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Wency Chen
Wency Chen
Shanghai
@ChenWQ45
Reporter, Tech
Wency tells stories that explore how technologies are reshaping society, with a focus on cross-border e-commerce, AI, the supply chain and others. Before joining SCMP, Wency contributed to KrASIA, Wired, Rest of World, World of Chinese, Tech in Asia, Vice China (BIE), Harper's Bazaar, etc. She attended Columbia Journalism School.

NetEase Cloud Music, a subsidiary of China’s second-largest video gaming company, started offering error messages in place of tunes on Monday afternoon.

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Thailand authorities are tightening regulations on the bargain shopping site Temu to protect local merchants from the influx of low-priced, direct-to-consumer Chinese products, according to a media report.

Sellers on the app from China’s PDD Holdings are finding it difficult to resolve disputes over withheld earnings, which must be done outside the mainland.

Black Sesame’s listing initiative in Hong Kong would follow the successful initial public offering in June of Tencent Holdings-backed QuantumPharm.

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Hundreds of Chinese suppliers on Temu, the overseas shopping app run by PDD Holdings, staged a protest at the e-commerce giant’s office in Guangzhou over alleged unreasonable platform policies.

The recruitment comes as the Hong Kong government makes efforts to transform the city into a technology hub by leveraging the research capabilities of its top universities.

Chinese self-driving start-ups are rushing to float shares in Hong Kong and other markets, as the technology appears to be closer to the holy grail of commercial deployment.

Large language models are ‘bad at maths’ and can only predict answers based on training data, according to Zhejiang University researcher Wu Yiquan.

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A sea change is taking place in China’s venture capital industry as the two-decade marriage between US investors and mainland start-ups comes to an end, casting a shadow over the country’s tech landscape.

The global smartphone market grew by 6 per cent year on year in the second quarter, with Apple and Samsung occupying the top two spots, followed by Chinese brands Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo.

A Chinese venture capital firm has dismissed talk that it has exited the primary market amid heated debate over the future of the country’s once vibrant venture funding industry.

The founder of Stepfun, which develops foundational models, has set its sights on improving multimodal models as China faces curtailed access to advanced chips.

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AI start-ups from Hong Kong grabbed some of the spotlight at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai this week, as they showcased products and services to underscore the city’s ambitions to become an innovation hub.

A Shanghai-based AI start-up is betting on so-called ‘scaling law’ to increase its AI capabilities, despite the difficulties in obtaining advanced chips from the US.

Alibaba’s midyear shopping promotion has it going head-to-head with younger e-commerce competitors such as Xiaohongshu, China’s answer to Instagram.