A Bosch China executive says cars will never become a third space, pushing back on the idea that vehicles should compete with homes and offices. The remark lands as Chinese automakers load cabins with screens, seats and software.
Huawei has teased a new foldable computer, the MateBook Fold S, with a video showing it slipped into a paper envelope. The device appears to be a smaller sibling to the MateBook Fold Ultimate Design and may include a secondary rear screen, though Huawei has released no specifications or price.
Tech giants are piling into pharmaceuticals, betting that AI can shorten drug discovery and cut failure rates. The question is how much of that promise is real and how much is a familiar boom.
A wave of Chinese carmakers — Li Auto, Xiaomi, Leapmotor, Xpeng — now advertise self-developed batteries. The fight is not over who makes the cells, but over who controls the pack, the software and the margin.
Zhuhai plans to buy back a stalled hotel plot on remote Wan Mountain Island for about 181 million yuan, the same day a regional rescue package worth hundreds of billions of yuan moves forward. It is a small window into how Chinese developers are unwinding idle land.
BMW Brilliance has begun a staffing cut across three Shenyang plants, with departing workers estimating 1,800 to 2,000 P-class production roles affected and a severance package of N+5 months. The move lands as foreign joint-venture carmakers lose ground in China's fast-shifting market.
Apple has struck a deal with Alibaba to embed the Qwen model inside Apple Intelligence in China, letting Siri, writing tools and visual search call on Chinese text and image understanding. Testing opens on 4 November with the latest iOS developer beta, ahead of a full release in December.
Seres, the Chinese automaker that built its Aito brand alongside Huawei, reported a 41.7% revenue drop in the third quarter but swung back to a 1.42 billion yuan net profit. The numbers show how hard it is to decouple from a powerful technology partner.
Huawei and China Southern Power Grid have signed a major cooperation agreement that could reshape how grid equipment suppliers compete. The deal points to deeper integration of digital technology into power infrastructure and a shift in the rules for vendors.
As more Chinese cars ship with assisted-driving systems, the suppliers behind them are winning record numbers of production contracts yet struggling to turn those wins into profit. Tianzhu Vision's experience shows why scale alone does not fix the economics of the business.
JD's advertising arm says the real bottleneck in generative ad recommendation sits on general-purpose servers, not GPUs. Working with Huawei's Kunpeng team, it collapsed four cache tiers into two and rebuilt its RPC layer, cutting end-to-end inference latency 15% ahead of the 618 shopping festival.
At the 200,000–300,000 yuan price band, new Chinese EVs now benchmark Xiaomi rather than Tesla. Executives at Chery's Luxeed and Volkswagen's Anhui unit openly compare their cars to Xiaomi's SU7 and YU7, a sign of how fast the marketing reference point has moved.
SK Hynix has paused the planned IPO of its US subsidiary Solidigm despite rising memory chip prices, leaving investors and Chinese storage players waiting. The move highlights how volatile semiconductor valuations are reshaping the industry's access to public markets.
Audi has named Jeff Zhang, a former Chery executive, as its first Chinese national president for China, effective November 1. It is the fourth leadership change in five years for a brand that is losing ground in the world's biggest electric-car market.
GAC Aion's new Ray7 launches with Huawei's DriveONE EMB, a fully electric brake-by-wire system that removes the hydraulic fluid Bosch has long dominated. It is the clearest sign yet that Huawei wants a bigger slice of the parts business, not just software.
ASML says customer orders for 2027 and 2028 already exceed its expansion plans, with some clients asking about 2029 and 2030. The Dutch giant will lift output of EUV and immersion DUV machines by 30 percent next year.
iFlytek unveiled its Spark X2.6 end-cloud large model, claiming it is the first to break through coding and agent capabilities using only Chinese-made computing power. The company says it is the sole major model builder training without Nvidia hardware.
DeepSeek released DeepInfer, the inference framework that runs its large-scale chat service, under the Apache 2.0 license, plus a companion token-encoding toolkit. It is the company's latest move to open up its full stack, from models to the software that serves them.
Continental's spun-off automotive arm Aumovio will pay BMW €350 million to settle a brake-system warranty dispute, a sum larger than its first-half operating profit. It is now betting on a new satellite-camera contract with a leading Chinese carmaker.
Luxeed, Huawei's smart-car brand built with Chery, has entered a government list of proposed new vehicle manufacturers. The listing marks a step toward independent production status, though it still identifies the brand as a Chery group member.
Ulanqab, a northern Chinese city known for grasslands and potatoes, is now a major green data center hub hosting Huawei, Apple, Alibaba and ByteDance. Its cool climate and renewable power have drawn over 100 signed projects and 190,000 petaflops of computing capacity.
Two Chinese startups building 'world models' and embodied AI have raised major funding, showing investors' appetite for robots that can simulate and plan before they act.
Huawei's car-making partner Luxeed has been proposed for an independent vehicle production license in China, an insider confirms, with plans to list. The move deepens the brand's split from manufacturer Chery and tests Huawei's carmaking model.
Two high-profile failures — a luxury Huawei-JAC sedan's brake bracket snapping in tests and a Chery SUV's rear axle tearing off in Malaysia — have overseas buyers asking whether Chinese cars are rushed to market.
Apple has opened pre-orders for the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone, priced from 15,999 yuan. The company's own repair estimates show an inner-screen fix costs nearly half the phone's price.
A Chinese science writer asks why younger internet users have never heard of classic PC viruses like Panda Burning Incense, and explains what changed in how computers and software are built.
Three Maextro V800 luxury sedans suffered identical brake pedal bracket failures in a 100 km/h emergency-stop test. Owner clubs call it a safety defect; the brand frames the fix as a free upgrade, not a recall.
Avatr unveiled its T09 concept SUV in Paris, a flagship with four lidar sensors co-designed with Huawei. The production version is planned for 2026, with an estimated price above 500,000 yuan.
A media outlet's emergency braking test broke the brake pedal bracket on three brand-new Maextro V800 luxury cars. The videos went viral, splitting opinion between those calling it a fatal design flaw and those calling the test unfair.
A testing video of a luxury Huawei-backed MPV sent shares in its partner JAC tumbling, sparking a debate about how car reviews move markets. The episode shows how quickly amateur testing can shake a brand in China.
China's biggest tech companies are racing to make AI assistants the default gateway on smartphones, each with a different strategy. The winner may decide how billions of people search, shop and pay.
A widely watched test of the Maextro V800, a million-yuan luxury car from Huawei and JAC, showed brake pedal brackets cracking in three straight runs. The testers say it was ordinary highway braking; the brand disagrees.
In China's smart EV era, one vehicle is increasingly assembled by many partners — automakers, chip designers, software teams, data platforms, dealers and service networks. A new look at the AITO partnership asks what actually makes a brand grow when no single company builds the whole car.
During China's National Day holiday, Beijing mall showrooms for electric cars drew thin crowds and few special offers, while online launch perks did the persuading. Dealers say the old autumn buying rush no longer works the way it used to.
Huawei and Qualcomm have signed a multi-year patent licensing deal covering 5G, computing, AI and networking, with Qualcomm buying some Huawei US patents. The agreement reframes a quarter-century relationship that began with Huawei paying royalties.
At a September industry forum, Chinese car executives stopped repeating optimistic slogans and admitted real problems: rushed development cycles, oversized batteries, and uneasy reliance on rivals' technology. The candor signals a market shifting from growth-at-any-cost to hard choices.
Chinese reviewers at Geekerwan say Huawei's new Kirin 9050 Pro chip, exclusive to the Mate 90 Pro Max, outperforms Qualcomm's fifth-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite in several heavy gaming scenes, signaling steady progress for Huawei's in-house silicon.
Huawei's car communications team drove the 561-km Duku Highway and found strong signal on 98.7% of the route. The test shows how satellite links are becoming a selling point for Chinese smart cars.
Chinese automakers are increasingly building their own batteries or signing with second-tier suppliers, loosening CATL's grip on the world's largest EV market. The shift is reshaping who keeps the profits in electric cars.
September brought no broad recovery to China's car market, but the biggest automakers kept growing anyway. Competition is shifting from chasing new buyers to fighting over existing ones.
