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China’s robot firms’ lament: if we only had a ‘brain’, and more data

Experts at WAIC discuss the bottlenecks preventing embodied AI from improving robots’ real-world interactions.

Alibaba vows to appeal US$629m EU fine for breaches of Digital Services Act

Why China’s open-weight AI model Kimi K3 is sparking anxiety in Silicon Valley

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Big Tech

SenseTime CEO bets on ‘task economy’ as token prices set to drop

AI’s true commercial value will shift towards a ‘task economy’ where users pay for completed, complex tasks, says Xu Li.

Xu Li, CEO of SenseTime, unveiled the company’s SenseNova U1 Pro model at WAIC on Saturday. Photo: Handout
Xu Li, CEO of SenseTime, unveiled the company’s SenseNova U1 Pro model at WAIC on Saturday. Photo: Handout

Tech War

Moonshot AI pushes China closer to US in frontier tech

An overwhelming rush to sign up for Moonshot’s Kimi K3 model underscores how China is rapidly gaining ground on the US in artificial intelligence.

Big Tech

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 faces GPU crunch amid US-China tech rivalry

Chinese start-up pauses Kimi K3 subscriptions due to surging demand and compute shortages, highlighting the country’s AI chip challenges.

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China to conclude Trip.com antitrust probes as soon as this week, sources say

Market regulator expected to close investigation into top online travel service provider, with potential fines running into billions of yuan.

Trip.com is expected to face fines of up to 6 billion yuan. Photo: Shutterstock
Trip.com is expected to face fines of up to 6 billion yuan. Photo: Shutterstock

Tech

Alibaba previews Qwen3.8, claiming its strength trails only Anthropic’s Fable 5

Preview reflects the latest phase in China’s AI push, as domestic labs chase parity with US heavyweights.

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Big Tech

AI work agents: China’s Ant, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu flex for enterprise clients

Top AI summit spotlights race to embed autonomous digital workers into everyday business operations.

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Changzhou says it is building China’s first city-level green token factory

Project is expected to churn out 60 trillion tokens a year, driving the country’s AI clean-power ambitions forward.

People visit the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 17. Photo: Reuters

Policy

China AI summit hears Global South needs equal access to avoid digital divide

Delegates at the World AI Conference in Shanghai warn fragmentation risks isolating emerging markets and concentrating advanced computing in rich economies.

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The World AI Conference in Shanghai comes amid mounting concerns that a digital divide could exclude emerging markets from critical development opportunities. Photo: Xinhua
The World AI Conference in Shanghai comes amid mounting concerns that a digital divide could exclude emerging markets from critical development opportunities. Photo: Xinhua

Tech War

Alibaba targets Nvidia’s dominant software ecosystem with open-source AI stack

The firm’s chip unit T-Head aims to lower migration barriers to Zhenwu AI computing architectures, following similar initiatives by Huawei and Moore Threads.

Tech War

Chinese chip start-up Biren bets on light-based ‘supernodes’ to match Nvidia

The firm uses near-packaged optics to bypass traditional architecture limits and scale more than 1,000 processor cards across a cluster.

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Tech Trends

Insert token: how China’s surging AI use is turning compute into currency

As the cost of running AI models continues to drop, the token economy is reshaping ecosystems far beyond corporate cubicles.

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Tech War

Xi’s call on AI, Trump blasts China, US tariffs

This week: Chinese president urges open and secure AI, US leader accuses Beijing over 2020 election, GDP growth slows. Next week: US global tariff expiry, Apec ministers meet, Hong Kong lawmakers decamp to Beijing.

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he arrives at the opening ceremony of the World AI Conference in Shanghai. Photo: EPA//Pool
Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he arrives at the opening ceremony of the World AI Conference in Shanghai. Photo: EPA//Pool

Policy

Xi Jinping’s keynote speech at the World AI Conference

The Chinese president addressed the opportunities and challenges of AI, urging the country to seize the “rare historic opportunity” of AI-driven growth by embracing technological openness.

Companies

Shein clears Hong Kong IPO hurdle as valuation halves to below US$50b: sources

Regulatory headwinds, alongside prolonged IPO delays, have severely dented the unicorn’s valuation.

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The AI industrial revolution: why US faces a historic tech reckoning from China

From EVs to robotics, China’s advancement in cutting-edge tech has seen it shake off the West’s long-standing belief in US exceptionalism.

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Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

Tech Trends

For China’s tech workers, AI ‘optimisation’ sounds like ‘unemployment’

China’s office workers are worrying whether their jobs can be done by artificial intelligence – and whether their companies will make the switch.

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Big Tech

Can Huawei’s ‘chip queen’ help China beat the US tech blockade?

He Tingbo says her epiphany came from an ancient irrigation system in Sichuan province, built without modern machinery or electricity.

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Tech War

A cloud above the clouds: US, China jockey for position in computing space race

China could be a leading player in the new technological battlefield, but the US has a substantial lead in essential tools such as reusable rockets.

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Insert token: how China’s surging AI use is turning compute into currency

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China’s robot firms’ lament: if we only had a ‘brain’, and more data

A humanoid robot made by Agibot is pictured during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Saturday. Photo: AFP

Tech War

Why China’s open-weight AI model Kimi K3 is sparking anxiety in Silicon Valley

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People visit the Moonshot AI stand, featuring the Kimi K3 model, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 18. Photo: AFP

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‘Systemic leap’: China’s drug innovation push yields bumper crop

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In addition to surging novel drug development, China’s cross-border deals with global giants show no sign of abating. Photo: Shutterstock

China Economy

What will China’s phasing out of its EV battery tax break mean for the industry?

Cars produced by Chinese automakers BYD and MG at the Lianyungang port in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on July 1. Photo: AFP
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