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Opinion | Forget Doge, it’s Musk’s Tesla that looks in need of a rescue
Elon Musk wielded a chainsaw on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the United States last month, dramatising his intent to slash US

Hong Kong draws Chinese AI companies from CloudWalk to iFlyTek as city pivots to tech
Hong Kong is an attractive regional hub for mainland Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-ups looking for a bridgehead to expand into overseas markets, according to

Tencent’s AI investment to drive long-term growth, analysts say, amid DeepSeek integration
Tencent Holdings is poised for “long-term growth” from its aggressive spending on artificial intelligence (AI) as China’s most valuable tech giant aligns its future with

Wingtech sells 4.6 billion yuan of assembly assets to Luxshare after US sanctions losses
Wingtech Technology, a Chinese supplier to Apple and other electronics makers, has agreed to spin off a major piece of its operations after US sanctions

Haier debuts three-drum ‘lazybones’ washing machine that handles multiple loads at once
Chinese household appliance giant Haier has introduced a front-loading washing machine capable of handling three separate loads simultaneously, a feature that has some dubbing it

Hong Kong investment arm backs Chinese RISC-V start-up StarFive in tech push
Shanghai-based semiconductor start-up StarFive aims to boost adoption of its chips with the financial backing of the Hong Kong government, according to its founder, as

Tech war: Huawei-related chip equipment maker to debut products at Shanghai trade show
A state-backed semiconductor tool maker based in Shenzhen, which has connections with Huawei Technologies and has raised hopes of China reducing its reliance on US

Xpeng sets up first self-branded EV supercharging station in Hong Kong
Xpeng, a maker of premium electric vehicles (EVs), chose Hong Kong as its first stop outside mainland China to set up a self-branded supercharging station,

Tencent’s Hunyuan T1 AI reasoning model rivals DeepSeek in performance and price
The Chinese technology giant’s latest offering, launched on Friday, leverages large-scale reinforcement learning, a technique also employed by DeepSeek in its R1 reasoning model, which

Exclusive | AI entrepreneur Lee Kai-fu bets his start-up’s future on DeepSeek and open source
DeepSeek’s launch of its latest open-source models has heralded China’s own “ChatGPT moment” by igniting a frenzy around artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, while raising questions

BYD’s Denza launches N9 SUV to rival Mercedes, BMW in premium EV segment
China’s biggest electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD launched its most expensive model under its Denza brand to challenge BMW and Mercedes-Benz in the luxury segment

US FCC probing if Huawei, other Chinese firms are seeking to evade curbs
The US Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it is investigating nine Chinese companies including Huawei Technologies, ZTE, Hangzhou Hikvision, China Mobile, China Telecom and

Baidu stresses strong data privacy measures after executive’s daughter doxes netizen
Baidu, China’s leading internet search firm and artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse, has denied that the company breached user privacy after an incident involving the teenage

ByteDance advances DeepSeek work in AI reasoning with open-source project led by intern
TikTok owner ByteDance, which has invested heavily in artificial intelligence (AI), has unveiled a new system that claims to improve on the work done by

Video | Young women in China find virtual romance in hit game ‘Love and Deepspace’
Love and Deepspace, a popular mobile game, has captured the hearts of many young women in China and beyond, with its lifelike 3D characters, engaging

Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri
Apple is undergoing a rare shake-up of its executive ranks, aiming to get its artificial intelligence efforts back on track after months of delays and

Humanoid robot war heats up as US and China race towards mass production
The race to put humanoid robots into mass production has intensified over the past week, as companies in both the US and China made a

Nvidia to open quantum computing lab in Boston, says CEO Jensen Huang
Nvidia will open a quantum computing research lab in Boston, where it plans to collaborate with scientists from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of

Tech war: Chinese AI models led by DeepSeek catch up with US rivals at lower prices
China’s home-grown artificial intelligence (AI) models are rapidly closing their performance gap with leading US rivals while offering significantly lower prices, according to benchmarking and

Huawei launches first foldable smartphone running on home-grown HarmonyOS Next platform
Huawei Technologies on Thursday launched a new foldable smartphone running on its home-grown HarmonyOS operating system, as the tech giant builds on the revival of

Musk’s xAI joins Microsoft-BlackRock US$30 billion AI fund
Microsoft, the biggest backer of Sam Altman’s OpenAI, and BlackRock, which has an executive on the artificial intelligence start-up’s board, are joining forces with one

SoftBank Group to acquire Ampere Computing in US$6.5 billion AI-focused deal
SoftBank Group said on Wednesday it would acquire Ampere Computing, a US chip start-up founded by the former president of Intel that is increasingly focused

Nvidia unveils new AI products that it says can help DeepSeek’s models run faster
Nvidia’s new offerings could significantly boost the performance of DeepSeek’s R1 model, the chip giant’s CEO Jensen Huang said on Tuesday, in a message aimed

Tencent fourth-quarter profit surges 90% on strong gaming, AI performance
Chinese social media giant Tencent Holdings said its fourth-quarter profit rose 90 per cent from a year earlier, aided by strong performance from its video-gaming

China’s top memory chipmaker YMTC to raise prices, alongside US peers Micron, Sandisk
These memory chipmakers have already informed their distributors, including those in mainland China, of the price increase, according to various industry publications. ZhiTai, a retail
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