BYD unveiled its ultra-luxury Yangwang Dingyao sedan in Abu Dhabi, alongside a limited "Shanhe Dingyun" edition with a brown-and-jade colour scheme and a 300,000 yuan deposit. The launch signals BYD's push into the executive flagship segment.
AI server demand is pulling DRAM and HBM capacity away from phones, driving up memory costs. For China's minor handset makers, already thin on profit, the squeeze may be fatal — Meizu has already paused its own hardware.
China now retires roughly 9.8 million vehicles a year, and the country's steelmakers are moving into dismantling and recycling them. The shift turns a scrapyard business into a hunt for usable steel, parts and materials.
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.
Leshan Airport in Sichuan is preparing to open as a 4C-grade facility designed for 2 million passengers by 2030, while Zaozhuang's Yiyun Airport also nears operation. The buildout reflects a broader reshuffling of China's smaller-city aviation map.
A Chinese pharmaceutical company that pivoted toward computing power is selling idle assets to book a one-off gain of about 55 million yuan. The move buys time while its computing business moves from signed contracts to actual operations.
Hino and Mitsubishi Fuso merged into Archion in April and now face Chinese heavy-truck brands together, leaning on about 3,700 global sales and service points. Chinese makers went from near zero to roughly 40% of Indonesia's heavy-truck market in four years.
Transsion, the Shenzhen phone maker that conquered Africa's low-end market, is now squeezed by rising memory chip prices. It is leaning on stockpiles, a weak Hong Kong listing and a costly pivot into AI to hold its ground.
Chinese theme parks are competing for scare actors and immersive Halloween sets, with one Chengdu park deploying over 400 performers and staying open until midnight. The push shows how seasonal live entertainment has become a battleground for visitor numbers.
TrendForce forecasts server CPU shipments will rise 31% in 2026 and more than 40% in 2027 as AI agents shift data-center spending from accelerator cards toward balanced compute racks.
A Shanghai Star Market survey shows 24 of 49 listed optical communication companies grew third-quarter net profit by more than 50%, driven by AI computing and data-center demand for high-speed optical links.
A new embodied-AI data center in Hangzhou aims to replace slow human-operated collection with simulation, claiming it can produce in a month what the industry took two years to gather. The pitch reframes robot training capacity as a computing problem rather than a labor problem.
Westlake University has opened a world model research center in Hangzhou, aimed at the physical intelligence bottlenecks behind robotics and embodied AI. It pairs an academic lab with a founder of an AI startup, a model increasingly common in Chinese AI research.
XHEART says its X7 Ultra chip, built for end-to-end autonomous-driving models, has shipped more than 200,000 units in eight months of mass production and now powers 10 production car models.
XHEART has launched the X7 Ultra, a 700-TOPS chip designed around end-to-end driving models rather than small, task-specific ones. Its X7 series has already shipped more than 200,000 units across ten production models, with orders from over 40 more.
AI has cut the number of new dramas and short series, pushing Chinese actors to study abroad, take odd jobs or change careers. The shift is rewriting who gets to work in front of a camera.
DeepSeek is known globally as an AI lab, but among young Chinese users it has spawned a second identity: a fan-made character universe built around its whale logo. Fan art, nicknames and role-play now circulate alongside news of open-source releases and funding.
Rising memory chip prices are making used smartphones unusually valuable in China, with near-mint handsets flying off shelves in Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei market and some popular models climbing back above last year's prices.
Microsoft has offered voluntary exit packages to roughly 60,000 employees in the US, Canada, India and Britain, about a quarter of its staff. Workers up to internal level 70 must decide by early December, with compensation and career support on offer.
Audi has formalized a long-negotiated split of its China business, handing the classic four-ring badge to partner FAW and the new AUDI lettered brand to SAIC. The two lines will chase different buyers — combustion plus new energy on one side, smart electric cars on the other.
Anthropic's investor-day figures looked solid, but participants now discuss cutting its IPO valuation from about $2 trillion to $1.5 trillion. The gap tests how much pressure the AI sector's biggest listing can absorb.
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.
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.
EA has closed Bioware, the studio behind Baldur's Gate and Mass Effect, cancelling a new Mass Effect and cutting about 400 jobs. The shutdown ends a 30-year run that shaped the modern role-playing game.
Shanghai police arrested 25 people accused of using custom software to bulk-buy limited-edition blind boxes and resell them at a profit, seizing more than 5 million yuan in illegal gains.
A Shanghai pilot is issuing digital ID numbers to AI agents so companies can track who assigns them work, who approves it, and who is accountable when things go wrong.
DayOne Data Centers, a Singapore-based operator with major Chinese backing, has filed for a Nasdaq listing that could raise up to $5 billion. The move highlights how AI infrastructure is becoming one of the decade's biggest capital markets stories.
Apple has confirmed a Los Angeles launch event for October 28 US time, which is early October 29 in Beijing, teasing new MacBooks and iPads. Reports point to the company's first touchscreen MacBook, an M6 entry MacBook Pro, a refreshed iMac and an OLED iPad mini.
A robotics executive argues that sidewalk delivery robots have solved the driving problem but remain stuck on unglamorous costs: deploying in new sites, retrofitting buildings, and paying humans to step in when machines fail.
Tencent has introduced a method that lets large language models generate and solve their own training tasks, improving without new human data. The approach could reshape how Chinese AI labs compete with DeepSeek and others.
Decomp.dev, a community platform for reverse-engineering game code, is closing after its founders said AI tools have made its collaborative culture obsolete. The shutdown highlights how AI is reshaping even niche hobbyist communities.
Actress Wu Yue woke to find an AI-generated version of herself endorsing skincare on WeChat Channels. The platform permanently banned the account within hours, spotlighting China's fast-growing deepfake带货 problem.
DeepSeek now lets developers call web search and page-fetch tools through its API, billed at 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests. The move turns a free convenience into a metered product as Chinese AI labs look for revenue.
Samsung will use TSMC's 3-nanometer technology to build the base die for Nvidia's next custom high-bandwidth memory, breaking its one-stop manufacturing model. The move follows Nvidia's request that all three HBM suppliers adopt TSMC's process.
Shanghai Superconductor has topped out a massive new plant that will lift its output of high-temperature superconducting tape to 20,000 km a year, the largest such capacity in the world, as fusion and grid projects scramble for the material.
After years of breakneck growth, China's electric-vehicle industry is shifting from a land-grab to a survival-of-the-fittest contest, with export subsidies trimmed and quality accidents forcing a rethink of how carmakers compete.
Kuaishou's AI video arm Kling released version 4.0, and analysts are now asking whether the AI unit could be valued above the short-video parent that built it. The question is whether AI can lift Kuaishou past the limits of its core business.
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.
Changxin Technology expects about 130 billion yuan in net profit for the first nine months of 2026, reversing years of losses as AI demand sends memory chip prices soaring.
China's industry, police, environment and market regulators summoned more than 30 major automakers to demand tougher product testing and an end to misleading advertising. The meeting lands as the country's car industry battles a brutal price war and safety concerns.
