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Thursday 27 November 2025
China's tech giants 'BAT' invest billions to debunk AI bubble claims
China's leading tech giants, Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent, known collectively as "BAT", have committed massive capital expenditures totaling hundreds of billions of CNY to expand AI...
Thursday 27 November 2025
Pentagon flags Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD as military-linked companies
The Pentagon has concluded that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Baidu Inc., and BYD Co. should be added to its Section 1260H list of companies that aid the Chinese military, according...
Thursday 27 November 2025
Alibaba sees no AI bubble in 3 years, may boost capital spending
Alibaba reported strong cloud revenue growth for the quarter ending September 30, 2025, with CNY39.8 billion (approx. US$5.6 billion) in sales, up 34% year-over-year, and external...
Friday 21 November 2025
'Qianwen': Alibaba's answer to ChatGPT
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has formally entered the global consumer-facing AI market, announcing the public beta launch of the Qianwen App, a personal AI assistant built on the company's...
Friday 21 November 2025
Alibaba rebrands AI app as Qwen to challenge ChatGPT
Alibaba has revamped its AI mobile application under the new name "Qwen," aiming to compete head-to-head with OpenAI's ChatGPT by combining shopping, maps, and other functionalities...
Monday 17 November 2025
Alibaba denies US national security claims; China embassy calls allegations baseless
Alibaba has been accused by the US government of providing data and technical support to China's military, posing a threat to American national security. Both Alibaba and the Chinese...
Friday 14 November 2025
China's supernode boom sends warning to Nvidia

Since Huawei debuted the CloudMatrix 384 (CM384) in mid-2025, China's supernode race has taken centre stage in the global AI infrastructure...

Wednesday 12 November 2025
Silicon Valley startups turn to Chinese AI models amid performance and cost benefits
Several Silicon Valley startups and venture capitalists are increasingly adopting Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) models for their products and services, citing practical advantages...
Monday 3 November 2025
China's AI app users hit 700 million as most native apps lose ground
China's artificial intelligence (AI) mobile app sector has surpassed 700 million monthly active users (MAUs), yet a majority of AI-native apps are facing significant user losses,...
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Huawei Cloud on the back foot in China's AI race
Huawei Cloud is navigating one of its most turbulent periods yet. Confronted by internal and external headwinds—from a disciplinary probe and sweeping restructuring to a shrinking...
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Alibaba Cloud's price cuts widen global reach, deepen China's AI cloud duopoly
As China's AI cloud competition intensifies, Alibaba Cloud has introduced new price cuts across overseas markets to accelerate its global expansion, extending the "dual-giant" rivalry...
Monday 27 October 2025
As Huawei stumbles, ByteDance quietly rewrites China’s AI cloud order
Huawei Cloud CEO Zhang Ping'an and several top executives were recently demoted and had their salaries reduced, officially due to "performance falsification." The punishment, however,...
Wednesday 22 October 2025
China's AI glasses are prototypes no more: Alibaba, Baidu just made them a market
The AI wave shows no sign of slowing, and AI glasses have become the next frontier where technology meets wearables, following smartphones and wireless earbuds. As of late 2025, China's...
Wednesday 22 October 2025
China's genAI users double in 1H25 amid domestic dominance
China's generative artificial intelligence (AI) sector experienced rapid expansion in the first half of 2025, with the number of generative AI users reaching 515 million, representing...
Friday 17 October 2025
Alibaba Cloud deepens Middle East bet with new AI-powered Dubai data center
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud unit of Alibaba Group, has opened its second data center in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — its first in nearly a decade — as the Chinese tech...