China Tech News and Headlines

Aug 01, 2026 01:37 AM

DeepSeek Releases Official V4-Flash Model as China’s AI Race Intensifies
Startup says the updated model delivers stronger agent capabilities and better benchmark results, while maintaining aggressive pricing amid mounting competition
Jul 31, 2026 18:07 PM

ByteDance, MiniMax Roll Out Upgraded AI-Video Models
Seedance 2.5 and H3 have been designed to create longer content as both companies double down on multimodal context understanding
Jul 31, 2026 02:15 AM

Zhongji Innolight Slides in Hong Kong Debut Following $7 Billion IPO
Global tech sell-off and AI spending fears overshadow the city's largest listing since 2019
Jul 30, 2026 15:02 PM

ByteDance Reshuffles Workplace Tool Feishu in AI Push
ByteDance splits Feishu between Doubao chatbot and Volcano Engine cloud business, cementing AI as the tech giant’s core focus
Jul 29, 2026 23:14 PM

Zhongji Innolight Rebounds After Buyback Plan, Easing Jitters Ahead of Hong Kong Debut
The optical-module maker’s shares recovered after management proposed a multibillion-yuan buyback and denied rumors of steep product price cuts, offering some relief to a sector hit by profit-taking and global AI hardware volatility
Jul 29, 2026 19:05 PM

Lenovo Capital Executive Warns of Reckoning for China’s Crowded AI-Powered Robotics Sector
Managing director Wang Guangxi predicts only a handful of domestic robot-makers will be successful, noting hardware alone may not be a viable long-term strategy for startups
Jul 29, 2026 19:01 PM

U.S. Takes Aim at Chinese Robot-Makers With Sweeping Import Ban
The Federal Communications Commission imposes the restrictions, citing concerns over national security and cybersecurity
Jul 29, 2026 17:16 PM

SK Hynix’s Earnings Miss Adds to Anxiety Over AI Boom
Despite a more than 500% surge in second-quarter profit, the South Korean memory-chip maker’s shares plunged as investors question the sustainability of tech giants’ infrastructure spending
Jul 29, 2026 04:57 AM

Consumer-Electronics Makers Bet on AI Agents as Phones, Glasses Compete
At a Caixin roundtable, executives and researchers said the next generation of devices will center on always-on AI agents, with debate intensifying over whether phones or glasses will become the dominant personal AI terminal
Jul 29, 2026 00:17 AM

Moonshot Open-Sources Kimi K3 as U.S.-China AI Tensions Intensify
The Chinese startup released the weights, technical report and infrastructure behind its flagship model, drawing fresh attention to a widening dispute over AI safety, intellectual property claims and access to advanced technology
Jul 28, 2026 18:40 PM

TikTok Faces New EU Penalty Threat Over Children’s Safety
The European Commission’s preliminary findings allege that the short-video platform’s account settings and recommendation algorithms violate the Digital Services Act
Jul 24, 2026 22:28 PM

AgiBot Begins Hong Kong IPO Process as China’s Embodied-AI Startups Race to List
The Shanghai-based humanoid robot maker becomes the first among a new crop of Chinese embodied-AI companies to formally disclose listing plans
Jul 24, 2026 21:23 PM

Tencent Folds Multimodal, LLM Teams Into New AI Unit
The restructuring places chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu over a new foundational-model department as the company seeks to sharpen execution in a more competitive multimodal market
Jul 22, 2026 00:08 AM

Kai-Fu Lee Says AI Will Soon Reshape Corporate Reporting and Management
01.AI’s founder says companies that fail to embrace AI risk obsolescence within three years, as the startup pushes tools aimed at senior executives
Jul 21, 2026 16:18 PM

Flashy Robot Demos at WAIC Mask Struggles With Real-World Deployment
Despite an influx of capital and demonstrations at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, developers warn that widespread commercialization of humanoid robots remains hindered by high marginal costs and immature foundational models
Jul 21, 2026 03:46 AM

Kimi K3 Demand Surge Forces Moonshot AI to Pause Sign-Ups
A rush of users overwhelmed compute resources days after launch, as the model’s scale and pricing sent shock waves through China’s AI sector and beyond
Jul 21, 2026 00:30 AM

Chinese AI Chip Startups Look Beyond the Cloud to Edge Devices
Developers are betting on robots and smart hardware as China’s electronics supply chain pushes large language models onto local devices, despite persistent hurdles in power, cost and commercialization
Jul 21, 2026 00:00 AM

Biren Unveils 1,024-GPU Optical Super Node Architecture
Debuted at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the near-packaged optics solution offers a commercially viable path past the 128-chip cap of legacy wiring systems
Jul 20, 2026 16:27 PM

As AI Agents Take Off, Integration Becomes an Obstacle
Enterprise demand has ‘at least doubled’ this year, Tencent Cloud executive Wu Yunsheng says, as businesses struggle to get the technology to work with legacy systems
Jul 18, 2026 04:41 AM

Zhongji Innolight Clears Hong Kong Listing Hearing for Potential $7 Billion IPO
The Shenzhen-listed optical module giant is seeking funds for global expansion and acquisitions as AI data center demand boosts earnings