Tech

Apple takes China’s smartphone battle house to house with 3-hour iPhone delivery

Apple is ramping up the fight for the Chinese market as rivals Huawei and Xiaomi pile on the pressure.

Bitcoin drops below US90,000ドル as AI worries sour risk appetite

The fall signals renewed market jitters after the historic crypto crash in October.

Nvidia builds location verification tech that could help fight chip smuggling

China’s top cybersecurity regulator has called Nvidia in for questioning about whether its products contain back doors.

Less hype, more hardware: SenseTime banks on multimodal AI to regain its edge

SenseTime may have slipped from the spotlight as one of China’s "AI dragons", but its tilt at multimodal, real-world AI hints at a comeback.

Chinese supercomputer maker Sugon and chip developer Hygon call off merger plans

The aborted merger dashes industry expectations for a major domestic ecosystem covering advanced processors and high-performance servers.

Power and data centres will put China ahead of US in the AI race, says investor

AI is now a race to build data centres and secure electricity, says investor Allen Zhu, who argues China’s energy push puts it ahead.

China’s Moore Threads to unveil AI chip road map to rival Nvidia’s CUDA system

Founder Zhang Jianzhong is expected to launch the firm’s next-generation AI chip architecture and MUSA platform road map in Beijing.

China’s Fosun Pharma unit strikes US2ドル.1 billion obesity drug deal with Pfizer

Yao Pharma’s deal with the US pharmaceutical giant underscores China’s growing role in global biotech licensing.

OpenAI names first chief of revenue as ChatGPT maker aims to make a profit

OpenAI is facing increased competition from rivals, including Google, which last month unleashed the latest version of its own AI assistant.

Alibaba creates new unit to push consumer use of its Qwen AI models

Significant organisational change underlines company’s determination to turn the Qwen chatbot into a ‘super app’.