InstaPay Technologies has secured USD 3 million in a Series A2 funding round, led by US family offices with renewed backing from ACA Investments. With this funding, the Malaysia-based fintech firm ...

Temu has signed a cloud hosting deal with Oracle amid ongoing US lawsuits and rising scrutiny over data privacy. The Chinese-owned app is accused of mishandling user data and is following TikTok’s ...

DeepSeek’s updated R1 model has tied Google’s Gemini 2.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 on the WebDev Arena coding leaderboard. Released in May, the enhanced R1 reportedly improves reasoning and halves ...

Alipay has integrated in-store payment functionality into Rokid’s new AR glasses, enabling users to complete purchases using voice commands and QR scans. With over 250,000 units reportedly preordered, ...

China has begun its first clinical trial of wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, with a paralyzed patient reportedly controlling games by thought weeks after surgery. The implant, said ...

TikTok has launched new AI-driven tools that let marketers generate five-second video ads from product images or text prompts. Part of its Symphony product, the features aim to cut production time and ...

MiniMax has launched M1, an open-weight hybrid attention model built for long-context reasoning and complex tasks. With 456 billion parameters and support for one million-token inputs, MiniMax-M1 ...

Baidu’s Apollo Go service has received approval to expand its robotaxi testing to Tung Chung, marking its third Hong Kong zone since December 2024. The move follows over 15,000 kilometers of ...

Taobao’s 618 campaign saw a surge in cross-border pet product sales, with more than 1,000 merchants doubling their YoY revenue. Chinese brands led in pet food and smart care devices, while small pet ...

HongShan, formerly Sequoia China, has open-sourced two datasets from its xBench benchmark to help developers test reasoning and search skills in real-world AI tasks. The ScienceQA and DeepSearch sets ...

LG Energy Solution has signed a six-year deal to supply Chery with 8 GWh of 46-series cylindrical EV batteries, marking its first contract with a Chinese automaker. The high-capacity cells will begin ...

Splat is an app that turns arguments into entertainment, where AI judges your roasts and fighting is framed as a form of ...