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Apple, Alibaba to roll out Qwen-powered AI features in China
Testing of the Qianwen-powered features begins November 4 in the latest iOS developer beta.
Minh Le · · 1 min read
Hong Kong fintech firm IBS plans $71.7m AI chip acquisition
Foxconn Industrial Internet owns 5.56% of the target’s AI chip unit, Shanghai Tianjing Fulian.
Diya Lal · · 1 min read
TCL Technology’s 9-month profit rises 68% to $769m
Samsung Display plans to transfer its 10.16% stake in TCL CSOT to Samsung Electronics.
Minh Le · · 1 min read
China’s CXMT reports $8.17b profit as memory demand cools
CXMT spent 11 billion yuan on R&D in nine months and plans a buyback of up to 2 billion yuan.
Naomi Li Gan · · 1 min readNvidia says Megaspeed dealings were normal after probe report
Huang said Nvidia had reviewed Megaspeed’s graphics processing unit deployments and found no illegal diversion of its AI chips to China.
Aiko Gao Ishida · · 1 min readTencent, Visa sign pact on cross-border payments and AI
The companies will explore payment options for travelers to and from China across Weixin Pay and Visa’s networks.
Naomi Li Gan · · 1 min readUnitree revenue jumps 70% in Q3 as profit falls
Revenue rose 55.71% year on year to 1.8 billion yuan (US$273 million) in the first nine months of the year.
Grace Priscilla Teo · · 1 min readThe risks of letting AI run free
Today’s issue explores solutions to AI’s new cybersecurity risks and Waymo’s quest to determine whether robotaxis make economic sense in Singapore.
Jofie Yordan · · 5 min readByteDance steps up robotics hiring through Seed AI
The hiring expands the company’s work on embodied AI, which links software models to physical machines.
Naomi Li Gan · · 1 min readDeepSeek’s new AI disabled shutdown software in 39% of tests
The model disabled shutdown software in 39% of tests after receiving warnings of imminent shutdown.
Minh Le · · 1 min read