Tencent’s Q1 2026 revenue rose 9% to RMB 196.5 billion but missed analyst estimates near RMB 199 billion, largely due to slower gaming growth and timing effects from the Spring Festival, even as profits surg...
China’s DDR5 ramp is being driven by domestic DRAM from CXMT reaching downstream module makers, enabling companies like Powev and Comay to launch server and enterprise memory products using more China‑based...
Alibaba is aggressively building AI infrastructure and cloud capacity—potentially exceeding its US$56B capex plan—while Tencent is scaling AI spending more cautiously around products and services; both are a...
AI scientist Li Hongzhi—former head of the GenAI Group at Microsoft Asia and a longtime Microsoft Research leader—has joined Tongji University in Shanghai as a distinguished tenured professor after returning...
Microsoft’s new Driver Quality Initiative (DQI), announced at WinHEC 2026, aims to improve Windows reliability by raising driver engineering standards across the ecosystem and adding Cloud‑Initiated Driver R...
The claim is inaccurate: Grok 3 launched in February 2025, not May 12, 2026, and available comparisons do not show it broadly outperforming GPT‑5; by May 2026 it was already being retired from xAI’s API as n...
Mini Shai‑Hulud was a May 2026 supply‑chain worm that hijacked GitHub Actions pipelines to publish malicious versions of 42 TanStack npm packages (84 versions), eventually spreading to 170+ packages across n...
2U announced a new edX app inside ChatGPT on May 14, 2026 that lets users discover, compare, and explore university programs through natural‑language questions, bringing edX’s catalog directly into an AI int...
Iran has created the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA), requiring ships to obtain approval—and potentially pay transit tolls—before crossing the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint that carries about 20% of gl...
Bank of America now estimates the AI data center systems market could reach about $1.7 trillion by 2030, up from earlier forecasts around $1.2 trillion–$1.4 trillion, driven by accelerating hyperscaler spend...
Reuters reported that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait quietly carried out cross‑border strikes against Iran‑backed militias inside Iraq during the Iran war, targeting drone and missile sites near the Saudi border an...
Citigroup cleared the final regulatory hurdles in 2026 to establish a wholly foreign‑owned securities firm in mainland China after about four years of applications and delays; the timing coincided with CEO J...