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Xiaomi Bets on the 'Mid-Fold' as China's Foldable Super Week Begins

Xiaomi launches the 18 Fold, its first 'mid-fold,' expected from around 12,000 yuan, hours after Huawei's global tri-fold event — a September 'super week' in which Chinese makers are writing the foldable playbook Apple is rumoured to follow.

The projection that China's retired electric-car batteries will top one million tonnes a year by 2030 has been trending on Baidu, landing as the country's earliest mass-market EVs hit the age when their packs fall below 80 percent capacity — and a recycling industry built on second lives and mined-out metals comes of age.

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DeepSeek Orders 160,000 Huawei Chips in a $2.56 Billion Bet on Domestic AI Silicon

DeepSeek has ordered at least 160,000 of Huawei's next-generation Ascend 950DT chips for a new Inner Mongolia data center — one of the largest known clusters of Chinese AI silicon, worth about $2.56 billion. The lab that stunned the industry with efficient models is betting its infrastructure on domestic chips, and says it is willing to wait out Huawei's production bottleneck.