China Tech News and Headlines

Aug 07, 2026 19:43 PM

Beyond the Backflips: Unitree Robotics Faces High Expectations Ahead of Shanghai Debut
Backed by tech heavyweights including DeepSeek and Tencent, the startup’s 6 billion yuan IPO reflects soaring investor confidence even as its products remain largely confined to early-stage real-world applications
Aug 07, 2026 16:55 PM

ByteDance Accepts AI Gap, Sticks With In-House Models
CEO Liang Rubo said ByteDance will accept a short-term lag in large language models to build a solid foundation for achieving artificial general intelligence
Aug 06, 2026 16:14 PM

MiniMax Shares Surge After Joining Hong Kong Stock Connect
The AI model developer’s stock rose as much as 22.8% during the trading day, offering a reprieve from a recent selloff after its IPO lock-up period expired
Aug 05, 2026 19:38 PM

Chinese Robotics Startup PokeBot Raises Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
The fundraising could underpin the months-old firm’s ambition to build household robots to perform complex tasks like cooking
Aug 05, 2026 03:16 AM

U.S. Drafts Ban on Chinese Optical Modules, Exposing Mutual Supply Chain Risks
A proposed FCC import ban, expected in 2026, sent North American optical-communications shares higher while underscoring the industry’s heavy dependence on Chinese suppliers and manufacturing capacity
Aug 04, 2026 17:44 PM

Alibaba Releases New Qwen Model, Consolidates AI Office Tools
The dual release of Qwen3.8-Max and the integrated QwenWork platform marks a strategic push under new leadership to unify the Chinese tech giant’s workplace technology strategy
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