Chinese tech giants like Alibaba face the same market skepticism as Meta: investors want proof that billions in AI infrastructure spending will generate sustainable profits.
A rotation out of struggling US AI and chip stocks into cheaper Chinese tech and e commerce names has pushed the Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index up 1.7%, even as the Fed held rates steady at 3.5–3.75% with...
A Clearwater Analytics study of 178 senior asset manager executives found 63% of firms increased AI spending by more than 50% in the past 12 months, and 85% plan to raise budgets by at least 50% in the year...
Chinese motorcycle exports reached an all time high of 26.2 million units in the first half of 2026, up 23.2% year on year, valued at US$11.28 billion, with US bound shipments surging 40% to 3.9 million moto...
Unitree Robotics will launch its IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market, selling 40.45 million new shares (10% of its enlarged share capital) to raise approximately 4.2 billion yuan ( $619 million).
RedNote (Xiaohongshu) is building a 600 megawatt, $2.2 billion AI data centre in Inner Mongolia's Ulanqab region, targeting delivery by Q1 2027, to power its expanding AI capabilities and support its planned...
MiniMax launched the H3 multimodal video generation model on July 31, 2026, directly challenging ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 with open weights, dramatically lower pricing, and a unified omni modal architecture...
On July 30, 2026, OpenAI slashed GPT 5.6 Luna API prices by 80% to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, and cut GPT 5.6 Terra by 20% to $2/$12.
Situational Awareness, an AI focused hedge fund run by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, was forced to sell its entire $16–$24 billion public stock portfolio at steep discounts in late July 202...
A visit to Shanghai's AI labs, centered on an ink wash map that visualizes AI as a landscape, reveals China is positioning itself not simply as an AI technology leader, but as the future arbiter of AI govern...
The Pentagon added Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University to its Section 1286 national security blacklist on July 23, 2026, bringing the total to 130 institutions across China, Russia, and Iran—w...
CGN Energy International's Daesan Phase II gas fired power plant in Seosan, South Korea, began commercial operations on July 24, 2026, adding 557 MW of capacity that can generate up to 3.9 billion kWh annual...