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Friday 6 November 2026
Huawei, Alibaba among 20 Chinese tech firms confronting AI agent security, algorithmic exploitation
The 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, which opened on November 4, brought AI agent governance into focus, with leading Chinese technology companies seeking common standards...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Apple opens AI beta in China with Qwen-integrated Siri
Apple has opened testing of its China-specific Apple Intelligence service with the iOS 27.3 developer beta released on November 4, integrating Alibaba's Qwen model into Siri. The full...
Monday 2 November 2026
China's self-improving AI advances towards AGI, but Z.ai founder warns of limits and risks
Z.ai co-founder Tang Jie has identified recursive self-improvement (RSI) as a critical pathway towards artificial general intelligence (AGI), arguing that AI systems capable of improving...
Friday 30 October 2026
Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance reportedly seek 10-year DRAM deals
Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance are reportedly seeking long-term server DRAM supply agreements with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, with some requests extending through 2035, as...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Alibaba wins injunction over Pentagon rule targeting shared lobbying firms
A US federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction ordering the federal government not to deny Defense Department contracts to companies simply because they share lobbying firms...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
How ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent are testing the boundaries of US AI chip restrictions
Chinese tech giants ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have collectively ordered more than 3 million units of Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards, representing a total value exceeding...
Tuesday 20 October 2026
Alibaba's XuanTie tops 6 billion RISC-V chip shipments, expands into AI servers with C950
Cumulative shipments of chips incorporating Alibaba DAMO Academy's RISC-V processor intellectual property (IP), branded XuanTie, have surpassed 6 billion, marking a milestone for the...
Friday 16 October 2026
MediaTek ASIC deal with ByteDance would expand data center push
ByteDance is in advanced talks with MediaTek to purchase custom data center chips, with the companies potentially reaching an agreement soon, according to people familiar with the...
Thursday 15 October 2026
AI agents in suspected Tencent Cloud sandbox target Alibaba’s Amap mapping service
An international AI research team has detected a fleet of more than a dozen AI agents operating in a suspected Tencent Cloud infrastructure sandbox and repeatedly attempting to penetrate...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
China's AI revenue gap with US exposes deeper monetisation divide
China's leading artificial intelligence companies are gaining users and global recognition, but their commercial returns remain far behind those of US rivals. The growing disparity...
Thursday 1 October 2026
OpenAI claims to thwart model distillation attack tied to Moonshot
OpenAI said it detected and blocked an organized adversarial distillation attack, with some activity linked to Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI. The company said it first spotted the...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
ByteDance makes up a fifth of China's AI data center capacity amid growing buildout
ByteDance occupies around a fifth of data center capacity in China, according to a recent report. This makes the company the largest customer for rented compute in the country at a...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Googlebook, QwenBook bring agentic AI to the PC system layer, opening new chip opportunities

Qualcomm unveiled no new PC chips at Snapdragon Summit 2026, but its PC strategy remained firmly in focus.

Thursday 24 September 2026
Alibaba Cloud accelerates AI infrastructure buildout with 20GW target, eight-market expansion

AI adoption is accelerating, prompting global cloud providers to step up data center investment. Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing...

Thursday 24 September 2026
Alibaba Zhenwu V900 joins Huawei Ascend 960 in race to fill Nvidia's China AI compute gap
Alibaba has formally unveiled its self-developed Zhenwu V900 AI chip at the 2026 Apsara Conference, with CEO Eddie Wu describing the T-Head Semiconductor-designed processor as "China's...