More than 100 Baidu robotaxis froze mid-traffic in Wuhan. The age of the mass fleet failure has arrived.
More than 100 Baidu robotaxis froze mid-traffic in Wuhan. The age of the mass fleet failure has arrived.

On Tuesday evening in Wuhan, more than 100 of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis stopped moving. They did not pull over. They did not activate an emergency protocol. They simply froze, scattered across the city’s roads and elevated highways, some in the middl…

Xiaomi hires Tesla’s former head of sales in China to lead its auto retail push
Xiaomi hires Tesla’s former head of sales in China to lead its auto retail push

Xiaomi has recruited Kong Yanshuang, formerly Tesla’s General Manager for the China region, to take charge of its growing automotive sales operations. The hire signals a significant professionalization of Xiaomi’s EV retail strategy as the company targ…

China’s third-largest chip foundry just filed for a Hong Kong listing. The real story is the $5 billion fab behind it.
China’s third-largest chip foundry just filed for a Hong Kong listing. The real story is the $5 billion fab behind it.

Nexchip Semiconductor filed for a listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Tuesday, joining a stampede of Chinese chip companies turning to the city’s capital markets as Beijing pours resources into building a domestic semiconductor supply chain that…

ByteDance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2.0 as it begins cautious global rollout
ByteDance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2.0 as it begins cautious global rollout

Six weeks ago, a video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt on a rooftop went viral. It was, of course, not real. It was generated by Seedance 2.0, ByteDance’s AI video model, and it set off a firestorm that drew cease-and-desist letters from six major Hol…

South Korea turns to Russian naphtha as Asia’s chip supply chain feels the squeeze
South Korea turns to Russian naphtha as Asia’s chip supply chain feels the squeeze

When Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz in late February, choking off the corridor through which a fifth of the world’s oil and gas flows, the immediate consequences were predictable: crude prices spiked, energy markets convulsed, and geopoli…

Apple Intelligence briefly goes live in China without approval, raising the spectre of regulatory penalties
Apple Intelligence briefly goes live in China without approval, raising the spectre of regulatory penalties

In the small hours of Tuesday morning, something unexpected appeared on iPhones across mainland China. Apple Intelligence, the suite of AI-powered tools that the company has spent nearly two years trying to bring to its largest market outside the US, f…

Mainland Chinese tech firms are flooding into Hong Kong as the West tightens the door
Mainland Chinese tech firms are flooding into Hong Kong as the West tightens the door

The number of mainland Chinese companies listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange rose from 30 in 2024 to 76 in 2025, an increase of 153 per cent, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Hong Kong reclaimed the top global position for IPO fundraising last …

The least surprising chapter of the Manus story is what’s happening right now

Did anyone think there would not be a reckoning over this tie-up?

BYD plans 20 Canadian dealerships within a year as 6.1% tariff deal opens the floodgates
BYD plans 20 Canadian dealerships within a year as 6.1% tariff deal opens the floodgates

BYD is moving fast to establish a physical retail presence in Canada, with plans to open 20 branded dealerships within its first year in the market. The world’s largest EV maker is already scouting locations in the Greater Toronto Area.

The push com…