18 h. ago How China cracked the US ‘super code’ that controls most power grids in the world

China is no longer using American software to run its power grid. The Southern Regional Electricity Market (SREM) – the world’s largest unified power market – has switched fully to Tianquan, a solver developed by Chinese engineers with speeds 14 per cent faster than American products, according to a report by the official Science and Technology Daily. It follows recent reports that the State Grid, Huawei and many other leading Chinese companies have abandoned US solvers. If China no longer needs...

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25 h. ago Chinese team builds optical chip AI that is 100 times faster than Nvidia’s market leader

Chinese scientists have unveiled an optical computing chip that outperformed Nvidia’s leading AI hardware by over a hundredfold in speed and energy efficiency – particularly for generative tasks such as video production and image synthesis. The LightGen chip was developed by a team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tsinghua University, harnessing the speed of light to execute complex artificial intelligence workloads. With more than 2 million photonic neurons integrated into a compact chip,...

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38 h. ago The Chinese Market, An Insider’s View with Chow Tai Fook, China’s Leading Company

The Chinese Market, An Insider’s View with Chow Tai Fook, China’s Leading Company  Monochrome Watches

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48 h. ago Laos cleared to export fresh durians to China as Malaysia, Thailand face new rival

Laos has received approval to begin exporting fresh durians to China, becoming the latest Southeast Asian nation to vie for a slice of the vast Chinese market for the tropical fruit. China’s General Administration of Customs said on its website that Laos was given clearance to begin exports from this past Friday as long as its shipments met phytosanitary standards. Laos could emerge as a challenger in China’s increasingly crowded durian market, as it benefits from cheap labour, logistical...

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61 h. ago Nvidia Stock Gains. This China Chip Company Jumps 700% as It Takes Aim at AI Leader.

Nvidia Stock Gains. This China Chip Company Jumps 700% as It Takes Aim at AI Leader.  Barron's

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2 d. ago Chinese AI chipmaker MetaX shares jump nearly 600% in market debut

Chinese AI chipmaker MetaX shares jump nearly 600% in market debut  Yahoo Finance

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3 d. ago China’s Qwen and DeepSeek edge out US AI models in Christian values benchmark

Chinese artificial intelligence models from Alibaba Cloud and DeepSeek have edged out US-developed models to feature in the top six of a new ranking of leading AI models’ alignment with Christian worldviews. Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen and DeepSeek’s R1 models were evaluated along with a host of leading US models as part of Colorado-based AI company Gloo’s Flourishing AI Christian (FAI-C) benchmark, which was launched on Monday. Led by former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, Gloo said its benchmark tested AI...

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3 d. ago E&E News: VW’s $3.5B gamble: Can it win back share in the competitive Chinese market?

E&E News: VW’s $3.5B gamble: Can it win back share in the competitive Chinese market?  POLITICO Pro

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7 d. ago Rosewood hotel brand of Hong Kong’s Chow Tai Fook is not for sale, sources say

Hong Kong-based Chow Tai Fook Enterprises (CTFE), the private investment holding company of the Cheng family and the parent firm of debt-ridden New World Development (NWD), has no plans to sell its prized Rosewood brand, according to sources familiar with the matter. “Rosewood has delivered exceptional results in recent years and is one of the family’s most cherished luxury hotel brands,” a source said. The group’s properties were operating as usual, with strategic investments in nearly 30...

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8 d. ago Chow Tai Fook sells Australian energy assets to Singapore group for US$4.3 billion

Chow Tai Fook Enterprises (CTFE), the parent company of embattled Hong Kong developer New World Development (NWD), is selling Australian utility Alinta Energy to a Singapore-based group for A$6.5 billion (US$4.3 billion). Sembcorp Industries will acquire 100 per cent ownership of Alinta and its units as well as Latrobe Valley Power (LVP) and its subsidiaries from Pioneer Sail Holdings, which is owned by CTFE and Pioneer Sail Singapore, according to Sembcorp’s filing with the Singapore stock...

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9 d. ago What to know about Nvidia's Chinese competitors as Trump opens up the market

What to know about Nvidia's Chinese competitors as Trump opens up the market  Axios

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1 week ago ‘Like a market’: Chinese marriage brokers hunt for brides in Nepal

Late one night in southern Nepal last month, whispers spread of an unusual wedding taking place. Inside a modest home, an 18-year-old girl was about to be wed to a Chinese national nearly twice her age. The match was illegal. Nepal’s minimum age for marriage is 20, and the bride’s youth alarmed onlookers. Police were called and the ceremony in Bara district was swiftly brought to a halt. But the episode shone a spotlight on the trafficking of young Nepali women into marriage with Chinese...

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1 week ago ‘A big opportunity’: why Spain’s new electric car plan hands an opening to China

Spain’s ambitious multi-billion-euro plan to become Europe’s leading player in the electric vehicle market presents a golden opportunity for Chinese car brands, which could be vital to the strategy’s success, according to analysts. The Spain Auto 2030 Plan, presented by Madrid on Wednesday, seeks to mobilise government funding to provide consumer subsidies, support the construction of charging stations and help the Spanish car industry – which drives about 10 per cent of the country’s economic...

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1 week ago Chinese firms gear up for Russia’s reopening amid talks aimed at peace deal

Chinese cross-border e-commerce entrepreneur Andy Guo has just opened two warehouses covering a total of 5,000 square metres (53,820 sq ft) on the outskirts of Moscow. He said the move was not about addressing logistical bottlenecks, but preparing his business for a potential geopolitical shift that could reshape his fastest-growing yet most uncertain overseas market if Russia and Ukraine reach a peace deal. US President Donald Trump has continued to push for the end of hostilities between...

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1 week ago Chinese phonemakers seize on Apple’s AI struggles to grab market share

Chinese phonemakers seize on Apple’s AI struggles to grab market share  Financial Times

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2 w. ago US senators seek ban on Nvidia’s advanced chips to China, experts warn ‘shortsighted’ move further erodes Nvidia’s back into Chinese market

US senators seek ban on Nvidia’s advanced chips to China, experts warn ‘shortsighted’ move further erodes Nvidia’s back into Chinese market  Global Times

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2 w. ago ‘Blue ocean market’: why Brazil is becoming a magnet for Chinese investment

With their domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, China’s firms are continuing to widen their overseas footprints in search of new, more lucrative markets. In this series, we examine China Inc.’s next phase of “going global” and the complex, challenging international environment its companies have chosen to enter. In early November, the chairman of one of China’s top construction machinery makers was spotted touring potential factory sites in Piracicaba, a city in...

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2 w. ago Why China sees Brazil as ‘last untapped blue ocean market’ for investment boom

With their domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, China’s firms are continuing to widen their overseas footprints in search of new, more lucrative markets. In this series, we examine China Inc.’s next phase of “going global” and the complex, challenging international environment its companies have chosen to enter. In early November, the chairman of one of China’s top construction machinery makers was spotted touring potential factory sites in Piracicaba, a city in...

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2 w. ago Kuaishou debuts multimodal AI video model with ‘Nano Banana’ editing capability

Chinese short video platform Kuaishou on Monday launched a new artificial intelligence video generation model to challenge OpenAI’s Sora and start-up Runway in the global market for AI content creation. Kuaishou, which competes with TikTok’s Chinese sibling Douyin in China, said Kling O1 was the first unified multimodal video model in the industry, based on an architecture that integrated diverse video creation tasks – generation, precise and controllable editing and understanding – into a...

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2 w. ago ‘It is fake’: why US industry leader refused to believe China’s robot march clip

On November 14, Chinese robotics firm UBtech released footage showing hundreds of Walker S2 humanoid robots standing in precise formation inside a warehouse. The machines turned their heads in unison, waved their arms and marched into shipping containers – a scene so visually arresting it evoked sci-fi blockbusters like I, Robot. Brett Adcock, founder and CEO of leading US robotics company Figure, responded with disbelief. He immediately took to social media to suggest the footage was...

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