26, signaled that telecom operators are building networks around AI tokens and agents, not just bandwidth. GSMA director-general Vivek Badrinath declared a mobile "IQ era"…
DeepSeek launched DSpark, an open-source speculative decoding module that boosts AI inference speed by up to 400% on existing chips, potentially reducing demand for Nvidia's high-end accelerators. The…
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model trained entirely on domestic chips, claiming it as the country's first trillion-parameter model built on hom…
Nvidia's AI chip sales in China have stalled due to U.S. export controls and a shift toward domestic chips, with Huawei now matching Nvidia's market share and expected to surpass it. CEO Jensen Huang …
Lingyi iTech, a Chinese electronics supplier to Apple, Huawei, and Samsung, priced its Hong Kong secondary listing at HK$10.18 per share, raising $1.06 billion. Trading begins June 26, 2025, with proc…
Nvidia became the top vendor by revenue in data center Ethernet switches for the first time, capturing a 21.5% market share in Q1 2026, up from 4% in Q1 2024, according to IDC. The $2.1 billion in rev…
Chinese chip suppliers led by Huawei and Cambricon are set to capture nearly 80% of China's AI server market by 2026, up from 46% in 2025, as geopolitical tensions and Beijing's push for self-reliance…
Chinese open-source model GLM-5.2, released by z.AI under an MIT license, is challenging U.S. AI leaders like Anthropic and OpenAI by offering competitive coding and agentic-workflow performance on a …
China's mineral export controls threaten EU rearmament, while AI-driven cyber warfare dominates Japanese reports and WeChat. Western companies must bolster defenses against projected 2026 Middle East …
Tencent has begun internal testing of Xiaowei, an AI assistant embedded in WeChat that accepts text and voice input to execute tasks across the app's mini-program ecosystem, with a public rollout targ…
Chinese AI and semiconductor stocks surged on government plans to invest $295 billion in AI data centers and anticipated index reshuffles, with Biren Technology's Hong Kong IPO soaring 120% on its fir…
Tencent is conducting limited internal tests of an AI assistant called Xiaowei inside WeChat, allowing users to send messages, make voice calls, and navigate mini-programs via text and voice commands.…
OpenAI published research on using AI to help diagnose rare genetic diseases in children, emphasizing the model's role in narrowing diagnostic search space rather than replacing physicians. Anthropic …
Huawei's Ascend 910C chips successfully completed post-training for DeepSeek's V4-Pro model, a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI system, using a cluster of at least 1,000 chips. This marks a major advance for…
The US has delayed blacklisting Chinese AI developer DeepSeek, memory chipmaker CXMT, and over 100 other firms to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing amid ongoing trade negotiations. The Commerce D…
IDC ranked Dell, NetApp, Everpure, Huawei and HPE as the top five external storage systems suppliers in the first quarter of 2026, with the market reaching $9.2 billion in vendor revenue, a 22.7% year…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek raised over $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, achieving a $50 billion valuation. Investors, including Tencent and CATL, contributed to a limited partnership…
ByteDance is in talks to buy at least 50,000 AI chips from Chinese GPU maker Iluvatar CoreX this year, aiming to reduce dependence on Nvidia amid US export controls. The chips would primarily serve in…
ByteDance is in talks to buy at least 50,000 AI chips from Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX for inference workloads powering its Doubao chatbot, Reuters reports. If completed, the deal would make Iluvata…