1 June 2025

TikTok parent ByteDance has upgraded its Doubao chatbot, one of China’s most popular consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) apps, with the recent launch of a real-time video call function that turns the app into an interactive digital assistant. The function allows users to engage in an interactive video conversation with the AI technology behind the chatbot, […]

Ant International predicts that its artificial intelligence (AI) model for foreign exchange (FX) could have as large an impact on financial services as OpenAI’s large language model (LLM) GPT has had in the broader business world. The Time-Series Transformer (TST) AI FX Model developed by the Singapore-based fintech company focuses on numerical data prediction rather

iPhone shipments in China are expected to drop further this year, partly because of rising competition from domestic brands, according to market research firm IDC, as Apple faces growing headwinds in the world’s largest smartphone market. Apple’s smartphone shipments in China were forecast to fall 1.9 per cent in 2025 owing to ongoing competition from

Tesla’s brand has lost its lustre in major markets around the world due to the political entanglements of CEO Elon Musk, creating opportunities for Chinese rivals like BYD and Xiaomi to fill the void, according to a UBS survey. The number of electric vehicle (EV) buyers in mainland China who picked Tesla as their top