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China’s Singles’ Day Discounts Struggle to Unlock More Spending

China’s Singles’ Day promotions are meeting cautious household budgets, with early sales broadly level with last year. Official data show a more uneven picture than a blanket spending slump: services and online

November 11, 2026

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Intrinsic Core open source industrial robotics platform launched at ROSCon 2026 Toronto

Google Open-Sources Its Industrial Robot Stack in a Play for Physical AI Dominance

Google's Intrinsic open-sourced its complete industrial robotics stack at ROSCon 2026 in Toronto, giving factory developers free access to real-time control, pose estimation and motion planning. The Android playbook has arrived in

September 23, 2026

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Alibaba T-Head Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator chip unveiled at Apsara Cloud Conference in Hangzhou, China

Alibaba’s Zhenwu V900: The AI Chip China Built While Nvidia Was Barred

Alibaba unveiled the Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator at its Apsara Cloud Conference in Hangzhou, claiming it as China's most powerful AI chip. The announcement, timed two days before the Xi-Trump summit in

September 22, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·News·Technology

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SoftBank Launches Record $11 Billion Junk Bond Sale: Masayoshi Son’s $64B AI Bet

SoftBank Group launched a record $11 billion junk bond Monday to fund its OpenAI third tranche, bringing Masayoshi Son's cumulative AI bet to $64.6 billion. The deal, the biggest non-financial corporate bond

September 22, 2026

Business·Economy·News

Alibaba Zhenwu V900 AI chip unveiled at Apsara Conference 2026 by CEO Eddie Wu

Alibaba Unveils Zhenwu V900: China’s Most Powerful AI Chip as Xi-Trump Summit Nears

Alibaba unveiled the Zhenwu V900 chip at the Apsara Conference, claiming 3x performance over its predecessor and 500,000-card cluster support for frontier model training. The announcement came two days before Xi Jinping

September 22, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·News·Technology

Naive AI Raised $400 Million to Build a Model It Won’t Pre-Train

Naive AI, founded in Beijing in February 2026 by Tsinghua professor Dai Jifeng, has raised $400 million from Tencent and HSG at a $1.42 billion valuation. The company is not pre-training from

September 20, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·News·Technology

Alibaba Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash agentic omnimodal AI model interface on a screen

Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash: One Model That Hears, Sees and Acts

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, its first model built around agentic workflows, on September 18. The model cuts audio inference costs by 98 percent against its predecessor and handles text, images, audio

September 20, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·News·Technology

Xi Jinping speaking at 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, September 2026

Xi Jinping Proposes BRICS AI Open-Source Community as China Targets Global South

Xi Jinping proposed a BRICS AI open-source community at the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, pledging DeepSeek and Qwen large language models to the Global South as Washington debated AI safety

September 14, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·Government and Politics·News·Technology

An Alibaba Cloud exhibition stand advertising the company's continuing investment in cloud and AI infrastructure

Alibaba Sells $10.2 Billion of Stock for AI, and Hong Kong Marks It Down 10%

Alibaba priced 710 million new shares at HK$112.70 to raise $10.2 billion, all of it for AI infrastructure, and Hong Kong shareholders took an 8.4 per cent discount for the privilege. The

August 25, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·Business·News·Technology

The Alibaba Group headquarters campus at Xixi Park in Hangzhou, China, known as Taobao City

Alibaba Explained: What It Is, Whether It Is Legit, and the Wheels Problem

Alibaba Group is a real, audited company listed in New York and Hong Kong with 1.02 trillion yuan of revenue. Whether the supplier behind any given listing is legitimate is a separate

August 24, 2026

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China’s Singles’ Day Discounts Struggle to Unlock More Spending

Google Open-Sources Its Industrial Robot Stack in a Play for Physical AI Dominance

Alibaba’s Zhenwu V900: The AI Chip China Built While Nvidia Was Barred

SoftBank Launches Record $11 Billion Junk Bond Sale: Masayoshi Son’s $64B AI Bet

Alibaba Unveils Zhenwu V900: China’s Most Powerful AI Chip as Xi-Trump Summit Nears

Naive AI Raised $400 Million to Build a Model It Won’t Pre-Train

Xi Jinping Proposes BRICS AI Open-Source Community as China Targets Global South

Alibaba Explained: What It Is, Whether It Is Legit, and the Wheels Problem

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