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 Howard Liu Howard Liu China’s technology sector is facing fresh pressure in the United States as lawmakers seek to broaden the range of products that can be placed on a trade blacklist, while Lenovo Group has been drawn into a patent dispute involving memory devices. The Communications and Technology Transparency Act, unveiled by the US House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, would expand the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Covered List from “communications equipment or service” to the much... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3368633/china-tech-faces-fresh-scrutiny-us-blacklist-bill-introduced-lenovo-case-emerges?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3368633/china-tech-faces-fresh-scrutiny-us-blacklist-bill-introduced-lenovo-case-emerges?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:30:25 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen Efforts to detect multiple cancers through a single blood draw are gathering momentum after US regulators endorsed the technology for the first time, although experts say wider adoption in Hong Kong still faces challenges as doctors remain cautious about its clinical value. In a landmark decision for the emerging field of multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests, a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel on Thursday voted in favour of US company Grail’s “Galleri test”, recommending it... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3368665/us-regulators-back-multi-cancer-blood-test-hong-kong-doctors-remain-cautious?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3368665/us-regulators-back-multi-cancer-blood-test-hong-kong-doctors-remain-cautious?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:00 +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 Iris Deng Iris Deng Tencent Holdings on Thursday launched TenPayGo, a mobile payment app targeting foreign visitors, as the tech giant seeks to capture China’s growing inbound tourism market ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Shenzhen. Developed by Tencent’s WeChat Pay team, TenPayGo allowed international travellers to make payments at tens of millions of shops, restaurants and attractions across the WeChat Pay network by linking their credit cards or their home-country digital wallets... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368544/tencent-rolls-out-payment-app-foreign-travellers-ahead-apec-summit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368544/tencent-rolls-out-payment-app-foreign-travellers-ahead-apec-summit?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:19:05 +0000 Chong Ming Lee,Vincent Chow Chong Ming Lee,Vincent Chow When the presidents of the United States and China meet in Washington, the world will be watching to see whether their two countries can make good on their agreement to work towards “constructive strategic stability”. In the sixth part of a series, Chong Ming Lee and Vincent Chow examine what’s behind the call for “pacing” by American AI giants – effectively a slowdown in development – and how the phenomenon is being viewed in China. After years of rapid development, leading US AI executives are... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3368503/pacing-problem-can-ai-fears-overcome-us-china-race-dynamics-and-force-slowdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3368503/pacing-problem-can-ai-fears-overcome-us-china-race-dynamics-and-force-slowdown?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:00:06 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao US President Donald Trump has sold shares worth tens of millions of US dollars in major tech companies, including Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms in July, a move that may reveal some of his views on the sector, especially as competition with China intensifies. Microsoft topped the list of sales transactions, with six trades totalling up to US$31 million, according to filings disclosed by the US Office of Government Ethics on Tuesday. The data detailed Trump’s trading activity in July,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3368525/trump-offloads-tens-millions-ai-tech-shares-led-microsoft-amazon-meta?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3368525/trump-offloads-tens-millions-ai-tech-shares-led-microsoft-amazon-meta?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:30:07 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu Chinese storage makers, long known for packaging chips into modules, have been moving up the value chain into wafer-level operations, with the latest firm to make the jump investing 4.5 billion yuan (US$672 million) in an advanced packaging project. The sum, which Shanghai-listed Biwin Storage Technology will pour into the third phase of its advanced packaging and testing project in Dongguan, in southern China’s Guangdong province, will exceed the 3.09 billion yuan it put into the first two... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368535/chinas-storage-makers-aim-climb-value-chain-advanced-packaging-bets?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368535/chinas-storage-makers-aim-climb-value-chain-advanced-packaging-bets?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:29:23 +0000 Zoe SL Chan Zoe SL Chan Shenzhen Camsense Technologies, a maker of spatial sensors for robotic vacuum cleaners, launched a Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) that aims to raise about HK$680 million (US$86.7 million), despite headwinds from Washington’s recent import ban on foreign-made vacuum robots. “The export and procurement for our existing client products remain normal, with potential disruption limited to new product development schedules,” Camsense co-founder Zhou Kun said about the ban’s impact. “We have... https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3368466/chinese-maker-robot-vacuum-sensors-launches-hong-kong-ipo-undeterred-us-ban?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3368466/chinese-maker-robot-vacuum-sensors-launches-hong-kong-ipo-undeterred-us-ban?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:00:09 +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 Sylvia Ma Sylvia Ma Chinese Premier Li Qiang called for deeper integration of artificial intelligence and manufacturing during a visit to Shanghai, as Beijing seeks to expand advanced manufacturing and emerging industries amid intensifying global technology competition. “[We] should combine China’s strengths in manufacturing and digital technologies,” Li said during his visit to an AI application testing base in the city on Tuesday, Xinhua reported. He called for the creation of more manufacturing service... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368455/chinas-premier-li-qiang-calls-harnessing-ai-propel-manufacturing-advances?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368455/chinas-premier-li-qiang-calls-harnessing-ai-propel-manufacturing-advances?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:30:26 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology on Tuesday launched a suite of central processing units (CPUs) for robotics and industrial edge devices, expanding beyond cloud computing and into the fast-growing market for physical artificial intelligence. The firm unveiled its Hygon 1000 series processors, designed to be embedded into physical devices in industrial automation systems such as robotics and factory controllers, enabling computing and graphics processing to be handled locally. Built... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368417/chinas-hygon-moves-beyond-data-centres-embedded-processors-robotics-edge-ai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368417/chinas-hygon-moves-beyond-data-centres-embedded-processors-robotics-edge-ai?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:30:09 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu Huawei Technologies’ latest smartphone processor, the Kirin 9050 Pro, unveiled earlier this month, has narrowed its gap with Apple’s chips to about three years, from roughly four years in the previous generation, according to equity research firm Bernstein. The chip, which Bernstein estimated was produced using technology equivalent to a 7-nanometre process node, outperformed Apple’s 3nm A17 Pro in Geekbench 6 multicore tests, a widely used benchmark that measures how effectively processors... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368404/chinas-huawei-trims-mobile-chip-gap-apple-tau-scaling-law-pays-bernstein?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368404/chinas-huawei-trims-mobile-chip-gap-apple-tau-scaling-law-pays-bernstein?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:06 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu China is attempting to breathe new life into its nearly 20-year-old Han Xin code by promoting a miniaturised version to use on semiconductors, marking the latest chapter in Beijing’s long-running attempt to secure a foothold for its home-grown standards in global industrial supply chains. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said on Monday that the “Micro Han Xin” code – a scaled-down iteration of the 2007-era symbology – had entered the formal international standardisation... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3368357/china-eyes-chip-industry-foothold-tiny-han-xin-code-challenge-us-standard?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3368357/china-eyes-chip-industry-foothold-tiny-han-xin-code-challenge-us-standard?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:00:09 +0000 Zoe SL Chan Zoe SL Chan Television maker Hisense Group Holdings’ optical communications unit made a steady debut in Hong Kong after raising HK$5.6 billion (US$714 million), adding momentum to a fresh wave of mainland Chinese conglomerates spinning off business units to tap overseas capital and support technology expansion. Shares of fibre-optic communications equipment maker Ligent Technologies jumped as much as 19.2 per cent on Tuesday morning, valuing the company at more than HK$35 billion. The stock pared early... https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3368345/hisense-unit-leaps-hong-kong-debut-amid-rush-mainland-chinese-corporate-spin-offs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3368345/hisense-unit-leaps-hong-kong-debut-amid-rush-mainland-chinese-corporate-spin-offs?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:33:33 +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 Iris Deng Iris Deng In China’s hardware hub in Shenzhen, the speculative frenzy around consumer multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) has cooled into a sharp price correction, but prices for artificial intelligence server components remain elevated. Spot prices for consumer-grade MLCCs, often dubbed the “the rice of the electronics industry”, have fallen by two-thirds from their peak two months ago, according to Wang Jun, an MLCC distributor in Huaqiangbei, a commercial zone in the city known for electronic... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3368295/chinas-mlcc-market-splits-two-ai-server-demand-outpaces-consumer-electronics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3368295/chinas-mlcc-market-splits-two-ai-server-demand-outpaces-consumer-electronics?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:22 +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 Minxiao Chang,Chong Ming Lee Minxiao Chang,Chong Ming Lee Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Moonshot AI has begun supplying its flagship Kimi K3 model to Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the world’s largest cloud services providers, in a major test case for how open-weight AI models can generate higher revenue from third-party platforms. The model is now available on Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s tool for building generative AI applications, offering “a powerful new option for coding and knowledge work”, Amazon said in an announcement on Friday. While... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368274/moonshots-kimi-k3-lands-amazon-key-test-chinese-open-source-ai-revenue?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368274/moonshots-kimi-k3-lands-amazon-key-test-chinese-open-source-ai-revenue?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:30:06 +0000 Minxiao Chang Minxiao Chang China’s top internet watchdog has drafted new rules to regulate how social platforms and game developers should protect minors, including a ban on offering “virtual intimacy services” to those under 18 as artificial intelligence-powered companions gain traction. The rules, titled “Ensuring minors’ safe and healthy use of the internet”, would ban online platforms from providing “virtual relatives or companions”, and prohibit them from offering services that “induce minors to become addicted or... https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3368252/chinese-regulator-drafts-rules-protect-teenagers-intimate-ai-companions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3368252/chinese-regulator-drafts-rules-protect-teenagers-intimate-ai-companions?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:30:21 +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 Ann Cao Ann Cao Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology is set to release a new chip targeting complex real-world applications including robotics, an expansion from its current focus on data centres. The product launch, slated for Tuesday, marks Hygon’s move into a new chip category powering machines that interact directly with their environments, as physical artificial intelligence becomes increasingly important. The new chip, an iteration of the company’s CPU1000 series, is designed to meet “low-power,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368168/chinese-ai-chipmaker-hygon-plots-expansion-data-centres-robotics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368168/chinese-ai-chipmaker-hygon-plots-expansion-data-centres-robotics?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:30:10 +0000 Minxiao Chang,Wency Chen Minxiao Chang,Wency Chen Chinese artificial intelligence company Z.ai is facing a trust crisis after developers discovered that its coding assistant tool, ZCode, was silently uploading local workspace data to external servers without explicit user consent. Even though the company, also known as Zhipu AI, apologised and patched the vulnerability, developers said the incident was likely to weaken its reputation, especially at a time when cybersecurity is becoming a central issue in the AI industry. The issue came to light... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368159/chinese-ai-firm-zai-faces-reputation-hit-after-users-spot-unauthorised-uploads?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3368159/chinese-ai-firm-zai-faces-reputation-hit-after-users-spot-unauthorised-uploads?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:00:09 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Chinese memory chip giant Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) said on Sunday that it adopted its new-generation technology platform for mass production, narrowing the advantage of global leaders including Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in manufacturing nodes. CXMT’s fifth-generation technology platform, dubbed G5, achieved a “quantum leap” in storage density, with the number of dies produced per wafer increasing by at least 50 per cent from the previous generation while maintaining better... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3368154/chinas-cxmt-touts-new-chip-manufacturing-platform-close-worlds-most-advanced?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3368154/chinas-cxmt-touts-new-chip-manufacturing-platform-close-worlds-most-advanced?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 20 Sep 2026 10:30:05 +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 Toomas Plunt Toomas Plunt Years ago, I watched a focus group explain itself into a contradiction. We asked people what mattered when choosing car insurance. Price won. The deductible came next. Reputation did not appear. During coffee, I asked the interviewer to change the question. How much cheaper would a less prestigious insurer have to be before they switched? One participant, who 15 minutes earlier ranked price first, said no discount was large enough. Nothing changed except how we asked the question. Something... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3366862/ai-doesnt-just-answer-questions-it-legitimises-bad-ones?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3366862/ai-doesnt-just-answer-questions-it-legitimises-bad-ones?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:30:05 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Chinese researchers have made early strides in pushing semiconductor processing nodes below 3-nm using older lithography technology, as more advanced extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) tools from ASML remain blocked under US sanctions. The breakthrough marks the latest progress in China’s drive to chart an alternative path to advanced chipmaking amid US export restrictions. Under current export control rules, Dutch equipment giant ASML is barred from selling its state-of-the-art EUV machines... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3368042/china-makes-progress-3-nm-chips-without-advanced-lithography-tools?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3368042/china-makes-progress-3-nm-chips-without-advanced-lithography-tools?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:21 +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 Wency Chen Wency Chen Ant International, the overseas affiliate of China’s Ant Group, is executing an artificial intelligence overhaul across its entire suite of global financial services, introducing AI agents designed to help manage payments, foreign exchange and treasury operations. Described by the company as its largest-ever product upgrade, the initiative embeds AI-native solutions across all platforms: cross-border payment network Alipay+, merchant services provider Antom, account and treasury platform... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367998/ant-international-embeds-ai-agents-across-all-platforms-biggest-ever-product-upgrade?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367998/ant-international-embeds-ai-agents-across-all-platforms-biggest-ever-product-upgrade?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:00:07 +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 Wency Chen,Ben Jiang Wency Chen,Ben Jiang As technological developments augur an era of renewed space exploration, China is aiming to become a major player. In the second part of this two-part series, Wency Chen and Ben Jiang examine the country’s strategy and progress on reusable rockets – a field where the US has a tremendous lead. US commercial space firm SpaceX has been eager to tout its deployment of reusable first-stage rocket boosters, claiming to have flown more than 600 missions with the cost-cutting launch components. Despite... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367874/china-has-gained-pace-space-race-recovering-rockets-can-it-relaunch-one?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367874/china-has-gained-pace-space-race-recovering-rockets-can-it-relaunch-one?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:00:12 +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 Wency Chen,Mia Nurmamat Wency Chen,Mia Nurmamat As technological developments augur an era of renewed space exploration, China is aiming to become a major player. In the first part of this two-part series, Wency Chen and Mia Nurmamat examine how the southern island province of Hainan is betting on a growing aerospace cluster to rewrite its economic playbook beyond tourism. On Hainan’s northeastern coast, launch towers rise abruptly from a flat landscape of coconut palms and open sky. At Pad 1 of the commercial spaceport in Wenchang, an... https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3367752/chinas-rocket-boom-turns-hainan-space-hub-can-launches-fuel-wider-growth?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3367752/chinas-rocket-boom-turns-hainan-space-hub-can-launches-fuel-wider-growth?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:00:08 +0000 Ann Cao,Minxiao Chang Ann Cao,Minxiao Chang Chinese artificial intelligence developer Z.ai has raised its year-end annual recurring revenue (ARR) outlook by 25 per cent to US$3 billion, as the firm indicated its fresh US$5 billion war chest had helped clear its computing capacity bottlenecks for the time being. The updated ARR projection, up from a previous estimate of about US$2.4 billion, was disclosed during an investor call on Wednesday, according to a transcript seen by the South China Morning Post. The revised guidance comes days... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367755/chinas-zai-raises-revenue-target-25-after-us5-billion-cash-injection?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367755/chinas-zai-raises-revenue-target-25-after-us5-billion-cash-injection?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:31:13 +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’s ruling Communist Party mouthpiece has rejected US allegations that Chinese artificial intelligence companies conducted “industrial-scale” distillation of American frontier models, warning that Beijing would respond if Washington continued to suppress China’s AI industry. In a commentary published on Wednesday, People’s Daily said the US claims were “without factual or legal basis” and accused Washington of “politicising” a normal technical and commercial practice. The strong stance came... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3367717/peoples-daily-rejects-us-claims-malicious-ai-distillation-warns-countermeasures?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3367717/peoples-daily-rejects-us-claims-malicious-ai-distillation-warns-countermeasures?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:35:08 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang TikTok parent ByteDance has scored another hit in China with Hongguo, an artificial intelligence-powered short-drama platform. Launched in 2023, Hongguo quickly became a household name by riding China’s short-drama boom. A surge in AI-generated content propelled it past some of the country’s biggest professional streaming platforms, while iterations of AI-animated dramas – using AI video models including ByteDance’s Seedance – gave it further lift. Hongguo has overtaken the country’s four... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367664/bytedances-ai-enhanced-short-drama-app-eclipses-chinas-netflix-rivals-combined?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367664/bytedances-ai-enhanced-short-drama-app-eclipses-chinas-netflix-rivals-combined?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:00:50 +0000 Chong Ming Lee Chong Ming Lee A DeepSeek engineer has issued a stark warning about the potential concentration of advanced artificial intelligence and resources in proprietary US developers Anthropic and OpenAI, intensifying a growing debate in China over calls by US industry leaders to “pace” AI development amid safety concerns. The comments preceded an expected meeting between President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump on September 24, where AI safety may emerge as a key point of dialogue as the two countries race... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3367605/deepseek-ai-engineer-slams-anthropic-openai-over-pacing-calls-invokes-nazi-germany?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3367605/deepseek-ai-engineer-slams-anthropic-openai-over-pacing-calls-invokes-nazi-germany?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:30:14 +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 Minxiao Chang Minxiao Chang Researchers from China’s leading universities and tech giants are setting their sights on a crucial new front in the AI race with the US: developing systems capable of building better versions of themselves without human intervention. In a joint paper published on Thursday, researchers from ByteDance, Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, among others, outlined a five-stage road map for recursive self-improvement (RSI). The study, titled “The Last AI Built by... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367486/chinese-researchers-chart-five-stage-path-toward-last-ai-built-humans?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367486/chinese-researchers-chart-five-stage-path-toward-last-ai-built-humans?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:30:06 +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