https://www.scmp.com/rss/36/feed The latest technology news, reviews, gadgets, launches and products. en https://assets-v2.i-scmp.com/production/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Advertising partner Advertising partner [The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Huawei brought together nearly 100 industry experts and ecosystem partners at the HDD (Huawei Developer Day) HarmonyOS Ecosystem Executive Summit in Hong Kong on November 9, 2026, as regional enterprises increasingly collaborate to meet the surging demand for seamless outbound travel and lifestyle experiences across the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA). Held under the theme "Open Innovation · Mutual... https://www.scmp.com/presented/tech/topics/flexible-logistics-sme-growth/article/3373866/hong-kong-hosts-hdd-harmonyos-ecosystem-executive-summit-over-100-industry-leaders https://www.scmp.com/presented/tech/topics/flexible-logistics-sme-growth/article/3373866/hong-kong-hosts-hdd-harmonyos-ecosystem-executive-summit-over-100-industry-leaders Tue, 10 Nov 2026 06:10:46 +0000 Zoe SL Chan Zoe SL Chan Two mainland Chinese chip suppliers made sharply divergent trading debuts in Hong Kong on Tuesday after raising a combined HK$2.2 billion (US$280 million), underscoring investors’ selective appetite for semiconductor stocks despite a pickup in new listings. Suzhou Denglin Technology, the week’s largest listing, closed 7.7 per cent lower at HK$213 after raising HK$1.4 billion in its initial public offering (IPO). The graphics processing unit maker priced its shares at HK$231 – the bottom of its... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3373886/1-mainland-chinese-chip-ipo-soars-another-stumbles-busy-hong-kong-week https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3373886/1-mainland-chinese-chip-ipo-soars-another-stumbles-busy-hong-kong-week Tue, 10 Nov 2026 05:00:23 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen WuXi AppTec’s shares jumped on Tuesday after the Pentagon removed the company from a list of entities allegedly linked to the Chinese military, marking a win for the biotech service giant and raising hopes among other mainland firms challenging US blacklists. The US deputy secretary of defence decided to delist WuXi AppTec from its list of “Chinese military companies”, according to a notice published on the Federal Register on Tuesday. WuXi AppTec surged more than 6 per cent at the open in Hong... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3373875/chinese-biotech-giant-wuxi-apptecs-shares-jump-after-pentagon-blacklist-reversal https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3373875/chinese-biotech-giant-wuxi-apptecs-shares-jump-after-pentagon-blacklist-reversal Tue, 10 Nov 2026 04:00:30 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng Prices for Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) are falling in China’s largest electronics market, as traders shrug off the frenzy of market speculation over tightening export controls in the wake of the US midterm elections and the Jensen Huang affair. The US chip giant’s top-of-the-range GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card surged in price last month at Shenzhen’s Huaqiangbei market, but that was mostly driven by rumours that Nvidia was going to halt production to focus on high-end enterprise... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373855/chinese-traders-still-confident-nvidia-gpu-access-amid-jensen-huang-scandal https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373855/chinese-traders-still-confident-nvidia-gpu-access-amid-jensen-huang-scandal Tue, 10 Nov 2026 04:00:30 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao For Sunny He, a 32-year-old Shanghai resident, this year’s Singles’ Day shopping season culminated in a single, high-value purchase: a 12,000-yuan (US$1,797) iPhone 18 Pro Max, sweetened by a 300-yuan voucher on Alibaba Group Holding’s Tmall marketplace. “For me, Double 11 definitely isn’t as lively as before because I have less spare cash than in previous years,” He said. “Even so, I’ll take advantage of this chance for products that I couldn’t bear to buy at full price, like a new... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373780/less-coupon-math-more-ai-whats-new-chinas-18th-singles-day https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373780/less-coupon-math-more-ai-whats-new-chinas-18th-singles-day Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:30:20 +0000 Daisy Wu Daisy Wu Nasdaq is preparing to extend trading in US equities on its exchange to nearly 23 hours a day from next month, a landmark shift that will bring Wall Street into real-time competition with Asian markets. The expansion, slated for launch on December 6, introduces an overnight window running from 9pm to 4am Eastern Time. During US winter time, that corresponds to 10am to 5pm in Hong Kong and Beijing, directly overlapping with normal trading hours across China. The US Securities and Exchange... https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3373745/can-hong-kong-hold-its-ground-nasdaq-brings-wall-street-asian-hours https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3373745/can-hong-kong-hold-its-ground-nasdaq-brings-wall-street-asian-hours Mon, 09 Nov 2026 22:30:09 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang For Jason Wang, a media operator based in Zhengzhou in central China’s Henan province, switching his long-held investment strategy of buying gold to tech-themed funds was a bittersweet decision. The 28-year-old retail investor, who has no idea about tech company fundamentals, started buying tech funds – focused on China’s semiconductors, robotics and similar sectors – at the end of last year amid a bull run that lasted until the middle of this year. Watching returns on his semiconductor funds... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373746/chinas-tech-funding-divide-faces-test-fears-ai-bubble-rattle-markets https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373746/chinas-tech-funding-divide-faces-test-fears-ai-bubble-rattle-markets Mon, 09 Nov 2026 22:00:13 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu Nvidia is facing an unprecedented valuation test as a board inquiry into CEO Jensen Huang exposes the US chipmaker to a rare key-person risk, while investors also weigh the midterm elections’ potential impact on Washington’s chip controls and AI regulation. The company’s shares slumped 7.3 per cent as markets opened in the United States on Monday, following Huang’s bombshell confirmation over the weekend that he had been unfaithful to his wife and would cooperate with an investigation into his... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373825/nvidia-faces-defining-test-jensen-huang-probe-adds-chip-stock-turbulence https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373825/nvidia-faces-defining-test-jensen-huang-probe-adds-chip-stock-turbulence Mon, 09 Nov 2026 14:30:07 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao As Nvidia launched an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang after he admitted to an extramarital affair, the repercussions threaten not only his three-decade tenure but also the future of the chip giant’s delicate semiconductor trade with China, according to lawyers and analysts. The world’s leading maker of chips for artificial intelligence systems faces an unprecedented corporate and geopolitical storm after its 63-year-old leader told employees that he was unfaithful to his wife and pledged to... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3373820/nvidia-fallout-chipmaker-faces-extensive-risks-after-ceo-affair-analysts-and-lawyers-say https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3373820/nvidia-fallout-chipmaker-faces-extensive-risks-after-ceo-affair-analysts-and-lawyers-say Mon, 09 Nov 2026 12:30:08 +0000 Chong Ming Lee Chong Ming Lee China’s artificial intelligence development is expanding beyond general large language models (LLMs) towards a new generation of specialised systems designed to solve real-world industrial problems, according to a leading computer science researcher. Cui Peng, an associate professor at Beijing’s elite Tsinghua University, said that specialist systems capable of analysing industrial data, such as factory sensor readings and financial records, could become a crucial part of AI’s next phase in... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373822/beyond-llms-china-forges-new-path-ai-focus-industrial-systems https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373822/beyond-llms-china-forges-new-path-ai-focus-industrial-systems Mon, 09 Nov 2026 11:32:21 +0000 Minxiao Chang Minxiao Chang DeepSeek’s Harness artificial intelligence agent framework has reached 1.54 million daily active users less than three months after launch, the Chinese AI champion said on Sunday, marking rapid growth in a new battleground between leading Chinese and American AI giants. Users of Harness through the company’s official application programming interface were consuming around 92 trillion tokens a day as of November 4, the Hangzhou-based start-up said. That is equivalent to about 1.1 billion tokens... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373757/can-deepseek-challenge-openai-anthropic-ai-agents-harness-adoption-takes https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373757/can-deepseek-challenge-openai-anthropic-ai-agents-harness-adoption-takes Mon, 09 Nov 2026 07:00:04 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu The board of US AI chip giant Nvidia has announced an independent investigation as chief executive Jensen Huang said in a memo to employees that he had been unfaithful to his wife. Huang admitted to an extramarital affair and apologised to his family and colleagues in the memo, which the company published on its website on Sunday. “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry,” Huang wrote. He apologised and pledged to... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3373724/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-admits-affair-board-orders-investigation https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3373724/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-admits-affair-board-orders-investigation Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:53:13 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen Dong Mingzhu chairs Gree Electric Appliances, a home-appliance giant based in southern China’s Guangdong province. Having worked her way up from a frontline sales job, she is one of China’s best-known figures in manufacturing. As a deputy to the National People’s Congress, she has long advocated for manufacturing innovation, higher incomes and greener consumption. In this interview, conducted when she was named an inaugural “Cool Leader” at an assembly of the UN Environment Programme’s Cool... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3373325/how-dong-mingzhu-chinas-manufacturing-iron-lady-maintaining-her-cool-ai-era https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3373325/how-dong-mingzhu-chinas-manufacturing-iron-lady-maintaining-her-cool-ai-era Sun, 08 Nov 2026 22:00:12 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Artificial intelligence models will soon be powerful enough to master biology, presenting both benefits and serious risks, Tencent Holdings’ chief AI scientist and former OpenAI star researcher Vinces Yao Shunyu said during a rare public appearance on Saturday. The assessment comes as frontier AI systems are increasingly being applied to medicine and biology, which could accelerate discovery of new drugs and other treatments. However, experts also warn that malicious actors could use AI to... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373697/ai-will-soon-master-biology-unleashing-new-safety-risks-tencent-ai-chief-warns https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373697/ai-will-soon-master-biology-unleashing-new-safety-risks-tencent-ai-chief-warns Sun, 08 Nov 2026 10:22:27 +0000 Xiaofei Xu Xiaofei Xu Humanoid robots represent the next frontier for Pudu Robotics, according to founder and CEO Felix Zhang Tao, as the global commercial robotics leader takes on Elon Musk’s Tesla in the growing sector and explores manufacturing in Europe, its largest overseas market. “It’s definitely a competitor, but a long-term one,” Zhang told the South China Morning Post in a recent interview, adding that Tesla was a “very good” rival whose high profile had driven innovation and broadened market awareness in... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373641/chinas-pudu-robotics-which-makes-80-its-sales-abroad-takes-tesla-humanoids https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373641/chinas-pudu-robotics-which-makes-80-its-sales-abroad-takes-tesla-humanoids Sun, 08 Nov 2026 09:00:28 +0000 Minxiao Chang Minxiao Chang The driver’s seat was empty and the steering wheel was turning on its own. Sitting in the back of a Pony.ai robotaxi in Shenzhen, I felt a flicker of nervousness. But as the car glided into traffic, the initial unease gave way to an appreciation of something far less futuristic: the blissful absence of small talk with the driver. My test rides in two of China’s major tech hubs – with Pony.ai in Shenzhen and Baidu’s Apollo Go in Beijing – offered a first-hand experience of how autonomous vehicles... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373603/robotaxis-are-taking-over-chinas-cities-what-are-they-actually-ride https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373603/robotaxis-are-taking-over-chinas-cities-what-are-they-actually-ride Sat, 07 Nov 2026 13:30:08 +0000 Minxiao Chang Minxiao Chang Chinese artificial intelligence models led by Moonshot AI’s Kimi family accounted for nearly nine-tenths of estimated global enterprise spending on open-source systems, according to a new study, even though proprietary US rivals continue to capture the vast majority of overall revenue. The report, released this week by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, said Chinese AI systems accounted for 89 per cent of global enterprise spending on open-source models. Kimi led with a 61 per... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373550/chinas-ai-models-led-kimi-dominate-open-source-enterprise-spending https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373550/chinas-ai-models-led-kimi-dominate-open-source-enterprise-spending Fri, 06 Nov 2026 13:30:09 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen Solana, one of the world’s largest blockchain networks, plans to expand in Hong Kong to tap the city’s growing demand for tokenisation, according to a senior executive. “I believe that the biggest opportunity for Solana is actually in [the Asia-Pacific region],” Solana Company chairman and CEO Joseph Chee said in an interview in Hong Kong earlier this week. Founded in the US in 2018, the company is behind one of the most popular cryptocurrencies. With a market capitalisation of about US$53... https://www.scmp.com/business/cryptocurrency/article/3373582/crypto-heavyweight-solana-eyes-hong-kong-expansion-tap-growing-tokenisation-demand https://www.scmp.com/business/cryptocurrency/article/3373582/crypto-heavyweight-solana-eyes-hong-kong-expansion-tap-growing-tokenisation-demand Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:03:24 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao China’s pure-play artificial intelligence chipmakers crossed an important milestone in the third quarter as several firms swung into profit, but severe supply chain hurdles and soaring memory costs cloud their long-term growth prospects. Domestic graphics processing unit (GPU) developers including Moore Threads, MetaX and Iluvatar CoreX are racing to fill the market void left by Nvidia, whose high-end processors face strict US export controls. These home-grown firms are competing fiercely to win... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373532/chinas-ai-chipmakers-report-first-profits-will-trend-continue https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373532/chinas-ai-chipmakers-report-first-profits-will-trend-continue Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:30:06 +0000 Raymond Ma,Neil Denslow Raymond Ma,Neil Denslow China’s stocks pared weekly gains and the benchmark 10-year bond hit a record low as the global artificial intelligence (AI) stock bubble burst following the US Democrats’ landslide win in midterm elections. The CSI 300 equity index fell 1.4 per cent, weighed down by AI-related shares. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index dropped 1.3 per cent. The yield on China’s 10-year sovereign bond touched an intraday low of 1.58 per cent, according to Bloomberg, spurred by investor demand for safe-haven assets and... https://www.scmp.com/plus/business/markets/article/3373548/ai-bubble-bursts-fifth-plenum-resolution-singles-day https://www.scmp.com/plus/business/markets/article/3373548/ai-bubble-bursts-fifth-plenum-resolution-singles-day Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:05:28 +0000 Mia Nurmamat Mia Nurmamat The sweeping midterm election victory by US Democrats has triggered warnings from analysts that an impending regulatory clampdown could derail the nation’s multi-trillion-dollar artificial intelligence data centre buildout. Wall Street forecasters slashed their projections for Big Tech infrastructure spending hours after the vote, cautioning that a wave of proposed project moratoria and tighter oversight could stall up to 30 per cent of planned US facilities and force developers to downscale... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373506/does-democratic-midterm-victory-spell-end-us-ai-data-centre-boom https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373506/does-democratic-midterm-victory-spell-end-us-ai-data-centre-boom Fri, 06 Nov 2026 06:00:27 +0000 Zhu Wenqian,Enoch Yiu Zhu Wenqian,Enoch Yiu Hong Kong’s Exchange Fund, the war chest used to defend the local currency, reported a 74 per cent tumble in third-quarter earnings amid pervasive market uncertainty. The outlook for the final quarter is also challenging, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said on Friday. Earnings totalled HK$18.6 billion (US$2.4 billion) in the quarter, plunging from HK$70.8 billion a year earlier. For the first nine months of 2026, total earnings slid 39.6 per cent from a year earlier to HK$171.9... https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3373507/hong-kongs-exchange-fund-earnings-tumble-74-hkma-warns-more-market-turbulence https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3373507/hong-kongs-exchange-fund-earnings-tumble-74-hkma-warns-more-market-turbulence Fri, 06 Nov 2026 05:35:25 +0000 Chong Ming Lee,Mia Nurmamat Chong Ming Lee,Mia Nurmamat Elon Musk bet nearly half a billion dollars that political spending could keep Washington friendly to his sprawling business empire. On Tuesday, that bet came up short. As Democrats recaptured control of the US Congress in the midterm elections, the world’s richest man found himself facing an abruptly altered political landscape. After pouring a record-breaking US$474 million into political groups – overwhelmingly backing Republicans – Musk now faces a divided Washington keen to examine his... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373422/after-us474m-gamble-flops-what-happens-now-elon-musks-tesla-spacex-and-china-ties https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373422/after-us474m-gamble-flops-what-happens-now-elon-musks-tesla-spacex-and-china-ties Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:00:08 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao China’s second-largest contract chipmaker, Hua Hong Grace Semiconductor, is aggressively expanding into silicon photonics, as the company looks to capture the next wave of the global artificial intelligence infrastructure boom. Speaking on an earnings call with analysts on Thursday, Hua Hong chairman and president Bai Peng said the company planned to significantly expand its footprint in silicon photonics – a critical technology used in AI optical modules – during its next major capacity... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373445/chinese-chipmaker-hua-hong-bets-big-silicon-photonics-amid-ai-boom https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373445/chinese-chipmaker-hua-hong-bets-big-silicon-photonics-amid-ai-boom Thu, 05 Nov 2026 13:27:39 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng Huawei Technologies has launched its first desktop computer powered by its proprietary operating system, HarmonyOS, touting the device as “100 per cent domestically made” in its latest push for technological self-reliance. The Shenzhen-based company on Thursday unveiled its Qinyun HM650 series desktop computers for enterprise and government users, powered by the self-developed Kirin X90 processor, which debuted in Huawei’s consumer laptops and tablets last year. The tech giant said the new... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373435/no-intel-no-qualcomm-huawei-unveils-desktop-built-entirely-china-made-components https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373435/no-intel-no-qualcomm-huawei-unveils-desktop-built-entirely-china-made-components Thu, 05 Nov 2026 13:15:05 +0000 Ann Cao,Sylvia Ma Ann Cao,Sylvia Ma Robots developed by Chinese humanoid maker Unitree Robotics can now paint pictures and play chess without any prior training, relying on frontier AI models to navigate complex physical tasks, according to founder and CEO Wang Xingxing. Speaking on Thursday at the China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, Wang said Unitree’s machines, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-6, were capable of executing intricate robotic sequences, such as dynamically replacing brush water and blending pigments, guided... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373423/powered-gpt-6-unitree-humanoid-robots-master-painting-chess-without-training-says-ceo https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373423/powered-gpt-6-unitree-humanoid-robots-master-painting-chess-without-training-says-ceo Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:00:23 +0000 Reuters Reuters China’s state planner has told Japanese investor SoftBank it will not allow the US$5.4 billion acquisition ‌of the robotics segment of engineering group ABB to go ahead, the Swiss firm said on Thursday. The case marks the second major deal blocked by China this year after Meta Platforms was ordered to unwind its US$2 billion-plus acquisition of artificial intelligence start-up Manus. The news comes as Beijing tightens scrutiny of foreign investment in domestic start-ups that are developing... https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3373415/china-blocks-softbanks-us54-billion-takeover-abbs-robotics-division https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3373415/china-blocks-softbanks-us54-billion-takeover-abbs-robotics-division Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:23:53 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen Dong Mingzhu chairs Gree Electric Appliances, a home-appliance giant based in southern China’s Guangdong province. Having worked her way up from a frontline sales job, she is one of China’s best-known figures in manufacturing. As a deputy to the National People’s Congress, she has long advocated for manufacturing innovation, higher incomes and greener consumption. In this interview, conducted when she was named an inaugural “Cool Leader” at an assembly of the UN Environment Programme’s Cool... https://www.scmp.com/plus/tech/big-tech/article/3373365/chinas-appliance-queen-her-firms-quest-greener-cooling-and-going-global https://www.scmp.com/plus/tech/big-tech/article/3373365/chinas-appliance-queen-her-firms-quest-greener-cooling-and-going-global Thu, 05 Nov 2026 07:23:30 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow The Democratic Party’s sweeping midterm election victory and takeover of both houses of Congress could slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development in the US, with implications for both the global AI trade and the technology rivalry between Washington and Beijing, analysts said. The assessment comes as concerns about AI and the data centres that power it proved to be a contributing factor in the backlash against the Republican Party and US President Donald Trump, a vocal supporter... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373295/how-democratic-sweep-could-slow-ai-growth-us-and-help-chinas-ambitions https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373295/how-democratic-sweep-could-slow-ai-growth-us-and-help-chinas-ambitions Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:00:08 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow DeepSeek is committed to open-source artificial intelligence to accelerate the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI), even if it heightens safety risks, a company engineer says, defying growing safety concerns from the US and scrutiny in China over whether the strategy poses national security risks. Speaking on Tuesday on an AI panel at the World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, DeepSeek engineer Gao Xi said open-source development promoted shared innovations and technical... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373262/deepseek-engineer-defends-push-open-source-ai-smarter-humans-despite-higher-risks https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373262/deepseek-engineer-defends-push-open-source-ai-smarter-humans-despite-higher-risks Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:10 +0000 Xiaofei Xu Xiaofei Xu Shanghai-listed Wingtech Technology has rejected a restructuring proposal under which it would lose control of Dutch chipmaker Nexperia’s assets outside China, condemning the plan as an “expropriation” driven by discrimination. The stand-off deepens a year-long dispute between Wingtech and Dutch authorities, as the company faces an impending delisting deadline at home, while Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten prepares for an official visit to Beijing in the spring. In a statement on Tuesday,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3373244/wingtech-rejects-nexperia-restructuring-cites-discrimination-towards-chinese-investors https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3373244/wingtech-rejects-nexperia-restructuring-cites-discrimination-towards-chinese-investors Wed, 04 Nov 2026 08:30:15 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has rolled out its latest flagship artificial intelligence model, Hy4, seeking to challenge top open-weight rivals with enhanced agentic capabilities built to power its enterprise software ecosystem. Released on Wednesday, the large language model (LLM) introduced visual understanding for the first time. Hy4 could process images, analyse complex charts and conduct visual mathematical reasoning, according to the Shenzhen-based company. Tencent said the release... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373227/tencent-unveils-hy4-open-weight-ai-race-deepseek-zai-alibaba-heats https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373227/tencent-unveils-hy4-open-weight-ai-race-deepseek-zai-alibaba-heats Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:01:09 +0000 Minxiao Chang Minxiao Chang For autonomous vehicles, the hardest lessons to learn are the ones that can test the skills of even the most experienced human drivers: an errant cyclist darting through a red light, or an animal bolting into oncoming traffic from behind a corner. The Chinese tech giant Baidu has developed a new AI-driven simulator to prepare its Apollo robotaxis for just such rare but high-stakes road hazards, as the firm looks to gain an edge in the fast-growing self-driving taxi market. The system, Apollo... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373173/baidus-new-ai-simulator-gives-robotaxis-crash-course-rare-road-hazards https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373173/baidus-new-ai-simulator-gives-robotaxis-crash-course-rare-road-hazards Wed, 04 Nov 2026 01:30:05 +0000 Chong Ming Lee Chong Ming Lee US artificial intelligence giant Anthropic’s initial public offering prospectus has exposed a vast profitability gap between it and rivals Z.ai and MiniMax, highlighting the challenges facing China’s AI model developers in turning technological advances into sustainable businesses. The Claude developer’s filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week revealed a significant financial advantage over its most direct Chinese counterparts, despite the latter’s continued... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373124/why-chinese-ai-stars-zai-minimax-struggle-match-anthropics-profit-margin https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373124/why-chinese-ai-stars-zai-minimax-struggle-match-anthropics-profit-margin Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:30:13 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Open source is the only viable path to creating a sustainable artificial intelligence industry, Alibaba Group Holding chairman Joe Tsai said on Tuesday, as the Chinese technology giant doubles down on its open-source AI strategy. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the annual World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, Tsai pointed to a growing convergence around open ecosystems among domestic tech companies, as surging AI demand rubs up against persistent... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373155/alibabas-joe-tsai-champions-open-source-ai-wuzhen-summit-amid-us-pushback https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3373155/alibabas-joe-tsai-champions-open-source-ai-wuzhen-summit-amid-us-pushback Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:17 +0000 SCMP Plus SCMP Plus Alan Macfarlane, a British anthropologist, historian and Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge, known as “Grandpa Cute” in China, answered questions at an SCMP Plus exclusive in-person event in Hong Kong on October 26. https://www.scmp.com/plus/tech/tech-trends/article/3373080/scmp-plus-fireside-chat-about-ai-professor-alan-macfarlane https://www.scmp.com/plus/tech/tech-trends/article/3373080/scmp-plus-fireside-chat-about-ai-professor-alan-macfarlane Tue, 03 Nov 2026 06:40:34 +0000 Mia Nurmamat Mia Nurmamat China’s “Lipstick King” has traded make-up swatches for artificial intelligence. Top live-streamer Li Jiaqi on Monday evening teamed up with an executive from Alibaba Group Holding to pitch AI subscriptions, selling nearly 100,000 monthly packages in just 30 minutes, according to data provided by the e-commerce giant. The broadcast on Taobao and Tmall – Alibaba’s largest domestic online marketplace – marked the first time generative AI products have taken centre stage during the annual Singles’... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373090/chinas-lipstick-king-hawks-tokens-ai-gets-mass-market-singles-day-push https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373090/chinas-lipstick-king-hawks-tokens-ai-gets-mass-market-singles-day-push Tue, 03 Nov 2026 06:30:09 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen Hong Kong’s plan to start an interbank tokenised gold transaction project marks a crucial step in its quest to make itself a key global hub for the precious metal, according to analysts. The city planned to launch a gold token representing a standard 400-ounce gold bar, referencing HAU, Hong Kong’s ticker for gold prices launched earlier this year, said Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui Ching-yu during the annual Fintech Week event on Monday. He said the effort... https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3373071/tokenised-gold-bar-advance-hong-kongs-ambitions-digital-metal-trading-hub https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3373071/tokenised-gold-bar-advance-hong-kongs-ambitions-digital-metal-trading-hub Tue, 03 Nov 2026 03:54:43 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Empyrean Technology, China’s top provider of electronic design automation (EDA) tools, plans to acquire a majority stake in a domestic start-up, reinforcing Beijing’s drive for tech self-sufficiency and bolstering support for Huawei Technologies’ semiconductor ambitions. The Beijing-based firm said in a Shenzhen Stock Exchange filing on Sunday that it would acquire a 50.38 per cent stake in Easy-Logic Technology for 218.8 million yuan (US$33 million). Once completed, the start-up would be... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373005/chinas-eda-champion-buys-start-address-weak-link-support-huaweis-tau-scaling-law https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373005/chinas-eda-champion-buys-start-address-weak-link-support-huaweis-tau-scaling-law Mon, 02 Nov 2026 13:30:12 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu Chinese memory chip giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is pressing ahead with an alternative chip architecture that US rival Micron Technology has chosen to bypass, highlighting an industry divide over how best to pack more data onto silicon under cost and geopolitical constraints. The Hefei-based company planned to send customers samples of its first server-grade dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) product built on the 4F² architecture by the end of this year, according to a summary of... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3372997/chinas-cxmt-defends-bet-risky-new-dram-architecture-circumvent-us-chip-curbs https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3372997/chinas-cxmt-defends-bet-risky-new-dram-architecture-circumvent-us-chip-curbs Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:30:09 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen Hong Kong has touted rapid progress in the first year of its five-year fintech strategy, pledging to double down on artificial intelligence and tokenisation even as many initiatives face the challenge of achieving commercial scale. Tokenisation, for instance, had moved from the sandbox “into the real world”, said Eddie Yue Wai-man, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), at the city’s annual FinTech Week conference on Monday. Hong Kong had authorised 17 tokenised public funds... https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3372968/how-hong-kongs-fintech-strategy-progressing-and-where-growth-still-lags https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3372968/how-hong-kongs-fintech-strategy-progressing-and-where-growth-still-lags Mon, 02 Nov 2026 10:00:07 +0000 Daniel Ren Daniel Ren China’s two largest carmakers, BYD and Geely Auto, recorded their strongest monthly sales of the year in October, bucking a downward trend in the world’s largest automotive market as smaller rivals come under increasing pressure to turn a profit. Shenzhen-based electric vehicle (EV) giant BYD handed over 490,168 cars to customers at home and abroad last month, up 11 per cent year on year, while Hangzhou-headquartered Geely delivered 310,183 petrol and electric cars worldwide in the same period,... https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3372948/byd-and-geely-hit-sales-highs-pressure-mounts-chinas-smaller-carmakers https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3372948/byd-and-geely-hit-sales-highs-pressure-mounts-chinas-smaller-carmakers Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:00:07 +0000 Chong Ming Lee Chong Ming Lee For the first time, the amount of inference data generated by artificial intelligence systems in China has surpassed the amount of data used to train those systems, according to a new government-backed report, illustrating how the country is increasingly adopting AI at scale. The report released on Saturday by the China Centre for Information Industry Development (CCID), which operates under China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), cited recent official data showing that... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3372961/china-touts-ai-milestone-running-models-now-uses-more-data-training-them https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3372961/china-touts-ai-milestone-running-models-now-uses-more-data-training-them Mon, 02 Nov 2026 07:00:23 +0000 Zoe SL Chan,Themis Qi Zoe SL Chan,Themis Qi Hong Kong’s initial public offering (IPO) momentum has cooled sharply in the fourth quarter amid market volatility and tighter regulatory scrutiny, but industry players say a year-end rush of listings could still help the city secure a top-three global ranking for 2026. The market has slowed significantly since October, with only three new listings, all of which closed below their offer prices on debut. Two other IPO candidates shelved their listings after completing procedures, testing Hong... https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3372736/has-hong-kongs-ipo-boom-hit-wall-or-year-end-rush-still-come https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3372736/has-hong-kongs-ipo-boom-hit-wall-or-year-end-rush-still-come Mon, 02 Nov 2026 01:00:15 +0000 Wang Xiangwei Wang Xiangwei When Chinese leader Mao Zedong and then US president Richard Nixon ended more than two decades of hostility in the early 1970s and began restoring ties, one powerful force pulling them together was a shared adversary in the form of the Soviet Union. Fast forward to today. The United States and China, the world’s two largest economies, have spent eight years locked in competition and confrontation, from trade and investment to technology, amid mounting fears that they are on a path to inevitable... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3372563/china-and-us-need-join-hands-against-another-powerful-adversary-ai https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3372563/china-and-us-need-join-hands-against-another-powerful-adversary-ai Sun, 01 Nov 2026 21:30:09 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Using artificial intelligence to build even smarter systems will make artificial general intelligence (AGI) more achievable, though it would need to be done safely, leading Chinese computer scientist Tang Jie said at an event in Shanghai on Saturday. The remarks underscore how AI companies in the US and China are both chasing the holy grail of recursive self-improvement (RSI), where increasingly powerful AI systems also become better at improving themselves in an ever-accelerating... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3372834/self-improving-ai-key-step-towards-agi-safety-key-zai-founder https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3372834/self-improving-ai-key-step-towards-agi-safety-key-zai-founder Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:19 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has previewed a plan for a more autonomous AI agent that can handle multiple tasks with minimal human intervention, as it steps up competition with US rivals OpenAI and Anthropic in developing coding assistants. The proposed system, dubbed super agent, aimed to reduce the need for humans to coordinate multiple AI agents and monitor their progress, addressing a key bottleneck in managing today’s increasingly complex workflows, according to a... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3372884/deepseek-unveils-ai-super-agent-coding-race-openai-anthropic https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3372884/deepseek-unveils-ai-super-agent-coding-race-openai-anthropic Sun, 01 Nov 2026 10:00:26 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang Driving along the wide boulevards of Astana during a recent trip to the Kazakh capital, signs of China’s growing commercial footprint were everywhere. Chinese cars were becoming a common sight on the streets here, as brands from BYD to Changan made aggressive inroads in a market once dominated by South Korea’s Hyundai and Kia, said the driver who picked me up from the airport in a gleaming Changan electric vehicle. But it was not the rise of Chinese tech that had brought me to this energy-rich... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3372785/us-or-china-why-kazakhstan-refuses-pick-sides-it-eyes-ai-revolution https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3372785/us-or-china-why-kazakhstan-refuses-pick-sides-it-eyes-ai-revolution Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:00:13 +0000 Xie Ming Xie Ming With US President Donald Trump recently pushing the use of “superintelligence” (SI) instead of artificial intelligence (AI) in national discourse, the acronym has gained unprecedented attention. It is the right acronym but the wrong meaning. In my opinion, SI should stand for “self-intelligence”. It probably explains why academics, critics and even major AI companies are calling for a temporary pause in AI development. They must have realised the technology’s current trajectory is headed down... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3372415/si-future-ai-just-not-way-trump-thinks https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3372415/si-future-ai-just-not-way-trump-thinks Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:30:06 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Apple’s long-awaited artificial intelligence features will be officially launched in China in December, ending two years of regulatory uncertainty as the US tech giant seeks to bring advanced technologies to its second-largest market with the help of Alibaba Group Holding. The first batch of Apple Intelligence services will roll out to Chinese iPhone users alongside the iOS 27.3 update in December, following an open beta test with developers starting November 4, the US company said in a... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3372831/apple-intelligence-roll-out-iphones-china-december-alibaba-backing https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3372831/apple-intelligence-roll-out-iphones-china-december-alibaba-backing Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:02:17 +0000