Chinese automotive-electronics maker RoadVoyage has changed hands, with a new investor taking control after four years under construction-equipment giant Zoomlion. The deal raises questions about where the in-car tech supplier goes next.
Adobe and Nvidia are widening their partnership to speed up the creation of AI agents, with a Nvidia Nemotron-powered brand concierge service coming to enterprise customers later this year. The news lands as Microsoft says it has finished pre-training a massive new in-house model.
A Chinese research team has built the country's most powerful domestically made superfluid helium system, reaching kilowatt-scale cooling at 2 Kelvin. The advance supports superconducting accelerators, fusion devices and advanced light sources.
AI company Anthropic says Git can no longer keep up with its agents, so it built Scion, a server-side version control system. The move raises fresh questions about how software engineering infrastructure will change.
Chinese AI company DeepSeek suffered a five-hour API outage on October 15 and is refunding users in credit based on their previous week of spending. The compensation formula, not the crash, is what users are debating.
Hengdian, China's largest film-production base, has awarded a 235 million yuan contract to a ByteDance-linked consortium to build an AI filmmaking platform, as studio activity in the town slows.
A new voice agent API from SpaceXAI brings AI phone support to eight cents a minute, promising record issue resolution at lower cost. The launch lands on a rough day for chip names, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down sharply.
A testing mishap pushed Mercedes-Benz to halt deliveries for 12 weeks while it reworked safety validation. The episode shows how expensive credibility has become in the race toward automated driving.
Data compression lets us send twenty photos in a blink and stream HD movies instantly, yet almost nobody notices it. A popular Chinese explainer argues this invisible technology is one of computing's most underrated achievements.
Meta is rolling out an AI-driven tool that lets Facebook users tell the algorithm, in plain language, what they want to see. The move hands some control back to users as regulators scrutinize how social feeds shape attention.
China's antitrust regulator approved Focus Media's purchase of a stake in rival Xinchao with conditions that strip exclusive elevator-ad contracts. The case raises a bigger question for platform businesses: when does a hard-won advantage become a locked door?
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will keep raising spending as it races to close the gap with rivals in frontier AI models. Investors briefly pushed the stock up nearly 5 percent before the gain cooled.
An open-source project called REA is drawing huge attention among developers by using AI to reverse-engineer software features, turning a task that once took days into a simple prompt.
Chinese tech firms are pitching AI workplace tools that replace headcount, not just software seats. The pitch is shifting from productivity to payroll, changing how companies decide who to hire.
Humanoid robot shipments in China jumped roughly fourfold, but cheap models drive most units while expensive machines generate most revenue. The split reveals where the money in China's robotics boom actually sits.
Seven years after retiring, the founder of display giant BOE has taken his chip design company, ESWIN Computing, public in Hong Kong. It is the third time the 69-year-old has tried to fill a gap in China's semiconductor industry.
Subscription features like Tesla's monthly Full Self-Driving plan are turning one-time car purchases into recurring software revenue. Automakers keep experimenting even after BMW's heated-seat fiasco showed buyers have limits.
Developer JonathanDC64's FFCCEOT-Recomp project lets the Nintendo DS game Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time run natively on PC through static recompilation, converting original ARM machine code into C source. It ships no copyrighted assets, so players must supply their own cartridge image.
A young craftsman from Yunnan has won millions of TikTok views by turning raw metal into knives, tools and ornaments with traditional hammer work. His sudden fame reflects a wider global appetite for slow, handmade craft.
Apple reportedly plans to launch a new iPad mini this month with an OLED screen and more base storage, but at a much higher price. The rumor puts the starting price near $799, up from $599 for today's model.
Stacking chips vertically promises faster, denser processors, but Chinese industry analysis argues the real bottleneck is not bonding precision — it is how much each working chip costs to produce. Yield and economics, not physics, decide whether 3D integration scales.
Zhou Hongyi, a well-known Chinese tech entrepreneur, broke his left knee falling from a bouldering wall about three metres up. The accident has focused attention on the fast-growing sport and the risks that come with indoor climbing gyms.
Shipments of AI glasses are climbing quickly, yet the devices still lack a must-have function. The real question is not what they can do, but what only glasses can do.
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.
Canyon Semiconductor will begin trading on Shenzhen's ChiNext board on October 13, pricing shares at 12.01 yuan each in a listing that underscores China's push for domestic chip capacity.
A memory chip shortage is squeezing the cheapest smartphones out of the market, rewriting the logic of the entry-level phone and leaving budget buyers with fewer options.
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.
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.
In 2026, leading Robotaxi operators are no longer winning on test miles or demo stunts. Cheaper sensors, stronger models and policy openings have turned technical leadership into a mere entry ticket, and alliances now decide the race.
Chinese auto-parts makers that supply Tesla are quietly developing their own humanoid robots, betting that car factories can mass-produce machines. Analysts see a race to lock in orders before the market opens.
Physicists at Tsinghua University have run a clock driven by the nucleus of thorium-229, not its electrons, pushing precision measurement into new territory. The result, published in Nature, was achieved alongside a European team.
Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, explaining how life's one-handed molecules may have emerged.
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.
A startup founded by a former SpaceX engineer raised $100 million to run driverless freight on rails, betting that short-haul routes under 500 miles are where automation wins.
At the 2026 Paris Motor Show, 22 Chinese electric carmakers will appear together, pressing an advantage created by Europe's shrinking affordable segment. Stellantis' chairman noted Europe had 49 models under €15,000 in 2019; now only one remains.
China holds the world's largest tungsten reserves yet its own output keeps falling, and tighter export controls are repricing the metal for carmakers, chipmakers and toolmakers worldwide.
A Zhihu essay reveals that the chainsaw began as a surgical saw for difficult births, not logging. The story traces how a tool can drift far from its original purpose — and why Chinese readers love such riddles.
A private Chinese fusion company says its spherical tokamak became the first commercial device to run a hydrogen-boron reaction, a fuel that produces almost no neutrons. The milestone is early but points to a cleaner, harder path to fusion power.
This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry honors two researchers who cracked a decades-old puzzle: how to make reactions produce only one mirror-image version of a molecule. The work traces back to a drug tragedy that harmed thousands of babies.
BlackBerry's phone business is gone, but its QNX software now runs inside millions of cars. The former $83 billion giant has quietly turned a collapse into a comeback.
Chinese AI video tools like Kuaishou's Kling are moving from viral demo clips into real production pipelines. As global rivals including Claude and GPT add video, the winners will be the tools creators cannot work without.
Chinese AI models burn most of the tokens on global routing platform OpenRouter but capture only a small slice of its revenue, raising questions about who owns the metrics that define success.
From shopping carts to ride-hailing, Chinese apps keep pushing instant loans at checkout. The offer is engineered, not generous — and the real product is your repayment behavior.
Chinese resellers are buying limited-edition goods worldwide and flipping them at markups of up to 400 percent, turning scarcity into a business. The model reveals how hype-driven demand differs from lasting customer loyalty.
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.
China has poured billions into highway fast-charging, adding more big-power chargers in eight months than in all the years before. Yet holiday queues still stretch for hours, because peak demand outruns even the fastest build-out.
During Golden Week, China's highways turned into a stress test for electric cars, with queues of four hours at charging stations to save a few dollars. Plug-in hybrids and pure EVs are fighting over the same plugs.
At a US robot combat event, a modified Chinese-made EngineAI T800 biped fought a human opponent and sent him flying with a single kick. The clip renews the debate over what humanoid robots should do next.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics honors Francis Halzen for turning a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice into IceCube, a detector that caught high-energy neutrinos from deep space.
Three scientists won a Nobel Prize for turning brain cells into controllable switches, letting researchers press a button and watch a specific neuron drive behaviour. The idea was once dismissed as a joke.
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.
After years of gimmicks, in-car companion robots are suddenly everywhere in Chinese vehicles, from Xiaomi's rotating screen to Geely's Eva. The timing is no accident: cheaper AI chips, an anxious market and a fight over what makes a car feel alive.
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.
Elon Musk has agreed to rename his AI arm SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, echoing a wider push to call advanced AI 'super intelligence.' The shift follows a new US executive order and the launch of a federal super intelligence task force.
Google has launched a prototype satellite carrying a Tensor Processing Unit chip to see whether AI hardware can survive and work in space. The company says the satellite is communicating normally, part of long-term research into orbital machine-learning infrastructure.
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.
Taiwan's chipmaking giant is in talks with Elon Musk's Terafab wafer project, with Musk confirming discussions are underway. The move could reshape where advanced chips for Tesla and SpaceX get built.
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.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has launched a new publishing group to consolidate hundreds of scattered journals under one roof, aiming to compete globally in a market long dominated by Western publishers.
Microsoft says Advanced Shader Delivery will expand to Qualcomm, Intel and Nvidia hardware this month, completing coverage of all four major GPU makers after AMD led the way. The feature downloads precompiled shaders from the cloud to cut loading times and stutter.
Nvidia has launched a 64GB version of its DGX Spark desktop AI computer at $4,999, with Chinese manufacturers including H3C among the first to build machines on it. The small box brings data-center-class AI training to a desk.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly reworking its models to run on Huawei's Ascend chips instead of Nvidia hardware. It is less a technical patch than a full relocation of its computing base.
China's biggest motorcycle show drew 300,000 visitors and 7 billion online views, with 1,120 exhibitors and 3,100 models. Insiders say the industry now has money and attention — but still trails on brand, culture and premium engineering.
Volkswagen's glass-walled Dresden plant, once a showcase for the Phaeton, is closing as Germany buys record numbers of Chinese-made cars. The reversal captures how quickly the global auto trade has flipped.
Huawei and Seres signed a new five-year deal in Shenzhen to upgrade their Aito electric vehicle brand, which now has more than 1.2 million users. The partnership deepens their bet on premium smart cars in China's crowded EV market.
A new arXiv paper offers an information-theoretic explanation for why large language models hallucinate instead of admitting uncertainty. A Chinese Q&A thread broke down the research for curious readers.
Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model built for complex reasoning and AI coding that leads benchmark tables but reportedly lags on practical tasks. It reaches security defenders first through a limited Fairwind program.
Huawei unveiled its Mate 90 series on October 1, its first flagship to go on sale the same day it launched, with prices starting at 5,999 yuan. Executive Richard Yu called the pricing "sincere" amid soaring memory chip costs.
A senior Huawei executive argues that carmakers may spend more developing their own smart driving systems than buying them, urging stronger division of labor between automakers and suppliers.
As AI-generated reviews, posts and videos flood Chinese platforms, users and companies are paying a premium for content that feels human. The shift is redefining what 'authenticity' means online.
As the 2026 Nobel Prizes approach, Chinese science outlet Guokr published its annual prediction list, weighing which discoveries are mature enough to win — and whether a China-based scientist might finally take one home.
Ant Group is folding its Alipay, digital payments and Sesame Credit units back into one Alipay business group, less than two years after splitting them apart. The reshuffle raises a bigger question: what is Alipay for when users no longer need to open the app?
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