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Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek took the top spot on a major US business spending index in June, surging as more companies swap out expensive American options like OpenAI and Anthropic in favour of more affordable alternatives.

As artificial intelligence steps out of the digital realm and into the real world, the race to build the embodied “brains” powering next-generation robots has become the newest battleground in tech competition between China and the United States.

In its latest bid to dominate China’s next-generation digital gateway, Alibaba Group Holding is opening its Qwen AI assistant to major brands, allowing users to order everything from fried chicken to bubble tea through simple conversation.

ByteDance risks throwing away its lead in China’s fierce market for consumer artificial intelligence by monetising too early, according to analysts, after its flagship chatbot Doubao shed millions of users following a sneak peek at paid-subscription tiers.

US President Donald Trump signed a long-awaited executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) on Tuesday, which asked technology companies to voluntarily share advanced models before they are released, signalling a shift in the administration’s largely la...

Chinese smartphone makers are preparing for their most challenging year since the Covid-19 pandemic, as analysts say skyrocketing memory chip prices are forcing brands to make a difficult choice: absorb the higher costs, raise retail prices or downgrade sto...

Chinese companies in 15 key industrial sectors received vastly more state support than their international competitors between 2005 and 2024, according to an OECD report released on Monday.

China’s SAIC Motor plans to set ⁠up a car ⁠factory in Spain’s ⁠northwestern region of Galicia that would be its first production facility in the European Union, the regional government said on Monday.

Unitree Robotics, one of the leading forces in mainland China’s booming humanoid robot sector, has cleared a major hurdle for its highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) after passing a listing committee hearing on Monday.

A semi-annual reshuffle of key gauges tracking China’s yuan-denominated stocks is set to boost the representation of technology companies, a move expected to lure more inflows and further increase the sector’s appeal, according to investment banks.

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up MiniMax has unveiled its latest flagship AI model, M3, designed to anchor the company’s push into coding agents and automated workflows.

Under the weight of sustained US export controls on advanced semiconductors, China’s AI chipmakers are battling to forge a self-reliant silicon ecosystem capable of breaking Nvidia’s stranglehold on the market.

The US Department of Commerce on Sunday moved to close a year-old potential loophole it had created that may have led companies to export ‌the world’s most advanced chips – such as Nvidia’s most sophisticated Rubin and Blackwell processors, as well as AMD’s...

Microchip development has always been a race to build smaller and smaller transistors – the fundamental components of chip circuits.

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company MiniMax says it recorded a fivefold surge in its global enterprise and developer client base over the past six months, highlighting the sharp expansion of its international footprint, even as the Hong Kong-listed...

Home-grown innovative drugs make up most of the medicines China’s drug regulator has approved for sale so far this year, underscoring the country’s biotech boom.

'The final frontier': China just showed off its world-beating EV battery tech — as CATL, BYD and Sunwoda battle to take charging times down to only five minutes to remove the last barrier to electric adoption TechRadar

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Jensen Huang lauds China's AI models as Nvidia gears up to resume chip exports CNBC

Huawei invested in 60-plus China chip firms since US sanctions Nikkei Asia