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China's monthly car exports topped 1 million for the first time in June 2026, driven by a 27% rise in overall overseas shipments, while domestic sales slump as Beijing scales back subsidies, according…
China's monthly car exports topped 1 million for the first time in June 2026, driven by a 27% rise in overall overseas shipments, while domestic sales slump as Beijing scales back subsidies, according…
Axiom Biosciences, a San Diego-based clinical-stage biotech, plans a Hong Kong IPO in 2027 targeting at least $200 million, followed by a U.S. secondary listing in 2029, citing deep biotechnology capi…
Chinese AI unicorn Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi K3 model, is closing a fundraising round at a US$30 billion valuation and plans a subsequent round as early as August, according to a source. The …
The US and its allies must adopt a whole-of-supply-chain strategy to break China's dominance over rare earths and critical minerals essential for AI technology, US Undersecretary of State for Economic…
SenseTime CEO Xu Li said AI commercialization will shift from a 'token economy' to a 'task economy' as token prices inevitably drop, comparing the trend to telecoms data costs two decades ago. Speakin…
A humanoid robot was decapitated during a mixed martial arts cage fight in Shenzhen, China, but continued fighting and won the match. The fight was part of the Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL) e…
Alibaba's Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8, a 2.4 trillion-parameter AI model, on July 19th, claiming it trails only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 among frontier systems, but withheld technical details such a…
Changzhou, a city in eastern Jiangsu province, announced it is building China's first city-level clean-power token factory, expected to produce 60 trillion tokens annually to support the country's AI …
Smaller, family-run businesses in mainland China are adopting artificial intelligence more readily than large enterprises, according to industry leaders at the inaugural Nusa Dua Forum in Bali. Zhou Y…
Investors at the Nusa Dua Forum in Bali expressed optimism about the long-delayed Asean power grid, citing surging demand from AI and data centres as a key driver. The Association of Southeast Asian N…
BrainCo, a Chinese neurotechnology company, debuted its Brain-Controlled Robot AI Platform at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, claiming it is the world's first integrated brain-to-robot system. Th…
Chinese EV maker Xpeng expects to produce more than 1,000 humanoid robots a month by end of 2026 and plans global commercial deliveries of its Iron humanoid robot in 2027, CEO He Xiaopeng said. The co…
US undersecretary of state for economic affairs Jacob Helberg defended Washington's restrictions on foreign access to Anthropic's Fable and Mythos AI models, saying they were designed to safeguard cri…
The United States has tightened AI policies on China with new restrictions on chip exports and model weights rolled out in June 2026, according to the South China Morning Post, as Anthropic, the world…
Chinese regulators have granted Apple a licence to launch its Apple Intelligence AI service in China, with Alibaba and Baidu as technical partners. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) publish…
Boko Haram used US and Chinese AI chatbots, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and DeepSeek's chatbot, to assist in bomb construction, attack planning, and propaganda, according to a Camb…
Chinese developers are paying premium prices for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 via VPNs, despite it being blocked in mainland China, because the model's efficiency reduces total token usage and cost for complex ta…
China has eliminated or suspended 12,200 university degree programs between 2021 and 2025, replacing many with new programs in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies as part of a nati…
China's National Vulnerability Database ordered developers to remove Anthropic's Claude Code tool, citing a hidden tracking mechanism that sends user data to remote servers. Anthropic confirmed the co…
Alibaba shares surged up to 13.8% in Hong Kong on Wednesday after UBS and Jefferies projected the company's June-quarter revenue growth would accelerate to 9%, driven by strong AI demand and narrowing…