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Foreign-brand phone shipments to China rose 1.8% in April, CAICT data shows

Foreign-branded smartphone shipments to China, a category dominated by Apple, rose 1.8% year-on-year in April to 3.59 million handsets, according to Reuters calculations based on figures published by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the government-run research body that tracks domestic handset shipments. The number is a meaningful deceleration. Foreign-brand shipments to China grew […]

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China extends AI travel curbs from DeepSeek to other private firms

Top researchers at private Chinese AI companies are being asked to surrender passports, in a quiet expansion of the controls that began at DeepSeek earlier this year. China is widening its informal travel restrictions on senior AI researchers, extending controls that began at DeepSeek earlier this year to a broader group of private-sector firms working at the […]

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GSR Ventures uses its RedNote stake to anchor a new $350M China fund

SR Ventures Management Co., one of the earliest backers of the Chinese social commerce app Xiaohongshu, is raising about $350m for a new China-focused venture fund and is using its existing stake in the app, known internationally as RedNote, as the central pitch, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday citing people familiar with the […]

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China is giving every humanoid robot a 29-character ID code, and over 28,000 already have one

Summary: China has launched a national ID system for humanoid robots, assigning each a 29-character code that tracks it from production to recycling. Over 28,000 robots across 200 models already have IDs. The system logs real-time performance data including joint wear, battery status, and AI training history.   China has launched a national identification system […]

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AI is killing the cheap smartphone. The memory that powers your phone now goes to data centres instead.

In 1985, the best computer a reasonably affluent American could buy was the IBM PC AT, which cost $19,400 in today’s money. Today, a Tecno Spark Go costs $30 in a Nairobi market stall and runs a processor billions of times faster. No other good in history has experienced a cost decline on that scale. […]

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Stellantis wants to build Chinese EVs in Canada and Mexico. Just not in the US.

Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa said on Thursday that the company sees opportunity to produce and sell Chinese-branded vehicles in Mexico and potentially Canada. In the United States, the answer is different. “Now there is no space in the United States. We don’t see that,” Filosa said at a news conference following the company’s investor day […]

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DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated.

DeepSeek has made permanent the 75% price discount on its flagship V4 Pro model. The promotion was originally scheduled to expire on 31 May. The Chinese AI startup’s pricing now ranges from $0.003625 to $0.87 per million tokens, down from $0.0145 to $3.48. The price points are striking in context. OpenAI’s GPT-5 charges $2.50 per […]

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Tesla finally launched FSD in China. Its rivals have been selling self-driving cars there for years.

Tesla announced on Thursday that its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system is now available in China, listing the country among 10 markets where the technology can be accessed. The announcement on X was short on details and marks the first time Tesla has confirmed FSD availability in the world’s largest EV market. It comes a week […]

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Corsair is now using Chinese DRAM in its DDR5 kits. Memory prices could finally drop.

Corsair, one of the most recognisable names in PC components, is shipping DDR5 memory modules built with DRAM manufactured by ChangXin Memory Technologies, China’s largest memory chipmaker. Screenshots posted on X by hardware enthusiast @wxnod show a Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 module, part number CMK5X16G3E60C36A2, with CPU-Z and HWiNFO64 identifying the DRAM manufacturer as ChangXin Technologies […]

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