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Thursday 16 July 2026
DeepSeek eyes US$70 billion valuation and Shanghai IPO as Apple Intelligence enters China

DeepSeek is preparing a new fundraising round and a possible Shanghai listing as surging computing costs force one of China's best-known...

Thursday 16 July 2026
Anthropic eyes autumn IPO to beat OpenAI and DeepSeek to public markets
Anthropic PBC is lining up investor meetings ahead of a potential mega-IPO that could value the Claude maker at US$1 trillion or more, a move that would let it beat both OpenAI and...
Wednesday 15 July 2026
China's AI labs are exporting innovation back to Silicon Valley, claims Linux Foundation CTO

After an eight-day trip through Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou, Linux Foundation Global AI CTO Matt White published a detailed account...

Wednesday 15 July 2026
CATL redraws AI ambitions with DeepSeek, VNET and an energy-first strategy

CATL is rapidly expanding into AI infrastructure. Through strategic investments in DeepSeek, data centres and power systems, the company...

Tuesday 14 July 2026
US chases AI talent abroad as China strengthens its homegrown pipeline

The US can no longer close its artificial-intelligence talent gap with China through visa curbs or export controls alone, a new Hoover...

Monday 13 July 2026
Tencent seeks control of Manus after China blocks Meta's US$2 billion AI deal

Tencent is in talks to become the largest shareholder in Manus, leading a proposed buyback of the AI agent startup after Chinese regulators...

Thursday 9 July 2026
What China's rumored limited reopening to Nvidia's H200 implies for US-China chip contest and Beijing's drive for self-reliance
China's rumored tentative plan to allow a handful of its largest artificial intelligence (AI) companies to purchase a small number of Nvidia H200 chips has implications that extend...
Wednesday 1 July 2026
DeepSeek V4 introduces utility-style AI pricing in shift beyond China's LLM price war
DeepSeek will launch the official version of its V4 large language model (LLM) in mid-July alongside peak and off-peak API pricing, prompting debate among developers. By doubling peak-hour...
Tuesday 23 June 2026
Microsoft's Satya Nadella warns against AI profits being absorbed by just a few companies
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned against allowing only a handful of companies to economically profit from the new AI era. In an interview with Bloomberg, he critiqued the...
Monday 22 June 2026
Microsoft considers DeepSeek as OpenAI costs mount

Microsoft is reportedly considering introducing a fine-tuned version of the Chinese open-source model DeepSeek V4 into its enterprise...

Wednesday 17 June 2026
Commentary: US delays DeepSeek blacklist, exposing AI export-control dilemma
The US has held back from adding Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, memory chipmaker CXMT, and more than 100 other entities to a key trade blacklist, underscoring Washington's struggle to...
Wednesday 17 June 2026
Inside DeepSeek's US$7.4 billion funding raise: China's AI champion keeps investors close and control closer
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has closed its first external funding round, raising more than CNY50 billion (approx. US$7.4 billion) in a deal that values the large-language model developer...
Saturday 13 June 2026
DeepSeek hiring points to AI infrastructure ambitions beyond rented compute
DeepSeek's hiring activity is drawing almost as much attention as its model releases, with roles for internet data center (IDC) design and planning engineers, senior data center operations...
Wednesday 10 June 2026
Chinese AI startup StepFun seeks US$12 billion valuation in Hong Kong IPO
Chinese artificial-intelligence (AI) startup StepFun is preparing to file for a Hong Kong initial public offering as early as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter,...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
DeepSeek's pricing move could redistribute value across AI hardware market
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek said it will permanently cut the API price of its flagship model by 75% from June 1, prompting debate across the global AI industry. Amazon AWS said the...