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At the Paris Motor Show, XPeng chairman He Xiaopeng announced the company will license its full intelligent-vehicle stack to global partners — vehicle platforms, driver assistance, chips, even flying cars — and said its Robotaxi unit is in deep talks with leading European mobility platforms. Chinese commentators immediately asked whether a brutal home market is forcing China's carmakers to sell the crown jewels cheap.

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'Don't Download Hongguo': Weibo Warns Against the App That Keeps Users Watching Past Midnight

The week's most-liked warning on Chinese social media is addressed to an app: Hongguo, ByteDance's short-drama platform, whose users describe a habit they cannot put down. The phrase is a joke, but the time it describes is real — the app now leads China's screen-time charts.

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Global Phone Shipments Sink to a 14-Year Low as AI Data Centers Absorb the Memory Supply

Counterpoint Research estimates smartphone shipments fell 20 percent in the third quarter as memory prices, driven up by AI data-center demand, pushed retail prices higher. On the same day in Shanghai, a Chinese startup launched a phone built around AI agents — the industry's bet on what comes next.