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Smartphones on display at Honor’s booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2024. AFP

Huawei smartphone spin-off Honor undergoes shake up after CEO’s abrupt departure

The latest departures reflect internal complexities within the company after its organisational overhaul to prepare for a public listing.

22 Jan 2025 - 9:00AM

Exclusive | Art of the TikTok deal: China softening to potential app sale, sources say

21 Jan 2025 - 9:50PMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba Cloud rolls out expanded suite of AI models, tools in overseas push

21 Jan 2025 - 7:55PM

Artificial intelligence

Beijing puts spotlight on China’s new face of AI, DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng

Liang’s participation at Monday’s meeting with China’s premier reflects start-up DeepSeek’s growing prominence in the AI industry.

21 Jan 2025 - 6:30PM

Chinese Premier Li Qiang, left, listens to DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng at a meeting in Beijing on January 20, 2025. Photo: CCTV

ByteDance launches AI code editor overseas amid TikTok ban delay

The Chinese owner of TikTok rolled out the new software targeting overseas Chinese coders after a reprieve from the Trump administration.

21 Jan 2025 - 5:30PM

Artificial intelligence

AI-driven drug discovery aided by Greater Bay Area integration, firm says

XtalPi says AI is reducing drug discovery times to two years from four.

20 Jan 2025 - 4:55PMvideocam

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JD.com introduces gifting feature after Alibaba and Tencent

The Beijing-based tech giant has jumped on the latest trend in China’s e-commerce sector: online gifting.

17 Jan 2025 - 6:30PM

A logo of JD.com is seen on a helmet of a delivery man in Beijing. Photo: Reuters

TSMC’s US plant unlikely to get latest chip technology ahead of Taiwan, CEO says

Apple and Nvidia chip supplier TSMC is spending US$65 billion on three giant factories in the state of Arizona.

17 Jan 2025 - 5:52PM

Duolingo sees a spike in TikTok refugees learning Mandarin

Language-learning apps Duolingo and Drops say they have seen an increase in US users learning Chinese.

17 Jan 2025 - 11:22AM

Douyin cracks down on fake foreign accounts amid wave of ‘TikTok refugees’

Some mainland Chinese users have reposted videos, pretending to be foreign users to gain more followers, according to Douyin.

17 Jan 2025 - 11:47AM

Advertising for Chinese app Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, seen on a shopping centre floor in Beijing, January 15, 2025. Photo: AFP

Apple trails Huawei, Vivo in China smartphone market in 2024

iPhone shipments plummeted 25 per cent in China last quarter, pushing Apple to third place for the year amid rising competition.

16 Jan 2025 - 7:00PMvideocam

An Apple Store staff member attends to a customer as the new iPhone 16 series smartphones go on sale in Beijing on September 20, 2024. Photo: Reuters

TSMC logs record quarterly profit as AI demand surges

Stock price of the world’s largest contract chipmaker has leapt despite uncertainty posed by Donald Trump.

16 Jan 2025 - 4:30PM

TikTok prepares to shut down app in US on Sunday, sources say

Shutting down TikTok in the US could make it unavailable for users in many other countries, the company has said.

16 Jan 2025 - 10:54AM

Artificial intelligence

Chinese AI start-up MiniMax intensifies competition with new open-source models

The release, which includes foundational and multimodal models, comes weeks after rival DeepSeek set a new standard with its own open-source models.

16 Jan 2025 - 7:00AM

An image of a man who looks like 19th century Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh generated by Minimax’s Hailuo AI. Photo: Minimax

UBTech Robotics aims to revolutionise Foxconn’s iPhone factories in China

UBTech and Foxconn have signed a ‘comprehensive long-term partnership’ to deploy more robots in the iPhone maker’s factories.

16 Jan 2025 - 1:39AM

A humanoid robot developed by UBTech moves a heavy load onto an automated guided vehicle at Zeekr’s smart factory in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Photo: VCG via Getty Images

Cambricon, China’s answer to Nvidia, predicts first quarterly profit

The Chinese investors’ darling of 2024 is one of the nation’s best hopes in developing home-grown advanced graphics processors.

15 Jan 2025 - 6:30PM

Greater Bay Area

Hong Kong can help turn the Greater Bay Area into a biomedical hub, experts say

To advance innovation, however, the GBA needs to better integrate its medical data, panellists say.

15 Jan 2025 - 6:00PM

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ByteDance to invest US$614 million in new China computing centre amid AI demand

The TikTok owner is building a site covering more than 200,000 square metres in Shanxi province as it expands aggressively in the AI sector.

15 Jan 2025 - 7:00AMvideocam

ByteDance is investing in a new data centre after creating one of China’s most popular chatbots and emerging as a major player in the domestic artificial intelligence market. Photo: Shutterstock

YouTubers sell footage to tech giants as AI video arms race heats up

OpenAI and other firms’ need for footage to train AI video generators has content creators selling them unused footage, but there are issues.

15 Jan 2025 - 4:51AM

Apple leads smartphone market in fourth quarter, overcoming China decline

iPhone shipments surged to grab 23 per cent of the market in the final quarter of 2024, as a rebounding market saw growth start to slow.

14 Jan 2025 - 8:00PMvideocam

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China’s WeRide starts third European self-driving trial in Switzerland

Company is stepping up efforts in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Japan and South Korea, CEO Tony Han says.

14 Jan 2025 - 5:00PMvideocam

WeRide-powered autonomous vehicles have found use at Zurich airport and the French Open. Photo: Weibo/ Xauto报告

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia scientist praises Chinese humanoid robot, stoking interest

Shenzhen-based Engine AI hopes to capitalise on new-found interest in its human-shaped robots by lowering prices amid intense industry competition.

13 Jan 2025 - 9:00PM

Shenzhen-based Engine AI hopes lower prices of its humanoid robots will help it beat out the competition in China. Photo: Handout

US-China tech war

Chinese boss in American Factory approved to launch university

A new institution proposed by Fuyao Glass founder and chairman Cao Dewang has received approval from China’s Education Ministry.

13 Jan 2025 - 8:00PM

US-China tech war

China’s chip-buying binge in 2024 saw ICs outpace oil imports

Many Chinese firms stockpiled chips ahead of the planned roll-out of more expansive and stringent trade sanctions by Washington.

13 Jan 2025 - 7:00PM

Huawei to offer AI support to Chinese aviation, steel conglomerate Fangda

The deal between Huawei and Fangda comes as the Shenzhen-based technology giant is deepening its footprint in traditional industries.

13 Jan 2025 - 5:30PM

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ByteDance to invest US$614 million in new China computing centre amid AI demand

15 Jan 2025 - 7:00AMvideocam

ByteDance is investing in a new data centre after creating one of China’s most popular chatbots and emerging as a major player in the domestic artificial intelligence market. Photo: Shutterstock

China EVs

BYD’s labour woes in Brazil, US bans Chinese tech in smart cars: 7 EV reads

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BYD electric vehicles form a queue before being loaded onto the Chinese carmaker’s Explorer No 1 carrier for export to Brazil. Photo: China Daily via Reuters

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EU tariffs failing to stop flood of Chinese electric vehicles, new trade data suggests

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BYD electric cars are stacked up for export at a port in eastern China. China’s rapidly increasing exports of electric vehicles has sparked tensions with the European Union. Photo: AFP

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Huawei smartphone spin-off Honor undergoes shake up after CEO’s abrupt departure

22 Jan 2025 - 9:00AM

Smartphones on display at Honor’s booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2024. AFP

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Alibaba Cloud rolls out expanded suite of AI models, tools in overseas push

21 Jan 2025 - 7:55PM

Alibaba Cloud aims to work with 100 ecosystem partners in 2025 to develop and provide cutting-edge artificial intelligence and cloud-computing solutions for businesses worldwide. Photo: Shutterstock

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