Gao Yang, co-founder of the embodied intelligence company Spirit AI, offers some advice: Take a robot that claims to fold ...

Three golden hours onstage, and a whole economy is set in motion. Artists, managers, promoters, local governments, platforms, ...

China’s semiconductor investment reached RMB 455 billion in H1 2025, down 9.8% YoY, with wafer production accounting for 51% of total spending. While chip design and testing declined sharply, ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is co-founding Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup positioned to rival Elon Musk’s Neuralink. OpenAI is backing the venture through a USD 250 million fundraise at an ...

Perplexity has offered USD 34.5 billion to acquire Google’s Chrome browser in a move aimed at supporting antitrust remedies under review by a US judge. The AI startup pledged to maintain Chromium and ...

Tencent Music reported Q2 2025 revenue of RMB 8.44 billion, up 17.9% YoY, with net profit rising 43.2% to RMB 2.41 billion. Music subscription revenue grew 17.1%, while ARPPU rose to RMB 11.7. Paid ...

At that same summit, Genspark was mentioned repeatedly, alongside Manus, one of the first AI agents to gain widespread ...

Leapmotor led Chinese EV startups in export volume from January to July 2025 with 24,980 units and topped domestic deliveries for five straight months, reaching 50,129 in July. A ship carrying over ...

Pony.ai posted Q2 2025 revenue of USD 21.5 million, up 76% YoY, as robotaxi fare revenue tripled and licensing income surged. Gross margin rose to 16.1%, but net loss widened to USD 53.3 million due ...

China’s coffee and tea chains saw sales gains last week from store expansion and autumn drink launches. Chagee’s seasonal sales jumped 200%, CoCo sold 4.1 million cups in a day, and Naixue’s delivery ...

Taobao Shangou reportedly exceeded 100 million daily orders from August 7–9, briefly surpassing Meituan amid tea-themed campaigns and heavy subsidies. Meituan still led in fulfilled orders and shifted ...

Costello said Australia was an ideal test market on Chinese automakers’ “path to global sales dominance.” With no domestic ...