https://www.scmp.com/rss/320663/feed The latest big tech news on Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook. en https://assets-v2.i-scmp.com/production/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Iris Deng Iris Deng Huawei Technologies is making rapid progress in rolling out a new breed of advanced chip based on its self-developed Tau Scaling Law, with the Chinese company set to adopt the processors across the newly released Mate 90 smartphone series. The roll-out marks another step forward in the Chinese tech giant’s push to overcome stringent US export curbs, which has seen Huawei rewire its smartphone business to run on home-grown technology. Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, Huawei consumer... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3369400/huawei-steps-tau-chip-roll-out-mate-xt-2-track-1-million-sales?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3369400/huawei-steps-tau-chip-roll-out-mate-xt-2-track-1-million-sales?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Oct 2026 03:00:08 +0000 Chong Ming Lee Chong Ming Lee The US artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has warned of the potential danger posed by Chinese firm Z.ai’s GLM-5.3, with the open-weight model showing a troubling mix of powerful hacking abilities but weak safety constraints. GLM-5.3 almost matches Anthropic’s most advanced model in terms of its cyber capabilities, but has far weaker safeguards, meaning there is greater potential for the model to be co-opted by bad actors, according to the San Francisco-based firm. In a report released on... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3369354/anthropic-raises-alarm-over-elite-hacking-ability-chinese-firm-zais-glm-53?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3369354/anthropic-raises-alarm-over-elite-hacking-ability-chinese-firm-zais-glm-53?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:08 +0000 Emma Ma Emma Ma Apple has claimed the top spot in China’s smartphone market following the release of its iPhone 18 Pro series, giving a potential boost to a sluggish handset market weighed down by weak consumer demand and soaring component costs. Sales of the new Pro models in their first three days after launching on September 18 were 12 per cent higher than sales of the iPhone 17 Pro line-up during its entire first week last year, according to a report published on Wednesday by Counterpoint Research. That... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3369323/apple-leads-china-smartphone-sales-after-launch-iphone-18-pro-can-momentum-last?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3369323/apple-leads-china-smartphone-sales-after-launch-iphone-18-pro-can-momentum-last?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:45:05 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chief Lisa Su have joined an influential advisory board at a prestigious Chinese university, placing the two US artificial intelligence chip leaders in a high-level forum known for connecting global executives with senior Chinese officials. Huang and Su were among three new members appointed to the advisory board of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management (SEM), alongside Marc Pictet, senior managing partner of Swiss wealth and assets... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3369237/nvidia-and-amd-chiefs-join-tsinghua-advisory-board-us-china-chip-tensions-persist?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3369237/nvidia-and-amd-chiefs-join-tsinghua-advisory-board-us-china-chip-tensions-persist?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:35:01 +0000 Chong Ming Lee,Minxiao Chang Chong Ming Lee,Minxiao Chang US chip giant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to acquire World Labs, the artificial intelligence start-up founded by renowned Chinese-American computer scientist Li Fei-Fei, for US$8.2 billion in an all-stock deal, as the company steps up its rivalry with Nvidia. The acquisition, expected to close by the end of this year, would integrate World Labs’ research team and spatial-intelligence model expertise into AMD, according to an announcement on Monday. Li, a Stanford University professor... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3369141/amd-acquires-godmother-ai-li-fei-feis-start-battle-nvidia-intensifies?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3369141/amd-acquires-godmother-ai-li-fei-feis-start-battle-nvidia-intensifies?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:30:18 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Alibaba Group Holding has become an official technology and cloud partner of NBA team Brooklyn Nets, as the tech giant pushes for a deeper presence in the sports industry. The collaboration was announced on Monday under a multi-year strategic partnership between Alibaba and Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, the parent company of the basketball team. It would also see Alibaba become Brooklyn Nets’ official jersey patch sponsor ahead of the basketball team’s 60th anniversary season, according to a... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3369124/alibaba-deepens-sports-tech-push-new-brooklyn-nets-partnership?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3369124/alibaba-deepens-sports-tech-push-new-brooklyn-nets-partnership?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:24:03 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu ByteDance accounts for roughly one-fifth of China’s delivered data centre capacity, making the TikTok owner the country’s largest tenant and a main driver of its artificial intelligence buildout, according to new estimates by research firm SemiAnalysis. The estimate comes from the firm’s tracking of more than 1,000 facilities in China operated by over 60 companies. ByteDance rents nearly all of its data centre footprint, SemiAnalysis said. Its AI products include Doubao, an assistant that... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3369056/bytedance-grabs-one-fifth-chinas-data-centre-capacity-ai-drives-infrastructure-boom?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3369056/bytedance-grabs-one-fifth-chinas-data-centre-capacity-ai-drives-infrastructure-boom?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:00:41 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Late last year, Zhang Xuan’s small beef noodle joint in Shanghai suddenly began seeing a dramatic surge in orders. Sales over the past few months have been 50 to 60 per cent higher than normal, he estimates. The driver? The new Street Stars feature on Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding’s Amap mapping app, which listed Zhang’s eatery as the fourth best restaurant in Shanghai’s Changning district. Prominently displayed on Amap’s main page, the system uses artificial intelligence to rate... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368819/how-alibaba-using-ai-revamp-its-mapping-app-and-take-meituan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368819/how-alibaba-using-ai-revamp-its-mapping-app-and-take-meituan?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:00:08 +0000 Raymond Ma,Neil Denslow Raymond Ma,Neil Denslow Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump discussed artificial intelligence (AI) and Taiwan at the White House on Thursday as part of a state visit dominated by pageantry. On AI, Xi said that “the right thing to do is to draw on each other’s strengths, not guard against each other”, according to a statement from the Chinese foreign ministry. He also backed continued dialogue about risks, joint efforts to prevent misuse and keeping AI under human control. Trump earlier said on... https://www.scmp.com/plus/news/china/diplomacy/article/3368799/xi-white-house-trade-war-truce-extension-golden-week-travel?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/news/china/diplomacy/article/3368799/xi-white-house-trade-war-truce-extension-golden-week-travel?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:00:10 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow If the American guests seated at the head table with President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump at Thursday’s White House state dinner were any indication, Washington now views its relationship with Beijing largely through the prism of technology. Analysts said the seating arrangement underscored how tech industry titans driving the global AI infrastructure boom were pushing to draw the two economic superpowers closer together. Sitting alongside Xi, Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan, Trump... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3368774/xi-trump-dinner-puts-us-tech-titans-spotlight-what-does-it-mean-china-ties?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3368774/xi-trump-dinner-puts-us-tech-titans-spotlight-what-does-it-mean-china-ties?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:00:17 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen The artificial intelligence road map presented at its flagship Apsara Conference this week showcased a pragmatic pivot by Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding, offering a clearer path to monetisation despite a sharp escalation in capital expenditure, analysts said. The conference, which ran from Tuesday to Thursday under the theme “Intelligence goes beyond”, highlighted “Alibaba’s disciplined execution across its full-stack AI ecosystem”, said Cathy Chan, an analyst at CCB International. She... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368650/alibaba-unveils-pragmatic-ai-road-map-drive-monetisation-infrastructure-efficiency?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368650/alibaba-unveils-pragmatic-ai-road-map-drive-monetisation-infrastructure-efficiency?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:30:22 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud business unit, is set to launch data centres in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands over the next 12 months, speeding up an overseas push as it seeks to win enterprise customers through its “full stack AI capabilities” spanning chips, cloud infrastructure and multimodal models. The first of these new data centres will open in the Netherlands in October. The cloud unit will also add to existing data centre capacity in Malaysia, Germany, the United Arab... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368454/alibaba-cloud-set-open-new-data-centres-europe-next-year-overseas-push-speeds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368454/alibaba-cloud-set-open-new-data-centres-europe-next-year-overseas-push-speeds?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:00:10 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen Alibaba Group Holding has introduced what it called China’s most powerful artificial intelligence chip and teased plans to train an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, as top executives reaffirmed the tech giant’s ambition to pursue artificial superintelligence (ASI). Speaking at the company’s annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou on Tuesday, group chairman Joe Tsai highlighted Alibaba’s commitment to building end-to-end capabilities. “Alibaba is firmly investing in building full-stack AI... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368338/alibaba-teases-10-trillion-parameter-model-debuts-chinas-most-powerful-ai-chip?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368338/alibaba-teases-10-trillion-parameter-model-debuts-chinas-most-powerful-ai-chip?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:59:40 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has revamped its online payments operations by creating a new business group for Alipay, as it sharpens its artificial intelligence focus on “agentic commerce” to drive new growth. Ant, an Alibaba Group Holding affiliate, merged its Digital Payment Business Group, Alipay Business Group and Zhima Credit Business Group into a new business unit dedicated to Alipay, according to an internal letter from CEO Cyril Han Xinyi on Monday, as reported by Chinese media outlet... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368325/ant-group-consolidates-alipay-operations-big-bet-ai-agentic-commerce?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368325/ant-group-consolidates-alipay-operations-big-bet-ai-agentic-commerce?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:41:25 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang The United States and China’s agreement to establish an official AI dialogue, including a proposed threat-notification system, marks a pragmatic step towards crisis prevention in their tech war, even as deep-seated divisions over chip access, model distillation and market dominance threaten to limit its impact, analysts said. Announced following high-level talks in New York on Sunday between US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Vice-Premier He Lifeng,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3368281/ai-safety-fears-mount-can-us-china-hotline-prevent-global-crisis?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3368281/ai-safety-fears-mount-can-us-china-hotline-prevent-global-crisis?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:00:08 +0000 Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Chinese and US negotiators made progress on artificial intelligence (AI) and trade ahead of President Xi Jinping’s visit to the White House later this week. “We had a very successful engagement with the Chinese on trade and AI,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters following Sunday’s eight-hour-long negotiations at JPMorgan Chase’s head office in New York. The talks had a “good atmosphere” and were “not bad”, said China’s Li Chenggang. Li’s promotion to international trade... https://www.scmp.com/plus/news/china/diplomacy/article/3368245/us-china-agree-ai-dialogue-ahead-trump-xi-summit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/news/china/diplomacy/article/3368245/us-china-agree-ai-dialogue-ahead-trump-xi-summit?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:01:49 +0000 Chong Ming Lee Chong Ming Lee Neither Beijing nor Washington can win the race for artificial intelligence dominance without relying on other countries, a Bank of America analyst said ahead of this week’s high-stakes bilateral summit, citing deeply entangled global tech supply chains. While China’s advantages had emerged in areas like power grids and manufacturing equipment, the country remained reliant on overseas suppliers for advanced chips, memory and some high-end materials, said Matty Zhao, co-head of China equity at... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368219/neither-us-nor-china-can-win-ai-race-alone-bofa-analyst-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368219/neither-us-nor-china-can-win-ai-race-alone-bofa-analyst-says?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:00:13 +0000 Coco Feng Coco Feng When Chinese artificial intelligence developers want to train their next-generation frontier models, they all face the same daunting wall: they cannot legally buy the world’s most powerful AI chips. However, the country’s tech giants and start-ups have still managed to quietly keep pace with global rivals. Their secret is an elusive workaround: moving heavy training workloads across borders through the cloud. By setting up proxy entities in foreign jurisdictions, domestic firms have for years... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368011/us-weighs-restrictions-cloud-computing-how-will-chinas-ai-sector-adapt?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368011/us-weighs-restrictions-cloud-computing-how-will-chinas-ai-sector-adapt?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:00:26 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng Chinese action camera maker Insta360 is deepening its US footprint with a flagship store opening in New York as it navigates escalating price competition with DJI and industry-wide memory cost pressures. The Chinese GoPro rival was slated to plant its flag in the heart of Times Square with its first flagship retail store in the US on Saturday, a marquee launch as the firm looked to “leap to the next stage of growth”, co-founder Max Richter said. “The US market plays a very important role for us... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368101/chinas-gopro-rival-insta360-opens-first-us-flagship-store-new-yorks-times-square?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368101/chinas-gopro-rival-insta360-opens-first-us-flagship-store-new-yorks-times-square?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:07 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, Damo Academy, has open-sourced an artificial intelligence model capable of identifying nearly 150 abdominal conditions – including cancers – by reading computed tomography (CT) scans, marking the latest step in the firm’s growing medical AI efforts. The vision-language model, called Damo Radar, was designed to analyse contrast-enhanced CT scans covering 18 abdominal organs and identify a broad range of diseases and other abnormalities, such as malignant... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368055/alibaba-open-sources-medical-ai-model-can-detect-cancer-and-nearly-150-conditions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368055/alibaba-open-sources-medical-ai-model-can-detect-cancer-and-nearly-150-conditions?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:30:05 +0000 Chong Ming Lee Chong Ming Lee Chinese artificial intelligence models from seven major developers combined generate only about 10 per cent of the revenue reported for OpenAI and Anthropic, even as investor enthusiasm remains intense, according to US-based research firm Rhodium Group. The Chinese AI models earned an estimated US$10.7 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR) from March to August, a fraction of the more than US$100 billion combined for OpenAI and Anthropic, according to the Rhodium report published on... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367991/top-chinese-ai-models-make-10-openai-anthropic-revenue-despite-high-valuations-report?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367991/top-chinese-ai-models-make-10-openai-anthropic-revenue-despite-high-valuations-report?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:06 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao As market fears mount over waning Big Tech spending and calls to slow down frontier artificial intelligence development, Asia-Pacific semiconductor foundries are better positioned to withstand a potential downturn in AI investment than other tech hardware firms in the region, according to S&P Global Ratings. In a report published on Thursday, the rating agency said it had stress tested four key Asia-Pacific sectors – foundries, memory manufacturers, cooling component suppliers and original... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367973/chip-foundries-better-insulated-ai-slowdown-asia-pacific-tech-peers-sp-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367973/chip-foundries-better-insulated-ai-slowdown-asia-pacific-tech-peers-sp-says?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:00:09 +0000 Iris Deng,Howard Liu Iris Deng,Howard Liu Huawei Technologies expects a major domestic shift towards its artificial intelligence computing infrastructure for model training next year, as its Ascend processors gain ground on Nvidia in China despite supply constraints, according to rotating chairman Eric Xu Zhijun. “I believe that starting from next year, a lot of the AI model training will be based on the SuperPoD or SuperCluster based on Ascend 950DT,” Xu told reporters during the Huawei Connect 2026 conference in Shanghai on... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367955/china-see-major-shift-huawei-ai-model-training-2027-rotating-chair?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367955/china-see-major-shift-huawei-ai-model-training-2027-rotating-chair?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:59:31 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled a new computing architecture that it says could make as many as 1 million processors work as a single computer, putting its UnifiedBus interconnect technology at the centre of an ambitious effort to rethink how large data centres are built. The Peerium Computing Architecture combines nested parallelism, unified memory addressing and peer-to-peer interconnect, with UnifiedBus serving as the high-speed fabric connecting processors, memory, storage and... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367882/how-huawei-plans-bypass-us-chip-curbs-its-new-unifiedbus-technology?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367882/how-huawei-plans-bypass-us-chip-curbs-its-new-unifiedbus-technology?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:07 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang China’s leading memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is gaining ground among local smartphone vendors, with some of its high-end chips finding their way into flagship Chinese handsets as vendors push into the premium market. ZTE-backed Nubia’s NaviX Ultra that went on sale on Wednesday used LPDDR5X DRAM chips from CXMT, the companies announced earlier this month. The handset was dubbed the Nubia Doubao phone due to its integration of TikTok parent ByteDance’s Doubao artificial... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367853/once-reliant-samsung-and-sk-hynix-chinese-smartphone-makers-are-turning-cxmt?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367853/once-reliant-samsung-and-sk-hynix-chinese-smartphone-makers-are-turning-cxmt?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:00:11 +0000 Howard Liu,Iris Deng,Coco Feng Howard Liu,Iris Deng,Coco Feng Huawei Technologies said on Thursday that it would launch its next-generation artificial intelligence chip in the first quarter of 2027, moving the target launch forward by nine months as the firm aggressively expands its ecosystem amid China’s self-sufficiency push. David Wang Tao, rotating and acting chairman for Huawei, said on Thursday that the Ascend 960DT chip, an AI chip designed for model training, “with performance doubling”, would be “ready in the first quarter of 2027”, three quarters... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367832/huawei-quickens-ai-chip-pace-promises-next-entrant-3-quarters-early?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367832/huawei-quickens-ai-chip-pace-promises-next-entrant-3-quarters-early?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:36:28 +0000 Howard Liu,Iris Deng Howard Liu,Iris Deng Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled its latest Atlas 960 SuperPoD computing cluster and an upgraded version of its UnifiedBus interconnect technology, key components of the Chinese tech giant’s strategy to build advanced artificial intelligence systems despite US semiconductor-related restrictions. At the Huawei Connect 2026 conference in Shanghai, the Shenzhen-based firm introduced near-packaged optics (NPOs) – a placement structure enabling higher speeds and lower energy use – to the... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367796/huawei-unveils-latest-tech-boost-ai-power-push-break-chinas-nvidia-reliance?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367796/huawei-unveils-latest-tech-boost-ai-power-push-break-chinas-nvidia-reliance?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:26:07 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao China is bracing for a potential massive sell-off of a high-profile artificial intelligence chip stock on Thursday, when a lock-up period affecting 14 million shares in MetaX Integrated Circuits is set to expire. Analysts expect MetaX to face “significant selling pressure” when the restricted shares are released for trading, after the expiry of a similar lock-up period for shares in fellow AI chip firm Moore Threads last week sparked an avalanche of sales that wiped nearly 49 billion yuan... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367745/chinas-ai-chip-stocks-face-crucial-test-metax-lock-period-expires?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367745/chinas-ai-chip-stocks-face-crucial-test-metax-lock-period-expires?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:25:00 +0000 Wency Chen,Ben Jiang Wency Chen,Ben Jiang China’s Moonshot AI has attracted global investor interest spanning Europe, Asia and the Middle East, people familiar with the matter say, as international capital scrambles for access to Chinese frontier artificial intelligence labs, betting on their high-stakes race against US rivals. The Beijing-based developer of the Kimi family of AI models has seen mounting interest from overseas players ranging from European investment firms to Middle East family offices, with some seeking indirect... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367723/kimi-creator-moonshot-draws-global-investors-seeking-top-tier-chinese-ai-developers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367723/kimi-creator-moonshot-draws-global-investors-seeking-top-tier-chinese-ai-developers?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:46:58 +0000 Minxiao Chang Minxiao Chang China is surging ahead of the US in consumer AI adoption as technology giants like Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group Holding embed artificial intelligence directly into popular everyday apps, even as American models lead in capability, according to Morgan Stanley. A survey conducted by the bank and published in a report on Monday showed that 80 per cent of Chinese respondents used AI for personal purposes at least weekly, compared with 54 per cent in the US. China’s generative AI user base grew... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367601/china-beating-us-consumer-ai-adoption-thanks-super-apps-morgan-stanley?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367601/china-beating-us-consumer-ai-adoption-thanks-super-apps-morgan-stanley?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:00:12 +0000 Minxiao Chang Minxiao Chang When generative artificial intelligence first swept through China’s technology sector, workers faced a clear directive from management: use AI and use it often. Consuming vast numbers of AI tokens – the basic unit of computing power needed to process text or write code – became a badge of honour, with companies often viewing a high token count as a sign that employees were productive and taking initiative. But those computing allowances are now being sharply rolled back as China’s leading... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367593/forget-ai-kpis-how-chinas-tech-giants-are-rationing-tokens-employees?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367593/forget-ai-kpis-how-chinas-tech-giants-are-rationing-tokens-employees?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:30:05 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Shanghai’s bustling riverfront has become the latest testing ground for urban logistics technology, with McDonald’s and Chinese food-delivery giant Meituan joining forces to launch the country’s first catering brand-exclusive drone-delivery route. Commencing operations last week, the new service allows visitors strolling or exercising along the scenic West Bund area in Shanghai’s Xuhui district to have their fast-food orders ‘airdropped’ directly to designated kiosks, according to a recent... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367482/cloudy-chance-big-macs-mcdonalds-and-meituan-launch-drone-route-shanghai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367482/cloudy-chance-big-macs-mcdonalds-and-meituan-launch-drone-route-shanghai?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:38:38 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US President Donald Trump on Sunday played down the need for his administration to check the development of artificial intelligence, saying he worried about ceding America’s edge over China in a global competition and that winning would help address the risks from the advancing technology. While acknowledging the need for some regulation, Trump provided no specifics about potential rules and attributed warnings about the technology moving too quickly and with little oversight to “negative... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3367374/trump-downplays-need-check-ai-development-says-he-unwilling-cede-edge-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3367374/trump-downplays-need-check-ai-development-says-he-unwilling-cede-edge-china?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:27:47 +0000 Chong Ming Lee Chong Ming Lee The US-China race for artificial intelligence dominance has entered a new phase: using AI to build better AI. Leading AI companies in the United States and China are increasingly focused on deploying advanced models to write code, design experiments, and develop training techniques that can be used to improve more powerful models. The ultimate goal is to achieve what the industry refers to as recursive self-improvement (RSI) – the creation of AI systems that can train themselves... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367237/us-and-china-are-racing-build-self-improving-ai-heres-whats-stake?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367237/us-and-china-are-racing-build-self-improving-ai-heres-whats-stake?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:10 +0000 Howard Liu,Minxiao Chang,Ann Cao Howard Liu,Minxiao Chang,Ann Cao The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has published its final decision on updates to its equipment authorisation rules, easing market anxiety over potential bans on Chinese optical transceivers. The rule, adopted in July and finalised on Friday, tightens authorisation requirements for devices containing certain hardware components made by entities on the Covered List – a US blacklist of foreign technology equipment and service providers deemed to pose an unacceptable risk to national... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367219/chinese-optical-transceiver-makers-dodge-us-ban-now-fcc-updates-rules?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367219/chinese-optical-transceiver-makers-dodge-us-ban-now-fcc-updates-rules?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:30:09 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Ant International, the overseas affiliate of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, is making a major bid to power the next phase of mobile payments: letting autonomous artificial intelligence agents handle your electronic wallet to make purchases. The company on Friday open-sourced its Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP) on GitHub, effectively putting it forward as a potential global technical standard for how AI agents securely pay for real-world goods. AMP was built onto Ant International’s existing... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367183/ant-international-let-ai-agents-shop-across-alipayhk-starryblu-kakaopay-and-toss?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367183/ant-international-let-ai-agents-shop-across-alipayhk-starryblu-kakaopay-and-toss?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:30:05 +0000 Chong Ming Lee,Xinmei Shen Chong Ming Lee,Xinmei Shen A flurry of cybersecurity breaches, internal whistle-blowing, and declining visibility into model safety has sparked fresh alarm over the US artificial intelligence boom, igniting calls from some experts to slow down development – even as critics warn that deceleration risks surrendering America’s technological lead to China. The mounting concerns come just weeks before President Xi Jinping and US leader Donald Trump are set to meet for a high-stakes summit in Washington. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367163/why-ai-experts-are-freaked-out-over-safety-fears-ahead-xi-trump-summit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367163/why-ai-experts-are-freaked-out-over-safety-fears-ahead-xi-trump-summit?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:00:10 +0000 Ann Cao,Iris Deng Ann Cao,Iris Deng The future of computing has arrived, according to China’s Huawei Technologies. The Shenzhen-based technology giant’s launch this week of the Mate XT 2 smartphone, its first commercial product powered by a processor with a novel architecture, is a public test of the Chinese tech giant’s claim to have invented a new chip design paradigm. It is also its first step to rewiring artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The phone’s chip, the Kirin 9050 Pro, is the first designed according to the... https://www.scmp.com/plus/tech/big-tech/article/3367153/novel-chip-huawei-phone-china-heads-computing-reset?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/tech/big-tech/article/3367153/novel-chip-huawei-phone-china-heads-computing-reset?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:05:57 +0000 Chong Ming Lee Chong Ming Lee DeepSeek has released its V4.1 Flash model, claiming it outperforms its previous flagship while cutting inference costs and boosting speeds – the latest salvo in China’s aggressive price-and-performance war. The Chinese artificial intelligence developer said on Thursday that V4.1 Flash used a new “Causal-Encoder-Decoder” architecture. While built on a massive 552 billion-parameter framework, it relies on a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) design. In traditional AI, every query runs through the entire... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367051/deepseek-says-new-flash-ai-model-beats-kimi-k3-cyber-coding-benchmarks?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367051/deepseek-says-new-flash-ai-model-beats-kimi-k3-cyber-coding-benchmarks?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:26:24 +0000 Coco Feng,Minxiao Chang Coco Feng,Minxiao Chang Apple’s long-awaited entry into the foldable smartphone market, the iPhone Duo, has drawn immediate attention in China over its eye-watering price tag and exclusive dual-eSIM design, as the American tech giant targets entrenched domestic rivals Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi. Unveiled on Wednesday, the iPhone Duo – Apple’s thinnest and most expensive flagship model yet – captured the attention of Chinese consumers with its smooth transition between inner and outer displays. By Thursday morning,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367021/apple-enters-crowded-foldable-smartphone-market-china-can-it-beat-huawei?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367021/apple-enters-crowded-foldable-smartphone-market-china-can-it-beat-huawei?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:13:25 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first-ever foldable smartphone, at its annual product launch event on Wednesday in Cupertino, California, following months of mounting anticipation. Presented by CEO John Ternus, the sleek, passport-style device stole the spotlight at the Apple Park event. Ternus, who took over from Tim Cook on September 1, said the handset would “redefine the experience of using a foldable phone”. Starting at US$1,999 – or HK$17,499 (US$2,231) if bought in Hong Kong – Apple’s... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366983/after-apples-launch-its-foldable-iphone-what-are-caveats-chinese-buyers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366983/after-apples-launch-its-foldable-iphone-what-are-caveats-chinese-buyers?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:11:38 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Alibaba Group Holding is giving users the ability to put artificial intelligence-powered “digital employees” to work within rival office platforms, opening a new competitive front against ByteDance and Tencent Holdings in enterprise AI. The latest version of the QoderWake tool, launched by Alibaba Cloud on Tuesday, allowed users to generate fully functioning workers using a single-line description of the required role, the company said. These digital workers could then be put to work within any... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366919/alibaba-sends-ai-digital-employees-work-rival-apps-bytedance-tencent?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366919/alibaba-sends-ai-digital-employees-work-rival-apps-bytedance-tencent?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:30:06 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen US cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated how artificial intelligence could help hijack WeChat accounts via unanswered voice calls, intensifying concerns about AI-driven cyber threats and prompting renewed calls for bilateral cooperation between the United States and China. US security firm Calif said on Tuesday that its AI system identified a critical flaw in Tencent Holdings’ widely used messaging and payments app in July. In just a little over a week, researchers developed WeWorm – an... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3366898/us-firm-used-ai-hijack-wechat-account-spurring-call-cyber-cooperation-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3366898/us-firm-used-ai-hijack-wechat-account-spurring-call-cyber-cooperation-china?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:01:12 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com is accelerating its push into robotics with a sweeping plan to automate its nationwide logistics network, while promising to retrain its vast workforce of couriers for technical roles as machines take over frontline duties. At an event in Beijing on Wednesday, the company’s logistics arm unveiled its industrial Wolf Robot series. Over the next five years, JD Logistics aimed to procure 3 million robots, 1 million unstaffed vehicles and 100,000 delivery drones to... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366884/jdcom-deploy-3-million-robots-fully-automate-logistics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366884/jdcom-deploy-3-million-robots-fully-automate-logistics?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:25:50 +0000 Chong Ming Lee,Xinmei Shen Chong Ming Lee,Xinmei Shen Chinese artificial intelligence companies Z.ai and MiniMax could remain loss-making through 2030 even as their revenues surge, underscoring the enormous cost of competing at the technological frontier, according to Macquarie Group’s head of Asia internet and software research Ellie Jiang. One reason cited was the expense required for the computing power to train and run frontier AI models. Jiang told the South China Morning Post on Tuesday that China’s compute crunch was two to three times more... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3366784/chinese-ai-firms-zai-and-minimax-could-remain-loss-making-until-2030-macquarie-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3366784/chinese-ai-firms-zai-and-minimax-could-remain-loss-making-until-2030-macquarie-says?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:33:07 +0000 Minxiao Chang Minxiao Chang Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek is embarking on what it calls an “unprecedented” hiring spree to overhaul back end systems severely strained by booming user demand and compute-heavy AI agents. Cui Tianyi, a former quantitative trading expert who joined DeepSeek in March to lead its Harness team, said in a social media post on Monday evening that the Hangzhou-based company was seeking to recruit around 150 senior back end engineers. According to Cui, the push was driven by rapid... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366740/deepseek-embarks-unprecedented-hiring-spree-it-overhauls-backend-systems?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366740/deepseek-embarks-unprecedented-hiring-spree-it-overhauls-backend-systems?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:30:37 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu Huawei Technologies’ latest flagship mobile processor is serving as a high-stakes test of whether the company can bypass US technology sanctions by layering circuits on top of each other to boost performance, according to analysts. The Shenzhen-based firm on Monday launched the Kirin 9050 Pro, the first commercial chip employing its LogicFolding architecture. The new strategy aims to squeeze greater computing power out of semiconductor designs without relying solely on the circuit-shrinking... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366669/huaweis-new-kirin-chip-puts-logic-folding-test-bigger-ambitions-ai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366669/huaweis-new-kirin-chip-puts-logic-folding-test-bigger-ambitions-ai?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:00:18 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng Tencent Holdings’ pivot from a core shareholder to a major creditor in Bilibili offers a clear window into how China’s Big Tech players are rebalancing portfolio risk while funding expensive artificial intelligence initiatives. The shift, executed through Bilibili’s proposed US$700 million convertible bond package announced on Friday, allows Tencent to lock in capital flexibility without severing ties with one of China’s largest online video platforms, according to analysts. Here is a look at... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366657/why-tencent-swapping-bilibili-equity-debt-and-what-ai-has-do-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366657/why-tencent-swapping-bilibili-equity-debt-and-what-ai-has-do-it?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:30:06 +0000 Coco Feng Coco Feng Huawei Technologies has unveiled its first smartphone powered by a next-generation mobile processor based on the company’s proprietary Tau Scaling Law, continuing its push to boost chip performance while reducing reliance on advanced foreign semiconductor equipment. Speaking at a launch event in Guangzhou on Monday, Richard Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei’s consumer business group, described the Kirin 9050 Pro as the company’s “most powerful Kirin chip ever”. The processor is based on Huawei’s... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3366650/huawei-unveils-new-trifold-smartphone-powered-tau-scaling-law-based-kirin-chip?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3366650/huawei-unveils-new-trifold-smartphone-powered-tau-scaling-law-based-kirin-chip?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:32:07 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu The massive gap in artificial intelligence spending between US and Chinese tech titans may not buy the advantage expected for American giants, as lower domestic costs and heavy state support allow Chinese firms to secure far more computing power per dollar, according to a new report by Moody’s Ratings. While US hyperscalers outspent their Chinese counterparts by a staggering margin, the physical gap in computing capacity was nowhere near as wide as those mega-budgets suggested, the report... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366407/punching-above-their-weight-how-chinas-ai-giants-stretch-each-dollar-compute-race?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366407/punching-above-their-weight-how-chinas-ai-giants-stretch-each-dollar-compute-race?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:00:07 +0000