57 h. ago China’s Akeso gets share boost as data shows cancer drug’s benefits

Shares of Chinese drug firm Akeso – likened by some Western media outlets to artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek – rose after the company unveiled clinical-trial data showing that its lung-cancer drug outperformed a highly effective existing treatment. The data showed that ivonescimab had “a decisive and strong positive outcome with both significant and clinically meaningful benefits”, Akeso said in a filing with the Hong Kong stock exchange on Monday. The drug, used along with...

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3 d. ago Chinese firm thanks ‘sales consultant' Trump as tariff threat spurs orders

A Chinese exporter said it has seen a sudden surge in orders as US humanoid robot makers and artificial intelligence (AI) companies – including industry leader OpenAI – rush to secure critical components amid Washington’s threat to impose an additional 100 per cent tariff on goods from the country. MyActuator, a Suzhou-based manufacturer of intelligent drive modules for humanoid robots, has received more than 1,000 new orders in the past week alone, according to a person familiar with the...

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8 d. ago US warned Dutch Nexperia CEO must go to avoid entity list fallout: court

US officials told their Dutch counterparts that the Chinese CEO of Nexperia “will have to be replaced” for the company to be exempt from Washington’s entity list, newly disclosed court documents show. The disclosure comes after the Dutch government effectively seized control of the semiconductor firm, a subsidiary of the Chinese company Wingtech, forcing a change in management under an obscure law known as the Goods Availability Act. In doing so, the Dutch authorities removed founding CEO Zhang...

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8 d. ago Chinese autonomous driving firm WeRide taps banks for Hong Kong listing, sources say

Chinese autonomous driving firm WeRide taps banks for Hong Kong listing, sources say  Reuters

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2 w. ago Zenas Bets $2B+ in Autoimmune Agreement With Chinese Firm InnoCare

Zenas Bets $2B+ in Autoimmune Agreement With Chinese Firm InnoCare  BioSpace

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2 w. ago Will a Chinese firm’s Bali beach lift project alter the local landscape?

The Bali heat proved too much for Zhang Min, a 30-year-old tourist from Chengdu, one afternoon last month. She had made it to a cliff above one of the Indonesian holiday destination’s most sought-after scenic spots, but was exhausted by the journey. “The roads are really poor,” Zhang said as her group stopped above the T. Rex-shaped headland – a unique land mass that has made Kelingking one of the world’s most photographed beaches. Her group opted against hiking down a steep, sun-exposed trail...

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4 w. ago Alibaba integrates Nvidia’s AI robotics tools on cloud platform

Alibaba Group Holding and Nvidia on Wednesday unveiled a collaboration that will see the US semiconductor giant’s suite of “physical” artificial intelligence tools integrated into the Chinese tech firm’s machine learning-focused cloud platform for AI. Users of Alibaba Cloud, the AI and cloud computing services unit of Alibaba, are now able to access Nvidia’s embodied AI development toolkit, including data processing, real-world reinforcement learning and model training, according to the...

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last month Chinese Mining Firm Downplays Toxic Waste Spill as Residents Reel From Impacts

Chinese Mining Firm Downplays Toxic Waste Spill as Residents Reel From Impacts  Inside Climate News

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