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Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu said on Aug. 20 that the company’s second-generation T-Head chip is expected to begin tape-out and production in the second half of this year. Alibaba said the chip will offer stronger computing performance and interconnect bandwidth, and that the company bel

SenseTime has open-sourced SenseNova U1.5 Lite, an 8-billion-parameter multimodal model designed to combine visual understanding, image generation and editing in one system. The model supports native 4K image output and is designed to handle constraints involving subjects, counts

BYD’s Fang Cheng Bao brand opened pre-orders for its first sedan lineup on Aug. 20, with the Formula S and Formula S GT priced from RMB230,000 to RMB280,000. The two models made their global debut at the 2026 Chengdu Auto Show on Aug. 21. The lineup includes both single- and dual

At an Aug. 20 launch event, Huawei unveiled the Pura X View, a conventional smartphone with a wider 16:9.5 display instead of the tall screen format used by most slab phones. The device has a 6.39-inch OLED display with 2,232-by-1,320 resolution and a 96.1% screen-to-body ratio,

Alibaba reported RMB268.95 billion in revenue for the quarter ended June 30, up 9% year on year, while net income attributable to ordinary shareholders fell 76% to RMB10.54 billion. Capital expenditure rose 75% to RMB67.68 billion, mainly as the company increased investment in AI

More than 70 embodied-AI training grounds had been built and put into operation across China by the end of June, according to a 2026 report from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. Another 46 facilities were under construction or in the planning stage,