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Trouble at TikTok
ByteDance’s wildly popular short video app has gotten caught up in U.S.-China tensions, with Washington worried that personal data on TikTok’s 100 million U.S. users could fall into Beijing’s hands.
Cover Story: Will TikTok Be the Next Huawei?
Founder Zhang Yiming’s efforts to defuse rising political pressures fail to gain traction as U.S. moves to follow India in banning the popular video app citing data security concerns
China’s Tech Giants Wage Lunar New Year Subsidy War to Win AI Users
Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance flood the holiday with digital red envelopes, driving billions of interactions and rapid AI adoption across smaller cities and older consumers
ByteDance’s Doubao Dominates Spring Festival Gala With 1.9 Billion AI Interactions
Aggressive holiday push underscores intensifying rivalry with Tencent and Alibaba as tech giants race to embed generative AI into daily life
Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.5-Plus, Undercutting Gemini 3 Pro on Cost
Chinese tech giant says new open-source AI model rivals Google’s flagship system while charging a fraction of the API price
ByteDance Unveils Doubao 2.0 AI Model to Tackle Complex Tasks
Upgrade strengthens multimodal reasoning and autonomous task execution as competition with Alibaba, Ant Group and DeepSeek intensifies
Hollywood Isn’t a Fan of ByteDance’s New AI Video Tool
The Motion Picture Association of America and a major actors union slam Seedance 2.0 for infringing on intellectual property in ways that included the unauthorized use of artists’ voices and likenesses
The Week Ahead (Feb. 16-22): Japan to Hold Election; Lula to Visit South Korea
South Korean court to rule on ex-president’s insurrection case, China implements new anti-money laundering regulations
In Depth: China’s Beauty Brands Shine Online as Foreign Rivals Falter
Behind the rise of domestic firms is a playbook built on dominating online channels, keen insight into local trends, and rapid decision-making and product development
CX Daily: EU Crackdown Puts Chinese E-Commerce to the Test
From Shein to Temu and AliExpress, Europe is escalating investigations and new rules that could upend the cross-border business’s low-cost model
Galaxea AI Raises $144 Million as China’s Robot Investment Frenzy Mounts
Valuation reaches 10 billion yuan as investors pour capital into China’s embodied AI race
CX Daily: Chinese Automakers’ Need for Speed Comes With a Price
Rapid new model launches has helped domestic carmakers dominate the world’s largest auto market, but the strategy has come at a cost
ByteDance Joins Alibaba, Tencent in Lunar New Year AI Giveaway War
Cash handouts, robots and cars mark a costly push by China’s tech giants to win users and define habits in a fast-growing AI market
Alibaba Unveils Robot ‘Brain,’ Raising Stakes in Embodied AI Race
New RynnBrain model claims to outperform global rivals as Chinese firms and U.S. startups pour money into machine reasoning for the physical world
China’s Fixed-Asset Investment in Singapore Jumps More Than Eightfold
Chinese companies are aggressively building operations in the city-state, attracted by its sound business environment and gateway to Southeast Asia
ByteDance Unveils New AI Video Model, Sparking Rally in Chinese Tech Stocks
Seedance 2.0 boasts hyper-realistic visuals, but creators flag potential privacy risks regarding training data
In Depth: EU Crackdown Puts Chinese E-Commerce to the Test
From Shein to Temu and AliExpress, Europe is escalating investigations and new rules that could upend the cross-border business’s low-cost model
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