Researchers from Peking University developed ECG-R1, a multimodal vision-language model trained with reinforcement learning to differentiate ischemic from nonischemic T-wave inversion on ECGs. The mod…
A group of six companies specializing in tracking sensitive technology shipments is backing the Chip Security Act, a bill that would require stronger tracking mechanisms for advanced AI chips to preve…
ByteDance is Microsoft's largest AI customer, spending over $1 billion annually on OpenAI models via Azure, even as U.S. regulators tighten rules on Chinese AI access. Microsoft's AI revenue in China …
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek reportedly required prospective investors to agree not to poach its staff or encourage them to start rival companies, a condition raised during a virtual meeting in May, accord…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is raising $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, instructing investors not to poach its employees as it issues equity to retain its 150-person team. The round v…
ByteDance's Doubao, China's most popular AI chatbot with 345 million monthly active users, is introducing subscription plans from 688 to 5,088 yuan annually, sparking user backlash and debate over mon…
Global investors are increasingly splitting Chinese tech stocks into AI winners and losers, with a pair trade strategy going long on Alibaba and short on Meituan returning around 130% year-to-date. Th…
A research team from CUHK Shenzhen and Tencent's Hunyuan released GameCraft-Bench, a benchmark testing AI coding agents on building complete, playable games in the Godot engine. The top agent, Claude …
Researchers from Tencent, Tsinghua University, and HKUST developed FlashMemory-DeepSeek-V4, which uses Lookahead Sparse Attention to reduce memory consumption in large language models by predicting an…
Four days after Washington cut foreign access to Anthropic's top models, Cohere reports a surge in government inquiries, DeepSeek closed a record $7.4 billion funding round, and Chinese AI labs slashe…
Chinese stocks in Hong Kong face record outflows as investors rotate into mainland AI hardware and semiconductor companies. In the week ending June 3, 2026, mainland-listed ETFs tracking Hong Kong equ…
A developer argues that AI coding tools like Cursor accidentally create addictive gamification loops, citing a METR study showing developers refused to work without AI even when paid $150/hour, despit…
The U.S. government's order for Anthropic to block non-U.S. access to its Fable and Mythos models is boosting adoption of open-source alternatives, especially from Chinese AI labs like DeepSeek and Kn…
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…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek closed its first outside funding round at roughly $7bn, valuing the company between $52bn and $59bn. Founder Liang Wenfeng contributed 20 billion yuan of his own money to maint…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek completed a funding round of more than $7 billion, pushing its valuation above $50 billion, with investors including Tencent and Contemporary Amperex Technology. The round …
Microsoft's Candy Crush Saga continues to generate $1 billion in annual revenue with over 150 million monthly active users, 14 years after its launch. The game's success underscores the enduring appea…
Tencent-backed AI chip startup Enflame won approval for a 6 billion yuan ($888m) IPO on Shanghai's STAR board, becoming the last of China's 'four AI chip dragons' to go public. The company, which reli…
Patsnap, an AI-powered intellectual property analytics firm backed by SoftBank, Tencent, and Sequoia Capital, has filed confidentially for a dual IPO in Hong Kong and Singapore that could raise up to …
Shanghai Enflame Technology Co., a Tencent-backed AI chip maker, received IPO approval on China's STAR Market to raise approximately $830 million for next-generation semiconductor development, despite…