6 July 2025

Yum China Holdings, the operator of KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants in mainland China, will further embrace artificial intelligence (AI) to improve operating efficiency and profitability and allow its store managers to focus on customer service. The firm, which introduced its Q-Smart AI-powered assistant in June, was expected to help reduce waste, improve quality and […]

Meituan said daily transaction volume on its dominant on-demand delivery reached an all-time high since its inception in 2010, briefly crashing its platform as online purchases surged amid a fresh round of price war among China’s e-commerce leaders. Daily orders of food and retail goods for its instant delivery service surpassed 120 million on Saturday,

Xreal, the Chinese augmented reality start-up behind Google’s first Android XR-powered augmented reality (AR) glasses, is gearing up for the mass-market release of its lightweight eyewear as early as the first quarter of 2026, its co-founder said. Code-named Project Aura, the product was first announced at Google’s annual I/O developer conference in May. Rivalling offerings

Jointly developed by open-source initiative Agentica and San Francisco-based start-up Together AI, DeepSWE was trained on the Qwen3-32B large language model (LLM) – part of Alibaba Cloud’s third-generation family of AI models. It topped the leaderboard of the latest SWEBench-Verified test, scoring 59 per cent accuracy against other so-called open-weight models like DeepSeek’s V3-0324, the