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Geely's New Family Car Runs on Methanol, Electricity or Petrol — Whichever Is Cheaper

Geely's Galaxy Xingyao 6 E-fuel launched at 76,800 yuan and can burn methanol, petrol, or run on battery — a third lane in China's car market after two decades of methanol research.

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First Your Savings, Then Your Job: The AI-Bubble Line Haunting China's Retail Investors

A viral quip about the AI trade — believers lose their jobs, skeptics their savings, most people both, in that order — captured the mood as Chinese stocks slid again, while the country's most famous retail-investor pundit bought the dip in the morning and watched it sink by dusk.

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She Couldn't Beat the Machines, So She Joined Them — and Now Out-Earns Her Old Publisher

A South African romance writer who lost her publishing contract to AI turned the same tools into a 371-book, million-dollar self-publishing operation. Chinese writers and readers are watching the arithmetic of their own industry play out in someone else's career.

Hongguo, ByteDance's free short-drama app, has climbed to fourth among all Chinese apps by daily users — and the debate over how much time it takes has moved from Weibo jokes to state-media features about attention, algorithms and platform responsibility.

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State Media Asks What China's Short-Drama Apps Are Doing With 129 Minutes a Day

3 Nov 2026

Anthropic's revised IPO prospectus shows third-quarter revenue of $17 billion — up 1,127 percent year on year — against a $23.3 billion net loss and nearly $900 billion in future AI infrastructure commitments, a gap that is now testing investors' nerve across markets.

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Anthropic's IPO Filing Puts a Number on the AI Boom's Central Question

3 Nov 2026

During the Double 11 shopping festival, Li Jiaqi — the 'Lipstick King' of Chinese livestream commerce — added AI compute to his cart lineup. A hundred thousand monthly memberships of Qwen Office, worth about two trillion tokens, sold out in thirty minutes, with the product's CEO working the livestream himself.

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China's Biggest Livestreamer Just Sold Two Trillion AI Tokens in Half an Hour

2 Nov 2026

The 2026 World Internet Conference opened in the water town of Wuzhen on Monday under a theme that would have been unthinkable at its first editions: open source, held up as the measure of China's tech ambitions. Tencent and Alibaba arrived with rival flagship models released openly, and the country's first national open-source exhibition hall opened the day before the summit did.

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Why Open Source Sits at the Center of China's World Internet Conference

2 Nov 2026

Phantom Blade Zero, a kungfu action game from Shanghai studio S-GAME, has sold four million copies in 72 hours and topped Steam's global bestseller chart. The launch is being read in China as proof that Black Myth: Wukong was no fluke — and as a test of whether wuxia travels.

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Four Million Copies in Three Days: Phantom Blade Zero Is China's Next Gaming Blockbuster

2 Nov 2026

Chinese platforms released 13 times as many micro short dramas in the first nine months of this year as in all of last year, with AI-made shows above nine in ten; costs have fallen to as little as 30,000 yuan a title and cycles to days — and the actors and studios who built the genre are watching the floor drop out.

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Nine in Ten of China's New Short Dramas Are Now Made by AI

2 Nov 2026

DeepSeek's Harness team has unveiled a 'super-agent' design — a router-and-worker system that runs continuously, reacts to events like group-chat messages, and fixes bugs in the background — betting that the bottleneck in AI work is no longer the model but human attention.

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DeepSeek's New Architecture Lets AI Start Work Without Being Asked

1 Nov 2026

Cai Lei, the former JD.com vice president who has lived with ALS for six years and now communicates through an eye tracker, says he hopes a brain-computer interface will one day let him command a robotic arm to embrace his son — a wish that is edging toward clinical reality in China.

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Paralyzed by ALS, a Former JD Executive Wants a Brain Implant So He Can Hug His Son

31 Oct 2026

A Shenzhen teardown blogger claims China's version of Apple's first foldable ships without components found in the US model — a charge that drew more than 12,000 likes and an equally fast rebuttal pointing out that several of the 'missing' features were never approved for use in China.

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Viral Teardown Accuses Apple of Cutting Corners on the Chinese iPhone Duo

31 Oct 2026

On October 31, Apple announced that Apple Intelligence will launch in mainland China this December, with Alibaba's Qwen model built in. The announcement ends a two-year wait for Chinese iPhone users — and it is as much a story about how China's AI rules shape global products as about new features.

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Apple Intelligence Finally Reaches Chinese iPhones, Powered by Alibaba's Qwen

31 Oct 2026

After "iPad mini locked at 60Hz" trended on Weibo, Apple's display chief argued that refresh rate is the wrong way to judge the new OLED screen. Chinese tech fans answered with the slang they save for exactly this kind of product segmentation: classic Apple knife skills.

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Apple Defends the New iPad mini's 60Hz Screen, and Chinese Tech Fans Aren't Convinced

30 Oct 2026

Intel reported a strong quarter on Thursday — revenue up 21 percent, its data-centre and AI business up 78 percent — and its shares still fell more than 20 percent after hours, because guidance for the final quarter fell far short of Wall Street's numbers. Chinese boards trended the plunge within hours.

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Intel Plunges More Than 20% on a Weak Outlook, Despite an AI Quarter That Delivered

30 Oct 2026

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Wang Teng Left Xiaomi to Sell Sleep: His Startup's First Smart Ring Launches at 1,799 Yuan, Half of Oura's Price

29 Oct 2026

ByteDance's Hongguo has started inserting videos of its own drama characters into the feed to tell binge-watchers to rest and sleep — a self-imposed brake from the platform that now out-watches China's four big streamers combined.

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The App That Out-Watched TV Is Now Telling Its Viewers to Stop Watching

29 Oct 2026

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5,000 Owners, a Beach Concert and a New SUV: How XPeng Launched the MONA L05

29 Oct 2026

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Geely's New Family Car Runs on Methanol, Electricity or Petrol — Whichever Is Cheaper

First Your Savings, Then Your Job: The AI-Bubble Line Haunting China's Retail Investors

She Couldn't Beat the Machines, So She Joined Them — and Now Out-Earns Her Old Publisher

State Media Asks What China's Short-Drama Apps Are Doing With 129 Minutes a Day

Anthropic's IPO Filing Puts a Number on the AI Boom's Central Question

China's Biggest Livestreamer Just Sold Two Trillion AI Tokens in Half an Hour

Why Open Source Sits at the Center of China's World Internet Conference

Four Million Copies in Three Days: Phantom Blade Zero Is China's Next Gaming Blockbuster

Nine in Ten of China's New Short Dramas Are Now Made by AI

DeepSeek's New Architecture Lets AI Start Work Without Being Asked

Paralyzed by ALS, a Former JD Executive Wants a Brain Implant So He Can Hug His Son

Viral Teardown Accuses Apple of Cutting Corners on the Chinese iPhone Duo

Apple Intelligence Finally Reaches Chinese iPhones, Powered by Alibaba's Qwen

Apple Defends the New iPad mini's 60Hz Screen, and Chinese Tech Fans Aren't Convinced

Intel Plunges More Than 20% on a Weak Outlook, Despite an AI Quarter That Delivered

Wang Teng Left Xiaomi to Sell Sleep: His Startup's First Smart Ring Launches at 1,799 Yuan, Half of Oura's Price

The App That Out-Watched TV Is Now Telling Its Viewers to Stop Watching

5,000 Owners, a Beach Concert and a New SUV: How XPeng Launched the MONA L05