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Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba Group Holding and JD.com reported record user participation and growing sales during the 618 shopping festival, as government subsidies and new artificial intelligence (AI) tools fuelled a surge in consumer activity. More than 453 brands each surpassed 100 million yuan (US$14 million) in gross merchandise value (GMV) on Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall platforms during the weeks-long event, the company said on Thursday.
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Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com is extending its deep-seated rivalry with Meituan to Saudi Arabia, launching a self-operated courier service in the country as it extends its footprint in the Middle East. On Wednesday, JD.com’s logistics arm JD Logistics announced the launch of JoyExpress, a business-to-consumer express delivery service that covers most of the 13 provinces in the Middle Eastern country, according to a statement.
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Shanghai-based artificial intelligence (AI) start-up MiniMax has launched an open-source reasoning model that it said requires just half the computing resources of rival DeepSeek’s models for some tasks. On Tuesday, the company announced the release of MiniMax-M1, its first reasoning model, on its official WeChat account.
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Alibaba Group Holding has released its updated Qwen3 family of artificial intelligence (AI) models that could signal the potential roll-out in China of machine-learning technology on a range of Apple devices, including iPhones, iPads and MacBooks. In a Monday post on social media platform X, the Qwen team of Alibaba’s cloud computing unit said it launched open-source Qwen3 models optimised for Apple’s MLX framework for machine learning. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
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Chinese internet search giant Baidu is accelerating its hunt for artificial intelligence (AI) talent with its largest-ever recruitment drive focused on the industry, as technology giants race to secure scarce expertise in the fast-growing sector. The Beijing-based firm said in a statement that job openings in its so-called AIDU annual recruitment drive – an initiative to attract and develop future AI tech leaders – had surged 60 per cent this year.
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4 hours agoChina: Mum poses with toddler over 7,000ft drop from killer mountainWeinan, China - May 19, 2025 This is the nerve-wracking moment a mum posed with her toddler over a 7,000ft drop from a killer mountain. Terrifying footage shows the woman sitting on the edge of a sheer cliff at Mount Hushuan in Shaanxi, China. A photographer can be seen carrying her son and carefully placing him in her lap on May 19.
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Taiwan added Huawei Technologies and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), two of China’s leading chipmakers, to a trade blacklist a mid an intensifying tech rivalry between China and the US. The International Trade Administration of Taiwan included Huawei, SMIC and a host of their subsidiaries in a Strategic High-Tech Commodities Entity List, according to the updated list published by the island’s Ministry of Economic Affairs on its website on Saturday.
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Goku Technologies, a Shanghai-based quantitative trading fund, is expanding its ambitions beyond finance, looking to artificial intelligence (AI) as a means to overcome challenges faced by humanity, according to CEO Wang Xiao. In an interview with the Post, Wang said the firm’s AI initiatives were driven by a vision that transcended short-term commercial interests. “What I believe is [AI exists] to solve issues for humanity – this is the only thing that matters,” he said.
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14 hours agoThe next time you're talking about AI over dinner or drinks, know these terms to sound smart. AI is now a part of our everyday lives. From the massive popularity of ChatGPT to Google cramming AI summaries at the top of its search results, AI is completely taking over the internet. With AI, you can …
