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.
Tesla unveiled its second-generation Roadster in Texas, demonstrating a car that can briefly hover, drive upside down, and adjust its position mid-air using cold-gas thrusters. The stunt blends rocket technology with electric vehicles.
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.
A long-awaited health feature, sleep apnea notifications, has gone live on Apple Watch in mainland China after a two-year wait. It watches your breathing overnight and flags possible pauses, nudging users toward a doctor rather than diagnosing them.
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.
Analysts at Barclays say clients keep asking whether Tesla and SpaceX could combine, reviving speculation about a Musk mega-merger. No deal has been confirmed, but the chatter is shaping how investors view both companies.
A hacker known as Cyberleek released new Grand Theft Auto 6 footage after his own meme coin crashed, raising awkward questions about leaks tied to crypto payouts.
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 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.
China's central bank has cleared Visa's local entity to prepare a bank-card clearing business, ending years of waiting. The US giant joins a market long dominated by UnionPay, where margins are thin and habits are hard to change.
A Chinese tech blog explains why podcast edits can pop, jar or feel unnatural even when the words line up. The fix lies in cognitive psychology, not fancier software.
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?
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.
Apple is reportedly testing built-in microphones in its next Apple TV 4K, letting users summon Siri by voice alone. A new Siri Remote with a speaker would also make the remote easier to find.
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.
OnePlus China chief Li Jie says the OnePlus 16 skips a global 185Hz refresh rate because screens can't yet balance smoothness with power and heat. He calls the phone experience-first, not spec-first.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin could go public within a few years after its first multi-billion-dollar outside funding round. The Amazon founder now claims a much clearer view of the rocket company's finances.
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.
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.
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.
OpenAI is rolling out an invisible text watermark called textGrain for ChatGPT and Codex output in the EU, while API customers worldwide can now switch the marking on for chosen models.
In China's AI-generated comic drama boom, production costs plunged from 30,000 yuan to 3,000 — yet many creators say profits never arrived, because cheaper content means fiercer bidding for attention.
Apple will swap out a small batch of iPhone 18 Pro Max units on AT&T's network after a software fault knocked out cellular service. The company says the issue is limited to one US carrier and does not affect versions sold in China.
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.
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.
China's electric-vehicle startups posted a mixed September, with Leapmotor holding first place while Xpeng and Xiaomi pushed past 40,000 deliveries and Huawei-backed Aito slipped. The month shows growth is no longer lifting every brand equally.
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.
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.
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?
JAC Motors told investors it is in early, non-binding talks with Huawei and Stellantis after its shares jumped over 20% in three days. No deal terms have been set, and the company warned the outcome remains highly uncertain.
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