AIibaba Focuses on Agentic Commerce as AI Spending Balloons
Alibaba is focusing on agentic commerce innovations as it spends heavily on artificial intelligence. The Chinese tech giant…
Alibaba Overtakes Google and Meta With 3 Billion AI Downloads
Open-weight models from China’s Alibaba have reportedly become the world’s top artificial intelligence offerings. The company’s models have…
Chinese tech firms join global race to reinvent smartphones for AI era | Tech News
ZTE Corp. showcased for the first time a lineup of co-designed smartphones with built-in AI services, joining…
How Hong Kong is fighting to redefine its future with an institutional moat, wealth surge
For decades, warnings of Hong Kong’s terminal decline have arrived in periodic waves. When Stephen Roach, the former…
Wang Yi warns Marco Rubio to approach Taiwan affairs with ‘utmost caution’
China’s foreign minister Wang Yi warned the US to approach Taiwan affairs with “utmost caution” in a call…
Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code
China’s Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic’s programming tool Claude Code, starting on July 10, according to…
As China’s tech firms adapt to AI era, workers worry they’ll be ‘optimised’ out of a job
When a friend checked in on a Meituan employee late last month to see if he had survived…
China vows to seek tariff cuts with US while decrying its ‘malicious’ trade acts
Days after imposing fresh restrictions on dozens of American firms in response to earlier US actions, Beijing has…
US-China Trade War Escalates With New Bans
China’s Commerce and Finance ministries placed ten US defense-linked companies under a dual-use export ban and barred 46…
China’s US envoy calls for 10-fold rise in tariff-free trade under joint board
Chinese ambassador to the United States Xie Feng on Wednesday proposed to increase the limit of tariff-free goods…
Ant International powers new e-wallet in cash-heavy Mexico with fintech giant Clip
Ant International, the Singapore-based affiliate of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, has partnered with Mexico’s Clip to launch…
Before Elon Musk’s SpaceX, these were the world’s 5 largest IPOs
This is part of a series on the global impact of SpaceX’s historic IPO, tracing how mainland Chinese…