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Alibaba sues the DOD, seeking removal from a blacklist of companies supporting China's military, says the decision is a violation of constitutional due process (www.bloomberg.com)
12 hours ago China Alibaba

Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from several game studio investments in Japan, including Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio (www.bloomberg.com)
21 hours ago Japan Tencent Tokyo

Tencent starts testing the new Xiaowei AI assistant powered by WeLM and DeepSeek models in its WeChat app in China, in an effort to catch up in the AI race (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago China AI WeChat Tencent

This refurbished Lenovo Chromebook is just $79.99 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
5 days ago Lenovo

Sources: the early Chinese backers of Manus, including HSG and Tencent, plan to buy the AI startup back from Meta at the $2B price Meta paid (www.theinformation.com)
5 days ago China Startup AI Tencent

Sources: a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead of Alibaba's Qwen models, has raised several hundred million dollars at a ~$2B post-money valuation (www.theinformation.com)
6 days ago Alibaba AI

Alibaba's AI unit Tongyi Lab launches the Qwen Robot Suite, its first family of AI models for robots, in pilot testing with some enterprise clients (www.scmp.com)
7 days ago Alibaba AI Robot

Trump's 'Made In the USA' Phone Is Just a Reskinned HTC U24 Pro (mobile.slashdot.org)
8 days ago Trump U.S. HTC

Tencent-backed Enflame receives approval for a Shanghai IPO and plans to raise ~$888M; Enflame is the last of China's four leading AI chipmakers to go to market (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago China IPO AI Tencent Shanghai

Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago China Alibaba

Xiaomi releases MiMo Code V0.1.0, an open-source AI coding assistant that it says outperforms Claude Code on agentic coding and software engineering benchmarks (venturebeat.com)
12 days ago AI Xiaomi

A teardown reveals the Trump Mobile T1 is a gold-painted HTC U24 Pro but features some changes, including memory from Micron instead of SK Hynix (www.ifixit.com)
12 days ago Trump Mobile HTC

Alibaba stock fell ~6.5% and JD.com fell ~6% after China reprimanded e-commerce players over alleged false advertising during the “618” annual shopping festival (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago China Alibaba

Sources: Alibaba replaces DingTalk CEO Chen Hang with Chen Yusen after an internal debate over the enterprise communication app's role in Alibaba's AI strategy (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Alibaba AI

US Labels BYD, Baidu, Alibaba and Other Tech Giants As Aiding China's Military (tech.slashdot.org)
14 days ago China Alibaba

A group of Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba and CXMT, launches a ~$577M PE fund to boost China's “hard tech” sectors amid tightening US export curbs (www.scmp.com)
14 days ago China Alibaba

Xiaomi claims MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed tops 1K tokens/second, a first at the 1T-parameter scale, using a standard 8-GPU commodity node; API trial starts June 9 (decrypt.co)
15 days ago Xiaomi

The US DOD designates some of China's biggest companies, including Alibaba, BYD, and Baidu, as entities that support the Chinese military (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago China Alibaba

Alibaba says it is opening Qwen to third-party AI agents, starting with KFC, Mixue, and others, and Qwen's app serves 100M+ daily lifestyle services engagements (www.scmp.com)
19 days ago Alibaba AI KFC

Alibaba releases Qwen3.7-Plus, a multimodal proprietary model with a 1M-token context window, costing $2 per 1M tokens, 60% less than text-only Qwen3.7-Max (venturebeat.com)
20 days ago Alibaba

Sources: DeepSeek is set to raise ~$7.4B in its first funding round from investors including Tencent and CATL at a valuation of between ~$52B and ~$59B (www.reuters.com)
21 days ago Tencent

Sources: Tencent, which has fallen behind domestic rivals in AI models, plans to test an AI agent for WeChat with a small group of users before a phased rollout (www.ft.com)
22 days ago AI WeChat Tencent

Grab says it commits to “Taiwan's data security and public trust”, after reports of Grab's collaborations with China's Huawei and Alibaba sparked concerns (asia.nikkei.com)
22 days ago China Taiwan Alibaba

Jensen Huang says Microsoft and Nvidia will “reinvent the PC”, starting with 30+ laptops and 10 desktops coming in the fall from Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others (www.cnbc.com)
23 days ago Microsoft Nvidia Lenovo

Lenovo's stock is up 105% in May, marking its biggest monthly gain since 1999, after earnings showed AI-related revenue helped offset rising memory costs (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago AI Lenovo

Tencent bets on smaller AI models in the race with Chinese rivals, as EVP Dowson Tong says AI now contributes 20%+ of its revenue and 95%+ of new internal code (asia.nikkei.com)
26 days ago China AI Tencent

Xiaomi reports Q1 revenue down 11% YoY to ~$14.6B, its first quarterly decline in three years, and net income down 57% to $695M amid a global memory price jump (www.bloomberg.com)
28 days ago Xiaomi

Sources: Chinese government agencies begin imposing overseas travel restrictions on individuals involved in advanced AI work, including at Alibaba and DeepSeek (www.bloomberg.com)
28 days ago China Alibaba AI

A look at Xiaomi's AI push to future-proof its hardware and EV ecosystem, as it recently committed ~$8.8B in AI investments over the next three years (www.scmp.com)
29 days ago AI Xiaomi

Lenovo, Dell, and HP Financially Support Linux Vendor Firmware Service (linux.slashdot.org)
30 days ago Linux Lenovo

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