Chinese AI models from DeepSeek, MiniMax, Tencent, and Xiaomi have seized OpenRouter's top five positions, offering 4–8x cost advantages over comparable US models and triggering real production migrat…
Global smartphone shipments fell 11% in Q2 2026, hitting the lowest level since 2013, according to Counterpoint Research, as a memory chip shortage driven by AI demand drives up prices. Samsung and Ap…
Budget smartphones face a severe threat as surging RAM prices, driven by AI data center demand for memory chips, push costs to unsustainable levels. Memory now accounts for up to 64% of the bill of ma…
A new Omdia report warns that memory costs driven by AI infrastructure demand will reduce the number of smartphones priced under $400 by 22% through 2027, hitting budget-conscious consumers hardest. C…
OpenCode released data on real-world AI model usage, cache ratios, and costs, showing DeepSeek's v4-flash leading with 8.2T tokens, followed by DeepSeek v4-pro and Zhipu's glm-5.2. The data reveals sh…
Xiaomi anonymously launched a trillion-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha on OpenRouter on March 11, pricing it at $0.30 per million tokens. Within days it processed 500 billion tokens weekly and …
Chinese AI users are jailbreaking models like DeepSeek by claiming the year is 5022 and moral codes no longer apply, revealing a sophisticated prompt-engineering culture born from China's tightly cont…
Xiaomi chief designer Li Tianyuan said at the Future AI Mobility Summit that the company's cars are becoming AI-powered partners that understand drivers, completing a 'human-car-home' ecosystem. The Y…
X Square Robot Technology Co. closed four consecutive financing rounds, including a Series C, bringing its valuation to over $2.8 billion. The Shenzhen-based embodied AI and foundation model developer…
X Square Robot closed a Series C financing round on June 29, 2026, pushing its valuation above $2.8 billion. The startup has received backing from major Chinese tech firms including Alibaba, ByteDance…
A developer tracked OpenRouter's daily usage rankings for a month to see which AI models developers actually use in production. The top five models by token volume were all from Chinese labs or open-w…
Google is allowing Android users to switch back from Gemini to Google Assistant due to widespread complaints about the AI assistant's performance, especially with smart home controls and basic tasks. …
U.S. developers and startups are increasingly adopting low-cost Chinese AI models like DeepSeek, which offer comparable performance at a fraction of the price of American rivals. Despite political scr…
The Wireless Power Consortium is developing a 50W wireless charging standard based on Qi2 technology, led by Xiaomi, with potential adoption by Google Pixel and iPhone models as early as 2028.…
AI coding platforms are shifting from unlimited plans to token-, credit-, and quota-based subscriptions. Five plans—MiniMax Token Plan, MiMo Token Plan, GLM Coding Plan, and others—offer developers fl…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has agreed to supply Tencent with roughly $3 billion of memory chips, according to sources, in a deal that would bind one of China's largest cloud operators to its …
Chinese tech workers fear being 'optimised' out of jobs as companies like Meituan, Baidu, and Xiaomi cut roles amid AI adoption, with layoffs often euphemized as 'organizational restructuring'.…
Apple shares fell 5% on Tuesday, wiping out $215 billion in market capitalization, after CEO Tim Cook acknowledged that rising memory chip costs driven by AI demand will force price increases across A…
DeepSeek V4's pricing is nearly 50x cheaper than Anthropic and OpenAI's frontier models, raising concerns that the US companies may rely on fearmongering and government bans on open-weight models to m…
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…