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Ten Years of China's Sky Eye: 1,300 Pulsars and a Plan to Multiply Its Vision by 200

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China's FAST telescope marked ten years since completion with a milestone tally: more than 1,300 pulsars discovered, more than every other telescope combined over the same period, and an array upgrade promising 200-fold sharper resolution.

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Huawei's Newest Big Bet on Wheels Is Dongfeng's 279,800-Yuan Yijing X9

Dongfeng and Huawei launched their co-created flagship SUV at a promotional price from 279,800 yuan — the sharpest test yet of Huawei's 'native co-creation' model, in which its driver-assistance system commands the whole chassis.

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Routine by Design: China's Satellite-Internet Constellation Adds Its 26th Group

A Long March 8A put the 26th group of China's low-orbit internet constellation into orbit on Tuesday night — now routine: the Thousand Sails network is due to complete 324 satellites by year-end, and the planned constellation runs to nearly 13,000.

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'Marginal Product': China's Default Chatbot Doubao Has a Trust Problem

A hashtag attributing the phrase 'marginal product' to a Doubao employee trended because it matched what users say about ByteDance's AI assistant: the most-installed chatbot in China has a habit of answering confidently when it does not know.

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Apple's First Foldable Hits a Yield Wall: Just Six in Ten iPhone Duos Pass Assembly

With the iPhone Duo's official release barely a month away, supply-chain sources say Foxconn's assembly yield for Apple's first foldable is only just above 60 percent — and suppliers are waiting on Apple to decide whether to relax its quality bar to reach volume.

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China Sets a Trillion-Yuan Target for Its Homegrown GPS Rival

Beijing's five-year plan for the Beidou satellite system calls for industry output to pass one trillion yuan by 2030, up from 629 billion today — and for the GPS alternative built to escape dependence to start winning customers abroad.

In an interview that aired as Xi Jinping arrived in the United States, Musk praised China's 'incredible magnificence,' credited Tesla's Shanghai factory to its Chinese team, and predicted a billion humanoid robots within a decade — and state television clipped it into a day-long sermon.

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Elon Musk, on Chinese State TV, Tells the World to Go and See China

23 Sep 2026

The Chinese camera maker's first US flagship opened on Broadway in Times Square on September 19, with the queue reported at over a thousand people, the first customer arriving at 2:30 a.m. — and its newest cameras topping sales charts on both sides of the Pacific.

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A Thousand New Yorkers Queue Around the Block as Insta360 Opens Its First US Store

22 Sep 2026

OPPO launched its Find X10 lineup in three tiers from 4,999 yuan, topping out with a Pro Max that pairs MediaTek's 2nm chip with a triple 200-megapixel camera array and an 8,000mAh battery — another step in the steady price climb of Chinese flagship phones.

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OPPO Puts a 2nm Chip and an 8,000mAh Battery Into Find X10 Flagships Starting at 5,499 Yuan

22 Sep 2026

At the Yunqi conference in Hangzhou, Alibaba's chief executive predicted machines will eventually supply more than a thousand times humanity's thinking, as Xiaomi open-sourced a top-ranked model, Meta's agent app Muse topped the US App Store, and Chinese phones began shipping assistants that operate your apps for you.

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Machine Thoughts, Mass-Produced: Alibaba Opens China's AI Week With a 1,000-to-1 Prediction

22 Sep 2026

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A 25-Metre Helium Balloon Is Hauling Two Tons of Power-Line Steel Up Tibet's Peaks

22 Sep 2026

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One Homeroom Teacher, the Rest AI: China Debates a Classroom Without Subject Teachers

22 Sep 2026

vivo launched its X500 flagship line in Shenzhen at 5,499 yuan and up, and immediately took heat for it — the first phone out in a season when every Chinese maker is repricing upward on memory costs.

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vivo Opens Its New Flagship Line at 5,499 Yuan as Chinese Phone Prices Climb

21 Sep 2026

A dealership poster for the Porsche Cayenne in China now carries a limited-time price of 618,000 yuan against a 918,000 guide price — a 300,000-yuan discount on one of the country's status-symbol cars, as Chinese premium electric SUVs rewrite what wealthy buyers expect.

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Porsche Cuts the Cayenne by 300,000 Yuan in China as Domestic EVs Close In

20 Sep 2026

Yinwang, the spun-off Huawei car-unit vehicle that supplies AITO, formally stated on Sunday it will keep selling smart-driving, cockpit and cloud solutions to Seres and safeguard AITO users' upgrades — a reassurance that signals how Huawei now sits inside, not above, the car industry it supplies.

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'Electronic Screw' Pledge: Huawei's Yinwang Unit Promises Continued Support for AITO After Restructure

20 Sep 2026

CXMT announced at the World Manufacturing Convention that its fifth-generation DRAM platform is in mass production, with 11.95nm half-pitch claimed — a challenge to the Samsung–SK Hynix–Micron trio at the heart of a global memory price squeeze that has already raised phone prices in China.

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China's Homegrown Memory Champion Puts Fifth-Generation DRAM Into Mass Production

20 Sep 2026

Chengdu's traffic authority has turned an AI screening system on 'turtle-speed' drivers — cars crawling far below the flow, often because the driver is on the phone — after footage showed one sedan overtaken 18 times in 200 meters. Offenders face 100-yuan fines and three license points.

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200 Meters, 18 Overtakes: Chengdu Deploys AI Against Slow Drivers

20 Sep 2026

The Cyberspace Administration of China has named 30 apps — mostly small utility software, from a study-recitation tool to a farm-plot GPS calculator — for collecting personal information improperly, ordering fixes within fifteen working days under a three-agency privacy campaign.

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China's Internet Regulator Names 30 Apps Over Personal Data Violations

20 Sep 2026

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Ten Years of China's Sky Eye: 1,300 Pulsars and a Plan to Multiply Its Vision by 200

Huawei's Newest Big Bet on Wheels Is Dongfeng's 279,800-Yuan Yijing X9

Routine by Design: China's Satellite-Internet Constellation Adds Its 26th Group

'Marginal Product': China's Default Chatbot Doubao Has a Trust Problem

Apple's First Foldable Hits a Yield Wall: Just Six in Ten iPhone Duos Pass Assembly

China Sets a Trillion-Yuan Target for Its Homegrown GPS Rival

Elon Musk, on Chinese State TV, Tells the World to Go and See China

A Thousand New Yorkers Queue Around the Block as Insta360 Opens Its First US Store

OPPO Puts a 2nm Chip and an 8,000mAh Battery Into Find X10 Flagships Starting at 5,499 Yuan

Machine Thoughts, Mass-Produced: Alibaba Opens China's AI Week With a 1,000-to-1 Prediction

A 25-Metre Helium Balloon Is Hauling Two Tons of Power-Line Steel Up Tibet's Peaks

One Homeroom Teacher, the Rest AI: China Debates a Classroom Without Subject Teachers

vivo Opens Its New Flagship Line at 5,499 Yuan as Chinese Phone Prices Climb

Porsche Cuts the Cayenne by 300,000 Yuan in China as Domestic EVs Close In

'Electronic Screw' Pledge: Huawei's Yinwang Unit Promises Continued Support for AITO After Restructure

China's Homegrown Memory Champion Puts Fifth-Generation DRAM Into Mass Production

200 Meters, 18 Overtakes: Chengdu Deploys AI Against Slow Drivers

China's Internet Regulator Names 30 Apps Over Personal Data Violations