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Alibaba tests paid AI appetite with US$30 annual office-assistant subscription The e-commerce giant launches paid tiers for its office assistant in the Qwen app as costs for artificial intelligence mount Alibaba Group Holding is asking app users to open their wallets for its arti

Alibaba says modular design delivers AI data centres in 100 days at 10% lower cost With CUBE 5.0, Alibaba Cloud expects to more than double modular data centre delivery efficiency this year amid AI boom, report says Using CUBE 5.0, Alibaba Cloud had slashed the delivery time for

Nio stalls in Germany as its car registrations fall 93.6% in July In contrast to its Chinese peers, Nio is struggling in Europe’s largest car market, registering just three cars last month and 18 this year Chinese carmakers are gaining ground in Germany, Europe’s biggest car mark

China’s economic problems have been diagnosed. Will policymakers act? What is missing is the willingness to redirect resources away from growth engines of the past and directly support Chinese households China’s real issue, he argued, was not divergence between a rising line and

China’s central bank targets global yuan in first solo 5-year plan in at least a decade The strategy signals Beijing’s push to build a ‘strong central bank’ capable of driving its financial powerhouse ambitions, analyst says China’s central bank has set out its strategic prioriti

Meta to challenge China’s open-weight AI dominance amid US regulatory fears Meta’s renewed push into open-source models aims to attract US businesses wary of the regulatory risks associated with adopting Chinese AI The US tech giant on Monday launched Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-p

Claims state subsidies caused China’s industrial overcapacity a deliberate smear: scholar In People’s Daily commentary piece, Cui Fan says ‘reasonable industrial subsidies … are a globally recognised and legitimate policy tool’ Western narratives alleging state subsidies caused C

China’s aviation regulator steps up safety communication with foreign carriers The Civil Aviation Administration of China, following some operational changes, has increased its aircraft checks as an additional safety measure An aviation analyst said the move was made in light of