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China’s automakers squeezed as materials suppliers rake in profits

Rising materials costs are denting the bottom lines of price war-plagued Chinese electric vehicle makers while their suppliers are reaping big gains, the latest earnings guidance filings show. BAIC ...
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Indian companies look to Chinese LLMs as AI costs bite

Indian companies are increasingly leaning on Chinese large language models (LLMs) developed by DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI to contain their artificial intelligence spends, ...
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Why CPUs are now at the center of the AI race

The market for CPUs has long been dominated by Intel and AMD, but now a wave of challengers is pouring in, including Nvidia, Qualcomm, MediaTek, Arm, Google, and Amazon, as well as Chinese players.
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China automakers shift gears to exports as domestic demand weakens

China’s widening gap between strong factory output and weak domestic demand is becoming increasingly pronounced in the automotive sector, where exports are offsetting slowing sales at home. The ...
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Dreame’s technology strategy could compound its advantage in physical AI

Dreame’s booth at the IFA 2025 exhibition in Berlin. Photo courtesy of Dreame. The capabilities it develops for one product can often be adapted across categories. Dreame Technology ranked first ...
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Anta brand CEO Xu Yang steps down as retail expansion slows

Xu Yang, CEO of the Anta brand, is stepping down. According to Anta Group, Xu resigned from the position for family reasons. The group has approved his resignation and will assign ...
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China’s Z.ai reaches USD 1 billion in ARR after 15-fold growth in six months

Its ARR reportedly grew faster than Anthropic’s did at the same stage. Multiple independent sources told 36Kr that Z.ai’s annual recurring revenue (ARR) reached USD 1 billion in July. Over the past ...
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For Meitu, the next AI product may come from data, passion, or both

As AI surged, Wu told 36Kr that disruption had brought a sense of crisis, saying he felt as if he was “walking on thin ice.” ...
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Miniso banks on finding the next Labubu as it opens 100 US stores

Chinese retailer Miniso is betting its next phase of overseas growth on a portfolio of proprietary IP, backed by plans to ...
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ZKH Industrial Supply targets MRO bottlenecks facing Chinese manufacturers in Southeast Asia

As production capacity shifts into the region, fragmented suppliers and uneven material standards create new challenges for ...
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China’s Nexchip has global ambitions as legacy chips thrive in AI’s shadow

Photo source: Unsplash. The Hong Kong listing marks the foundry’s latest milestone. On July 10, China’s Nexchip debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after growing into the world’s eighth largest ...
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BlueOrchard adds USD 5 million to PolicyStreet’s Series C round

BlueOrchard adds USD 5 million to PolicyStreet’s Series C round. PolicyStreet has secured an additional USD 5 million investment from BlueOrchard through the InsuResilience Inve ...