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China’s Shopping Festival Turns Into a Conversation

Shoppers are testing AI chat for product shortlists while platforms weave assistants into the path to checkout. The technology fits messy retail decisions. Control of the first question—and trust in ...
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A Sabotaged Model Run, a Fired Intern, and a $30 Million Second Act

In 2024, a ByteDance video-model team lost months to failures that looked like physics breaking. Engineers later traced the chaos to hidden code linked to a rival intern. He was dismissed and sued.
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China CPI Rises 0.9% in First Three Quarters

TMTPOST — China’s consumer price index rose 0.9% year-on-year in the first three quarters of 2026, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics. By category, prices for food, tobacco, ...
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Legend Capital and Industry Backers Join DeepSeek’s 100 Billion Yuan Round

Legend Capital, the venture arm of Legend Holdings and part of the broader Lenovo ecosystem, has joined DeepSeek’s latest funding round of approximately 100 billion yuan ($15 billion), according to ...
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iPhone Duo Premiums Collapse From 58,500 Yuan Peak

Apple’s first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, went on sale in China on October 23 amid multi-day queues at stores including those in Macau, while secondary-market premiums collapsed from earlier highs ...
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EHang Launches AAM Sandbox With Malaysia’s CAAM

TMTPOST — EHang Holdings Limited has entered a regulatory sandbox cooperation with the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia to examine safety, technical and regulatory requirements for its proposed ...
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DeepSeek Raises About 100 Billion Yuan in Latest Round

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has raised approximately 100 billion yuan, or about $15 billion, in its latest funding round, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The company ...
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Alibaba Cloud Holds Over 45% of China’s Auto Public Cloud

Alibaba Cloud captured 45.1% of China’s automotive public cloud infrastructure market in the first half of 2026, according to the latest International Data Corporation tracker. The overall market ...
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U.S. Treasury Proposes Wider Outbound Investment Curbs on AI

The U.S. Treasury Department on October 22 released a notice of proposed rulemaking under the Comprehensive Outbound Investment National Security Act that would expand restrictions on American private ...
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Europe Is Sorting China’s Car Brands by Showroom, Not by Factory

Two Chery brands crossed into France on the same spring morning. They shared parentage, engineering and a pre-built web of sales and service points. They did not share a price ladder. Jaecoo opened in ...
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China’s EV Charging Points Reach 24.78 Million

TMTPOST — China’s electric-vehicle charging infrastructure totaled 24.777 million guns by the end of September 2026, up 37.2% year on year, according to data released by the National Energy ...