Apple just passed $10bn in India, a country where it charges more than it does at home
Apple just passed $10bn in India, a country where it charges more than it does at home

Apple has crossed $10bn in annual sales in India for the first time. The milestone says as much about where the company is heading as where it has been. Revenue for the year to March topped $10bn, Bloomberg reported. That is up from about $9bn a year e…

China champions open AI to the world. In private, it’s afraid of one closed American model.
China champions open AI to the world. In private, it’s afraid of one closed American model.

China has spent the past year telling the world that AI should be open, cheap and shared. In private, its officials are unnerved by one American model that is none of those things. Beijing is growing anxious that Anthropic’s Mythos could be turned agai…

US is drafting a ban on Chinese devices in data centres
US is drafting a ban on Chinese devices in data centres

The Trump administration wants Chinese hardware out of American data centres. Officials are drafting a ban on Chinese-made devices used in data centres, according to Reuters, the latest move to wall off the infrastructure behind the US AI buildout from…

The ‘death zone’: how free Chinese models are hollowing out US AI
The ‘death zone’: how free Chinese models are hollowing out US AI

China’s open-source AI push has created what Bloomberg calls a ‘death zone’ for rival American model makers. The phrase captures a squeeze on the middle of the market, where US companies are too costly to match free Chinese models yet not good enough t…

Geely Galaxy Battleship 700 tri-motor stuffs 1,113 hp in a high-luxe, boxy package
Geely Galaxy Battleship 700 tri-motor stuffs 1,113 hp in a high-luxe, boxy package

The eagerly anticipated Geely Galaxy 700 was expected to be the Chinese brand’s answer to the Range Rover and Land Cruiser – but, with a tire-shredding 1,113 hp on tap, it may be a bigger, boxier answer to Italian exotic cars, instead!

CXMT is nearing LPDDR6 production. The company that just IPO’d at 470% could give Samsung and SK Hynix a competitor in next-gen phone memory.
CXMT is nearing LPDDR6 production. The company that just IPO’d at 470% could give Samsung and SK Hynix a competitor in next-gen phone memory.

ChangXin Memory Technologies has nearly completed R&D verification for LPDDR6 smartphone memory at speeds of up to 12.8Gbps, China Business News reported. This is one of the final technical stages before trial production. CXMT could begin mass prod…

Tesla is reportedly weighing a China sell-off to clear the way for a SpaceX merger
Tesla is reportedly weighing a China sell-off to clear the way for a SpaceX merger

Tesla is weighing whether to sell, spin off, or shut down its China business to clear a path for a possible merger with SpaceX, according to a Wall Street Journal report that Elon Musk has publicly and flatly denied. The move would untangle Tesla’s vas…

Tesla weighs selling China business to clear path for SpaceX merger
Tesla weighs selling China business to clear path for SpaceX merger

Tesla is looking at cutting loose its China business to clear a path toward a merger with SpaceX, according to a new Wall Street Journal report.
If true, it would be a massive deal in the auto industry. Tesla’s Shanghai factory builds more than half of…

BYD’s answer to its car-sales slump: a humanoid robot in every showroom
BYD’s answer to its car-sales slump: a humanoid robot in every showroom

BYD sells more electric cars than anyone. Next month, it wants to sell you one using a robot. China’s biggest EV maker will unveil its first humanoid robot in August, at its Di Space experience centres in Zhengzhou, the company told the South China Mor…

China threatens ‘resolute’ retaliation over the US robot ban, and it holds the rare-earth card
China threatens ‘resolute’ retaliation over the US robot ban, and it holds the rare-earth card

The US wanted to keep Chinese robots out. Beijing’s answer: do this, and we will hit back where it hurts. China has threatened “resolute” retaliation after Washington moved to bar imports of Chinese-made humanoid robots. Its commerce ministry called th…