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Wednesday 30 September 2026
China's battery race enters post-scale era: Beijing shifts focus to solid-state and quality
One of the most pronounced factors behind China's ferocious rise in the global technology landscape has been its unparalleled strength in the EV sector, where fierce competition over...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Interview: iFLYTEK Medical sees clinical integration as key to healthcare AI expansion in South Korea
Xunfei Healthcare (iFLYTEK Medical), the healthcare AI arm of China's iFlytek, is using its Spark Medical Large Model to support diagnosis and medical record generation while tackling...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Samsung SDI targets AI data centers with cylindrical LFP batteries and fire-propagation safeguards
Samsung SDI is accelerating its push into the artificial intelligence (AI) data center battery market, unveiling, for the first time, a cylindrical lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery...
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
Tatung pivots to AI infrastructure integration
Amid continued debate over AI, demand for computing power keeps climbing. Tatung Co. on September 30 unveiled its AI infrastructure solution, "TTG AIDC CUBE," at a launch event titled...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Tatung targets 180-day AI data center deployment
To showcase its competitiveness in AI infrastructure, Tatung Group on September 30 held the "Power Ready for AI" forum and unveiled a modular AI data center (AIDC) built around the...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Jensen Huang, Lisa Su join Tsinghua University advisory board, putting AI chip leaders closer to Beijing

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su have joined the advisory board of Tsinghua University's School of Economics and...

Wednesday 30 September 2026
China's generative AI user base tops 700 million, driving adoption into manufacturing and humanoid robots
Generative AI adoption in China continues to expand. The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said in its 2026 Generative AI Application Development Report, released on...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
DeepSeek brings software tools to Huawei's Ascend 950 to take on Nvidia
DeepSeek is bringing more of the software used to develop its AI models to Huawei Technologies' Ascend 950 processors, deepening cooperation as Chinese technology companies seek to...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Geely-NIO deal signals consolidation in China's fragmented EV battery-swapping market
A new partnership between Zhejiang Geely Holding Group and NIO in electric vehicle (EV) battery swapping is signaling potential consolidation in China's fragmented market. With multiple...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Magnesium prices fall below aluminum as EV makers look to cut weight
Automakers looking to cut the weight of electric vehicles (EVs) to extend driving range have another reason to consider magnesium alloys: magnesium ingots are now cheaper than aluminum...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Jensen Huang rejects AI doomsday framing, calls safety an engineering problem
As warnings about catastrophic AI risks intensify, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is making a different case: AI safety should be treated as an engineering challenge, not a justification...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Chinese EV tech is set to challenge US market barriers over time
The Washington summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping did not produce the speculated auto deal that would have allowed Chinese automakers to manufacture vehicles in the US. While...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Inside Anthropic's multi-billion-dollar loop: how circular financing powers the AI boom
As Anthropic prepares to ask public markets to back its expansion, confidential IPO filing details seen by Reuters reveal how heavily the AI developer relies on a small group...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Tesla secures US$30B credit package to fuel AI and robot capex race
Tesla disclosed on September 29 that it has arranged US$30 billion in new loans and credit facilities as it ramps up investment in AI and robotics, according to a regulatory filing...