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Tech war: Nvidia CEO’s China visit seen as sign of market commitment amid US restrictions
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s surprise visit to Beijing to meet top Chinese officials this week was meant to convey the US chip giant’s commitment to

Temu and Shein to raise US prices from next week over Trump’s tariffs
China-founded e-commerce sites Temu and Shein say they plan to raise prices for US customers starting next week, a ripple effect from US President Donald

Tencent offers 28,000 internships as China grapples with youth unemployment
Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings announced a significant campus recruitment initiative on Thursday, offering 28,000 internships over the next three years as the country’s 12

TikTok craze offers hope to Chinese exporters caught in trade war crossfire
Jojo Wang, a sourcing agent based in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, was stunned when her social media followers surged from around 100 to

Tech war: Nvidia CEO Huang says China a ‘key market’ on Beijing visit, as US bans AI chips
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has made a surprise visit to Beijing, meeting Chinese officials a day after the US chip giant disclosed that

AMD says US rule on chips to China could cost it US$800 million
Chip developer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Wednesday said it expects new US licensing requirements for semiconductors exported to China to cost it as much

US Nvidia H20 restrictions could be shot in the arm for Chinese AI chips like Huawei’s
The US government’s latest export restrictions on Nvidia’s H20 artificial intelligence (AI) chips are set to disrupt the plans of China’s Big Tech firms in

TikTok Shop’s sales in US plunge as Trump’s tariffs hit Chinese imports
Gross merchandise volume (GMV) on TikTok Shop amounted to US$197.4 million last week, a drop from US$250.9 million the previous week, after the US first

ASML’s orders fall short amid AI demand concerns, as CEO warns of tariff uncertainty
ASML Holding reported orders for the first quarter that were almost €1 billion less than expected and warned that it did not know how to

EVs | Xpeng’s X9 electric van eyes Europe sales in July after outselling Toyota Alphard in China
Chinese premium electric vehicle (EV) maker Xpeng introduced the latest version of its X9 multipurpose vehicle for the local market and aimed to launch it

China’s DHgate e-commerce app rises in US app store rankings amid Trump tariffs
US internet users are rushing to download a Chinese e-commerce app amid an escalating tariff war between the world’s two largest economies, after videos showing

Tech war: Huawei launches new AI architecture said to rival Nvidia’s products
China’s Huawei Technologies has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure architecture that is reportedly set to rival US chip giant Nvidia’s offerings in addressing

China AI unicorn Zhipu eyes IPO filing this year after DeepSeek’s success
Zhipu AI, a Beijing-based artificial intelligence (AI) unicorn born out of China’s prestigious Tsinghua University, has filed pre-initial public offering (IPO) documents with China’s securities

Nvidia says it will build up to US$500 billion of AI gear in US
Nvidia, the dominant player in chips for artificial intelligence models, plans to produce as much as half a trillion dollars’ worth of AI infrastructure in

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg testifies at landmark US antitrust trial
Meta Platforms chief and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg took the stand on Monday in a landmark US antitrust trial in which his social media juggernaut stands

China’s largest iPhone factory resumes hiring after Trump spares electronics from tariffs
Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Group has resumed recruitment at the world’s largest iPhone factory, located in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, following a brief

Hutchmed weighs cancer drug’s supply-chain options amid US-China trade war
Hutchmed (China) is evaluating supply-chain options for a blood-cancer drug recently approved by Beijing to mitigate impact from the ongoing US-China trade war, according to

Meet Peng Zhihui, the latest young robotics star to catch the Chinese premier’s attention
Peng Zhihui, founder of humanoid robot start-up AgiBot and a former “genius recruit” at Huawei Technologies, has become the latest young tech entrepreneur to attend

Apple’s supply chain under pressure from tariffs amid iPhone price hike speculation
Apple’s sprawling supply chain, from Chinese factories to global retail stores, faces unprecedented uncertainty as the US-China trade war intensifies, according to analysts and consumers.

New AI fund in China to pour US$8 billion into early-stage projects
China has disclosed details about a 60 billion yuan (US$8.2 billion) state fund aimed at early-stage investments in artificial intelligence (AI) projects, underscoring Beijing’s commitment

Opinion | Don’t leave parents to suffer the fallout of social media overuse
It is not unusual to see families go out for a meal together but each one is looking at their phone instead of talking to

Alibaba’s Quark surpasses ByteDance’s Doubao, DeepSeek as China’s top AI app
Alibaba Group Holding’s revamped artificial intelligence (AI) assistant app, Quark, which offers a user-friendly interface, has surpassed ByteDance’s Doubao to become China’s most popular AI

TikTok owner ByteDance’s overseas sales jump in 2024 despite US hurdles: report
TikTok’s parent ByteDance is said to have recorded a 63 per cent surge in overseas sales in 2024, driven primarily by the short-video app’s growth,

Chinese AI firm SenseTime bets on multimodal models to stand out from rivals
SenseTime, an artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer in China, has launched new models that it claims surpass OpenAI products in reasoning capabilities, as it bets on

SenseTime to expand computing power amid surging AI model demand
SenseTime, an artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer in China, is set to expand its computing power by up to a triple-digit percentage annually in the next
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