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Sat, Nov 14

Trump heads to the APEC summit in Shenzhen next week for a third in-person meeting with Xi, bringing Elon MuskChinaTechNews (citing AP)
US Congress widens its Nvidia probe and seeks testimony from Huang and Trump administration officialsSCMP
UBTech signs a strategic deal with luxury auto dealer Yongda to supply bionic humanoid robotsChinaTechNews
Bessent: US and China agree to set up an AI dialogue; experts say their views on safety differSCMP

Fri, Nov 13

Thu, Nov 12

Wed, Nov 11

Reuters investigation: Nvidia H200 chips reach US-blacklisted universities via local suppliersReuters (via ICYMI O/N)
Shanghai Jiao Tong team enters quantum computing with "atom + photon chips" and raises a round in the hundreds of millions of yuan36Kr
Alibaba has formally applied to spin off chip unit T-Head for a separate listing21Jingji
Embodied-chip company Xixuan Chuangzhi, a joint venture of MetaX and UBTech, raises RMB 500 million in angel roundSina (citing 21st Century Business Herald)

Tue, Nov 10

Mon, Nov 9

Sun, Nov 8

Analysis: Chinese tech giants are becoming "full-stack physical-AI companies"FourWeekMBA

Fri, Nov 6

Thu, Nov 5

SAIC and Momenta plan a RMB 300 million driver-assistance joint venture, with Momenta holding 51%21st Century Business Herald
Sand.ai raises US$200M Series A+ for generative video foundation modelsTech Startups
China blocks SoftBank's US$5.4 billion takeover of ABB's robotics businessSCMP

Wed, Nov 4

Tue, Nov 3

Baidu Apollo unveils Apollo World, a world model to explore new ways of training robotaxisTechNode
AI compute-scheduling firm Gongji Technology raises hundreds of millions of yuanTech Startups
Juice listing Guotou Zhonglu absorbs China Electronics Engineering Design Institute in a RMB 6.03 billion share dealXinhua Finance (Du Caibao)
HBM remains the bottleneck: Ascend 950DT reportedly rises above RMB 250,000, CXMT's HBM3E yield only 20–30%TrendForce
Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro and opens the weightsAI Weekly
Moffett AI raises nearly RMB 1 billion in Series C+ to push AI inference chipsTech Startups
Mount Tai hosts China's first large-scale robot hiking challengeTechNode
NDRC says it will speed up a comprehensive AI law, safety standards and regulatory sandboxesFourWeekMBA (citing Bloomberg)

Mon, Nov 2

China's embodied-AI funding hit RMB 93.5 billion across 322 deals in H1, about 5x a year earlierAsiaOne
GenRobot AI raises US$100M Series A+ to turn human work footage into robot training dataThe AI Insider
Marvell to buy Lumentum in an all-stock deal valued at about US$115 billionLight Reading (company press release)
Nvidia's two newest humanoid reference platforms ship with Chinese robot handsAI Weekly
RoboScience raises several hundred million yuan in Series A2, led by Amber Capital and othersThe AI Insider
Solid-state battery race: CATL and BYD both target 2027 pilot production; Sunwoda tests polymer cells with automakersCarNewsChina
Injection-molding maker Terry Machinery bids up to RMB 244.8 million for control of memory-module firm Yixinwei21st Century Business Herald

Sun, Nov 1

Empyrean plans to spend up to RMB 220 million for as much as 51% of EDA firm Qijie TechnologyEastmoney (weekly roundup)
October deliveries: XPeng tops 50,000 for the first time, Leapmotor sets a record, NIO and Li Auto fallCnEVPost

Sat, Oct 31

Ham maker Jinzi puts in more money, taking about 19% of Zhongsheng Micro for RMB 274 million in totalEastmoney (weekly roundup)

Thu, Oct 29

The Information: DeepSeek's second round nears US$16 billion, led by the national IC industry fundAI Weekly (via The Information)
October in robotics and embodied AI: 45 companies disclose funding36Kr
Spirit AI founder: robot brains' "GPT-3 moment" could arrive around mid-2027Reuters (via Tribune)
Tencent Cloud shifts WorkBuddy toward the enterprise AI marketAI Weekly
Xiaomi invests RMB 1.7 billion for 5.34% of Sunwoda EVB, and Sunwoda loses controlCnEVPost

Wed, Oct 28

Moore Threads posts its first profit for the first three quarters: revenue RMB 3.29 billion, up 319%36Kr Japan

Tue, Oct 27

Mon, Oct 26

Sun, Oct 25

Moonshot AI hires its first overseas sales role in Singapore as open-model makers look abroad for revenueDigitimes

Fri, Oct 23

Thu, Oct 22

DeepSeek raises about RMB 100 billion, with CATL and Tencent reportedly investingBloomberg
Robot-chip firm Huixi Technology closes Series B led by a Beijing AI fundTechNode
DeepSeek and MiniMax become the first Chinese AI firms cleared to open-source and license models abroadAI Weekly (via The Information)

Wed, Oct 21

AI-inference storage company ExponTech raises over US$13.8MDealroom

Tue, Oct 20

Industry ministry: China had over 400 humanoid-robot models and 40,000+ units produced by end of JuneNews of Bahrain

Mon, Oct 19

US Department of Homeland Security orders federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek productsTechRepublic

Sun, Oct 18

Robot-AI startup Gewu Tongzhi, founded by former Huawei engineers, raises nearly RMB 100 million in angel roundTechNode

Sat, Oct 17

DeepSeek ships V4.1-Flash-1017 update, API prices unchangedTech Insider

Fri, Oct 16

Bloomberg: China weighs tighter export controls on 23 AI-related technologiesBitsMinds (via Bloomberg)

Thu, Oct 15

Piotech plans a RMB 2.5 billion purchase of Wuxi Shangji and two holding vehicles to add PVD and etch toolsMianbao Finance (Tonghuashun)

Wed, Oct 14

AgiBot reportedly nears a new funding round at about RMB 50 billion valuationTechNode (citing Caijing)

Tue, Oct 13

Astribot raises RMB 1 billion at a RMB 15 billion valuation, its fourth round this yearEqualOcean

Mon, Oct 12

Sat, Oct 10

Guowang low-orbit constellation completes first communications test, with a live video link from an Arctic expeditionDigitimes

Fri, Oct 9

CPCA: September NEV passenger-car wholesale estimated at 1.67 million, a 2026 highCnEVPost

Thu, Oct 8

Wed, Oct 7

Thu, Oct 1

BYD's September sales hit a 2026 high, overseas share near 39%The Cool Down (via CnEVPost)
September EV startup deliveries: Leapmotor and Zeekr set records, Xiaomi hits its year highCnEVPost

Tue, Sep 29

First fully domestic physical-AI robot unveiled, co-developed by Dongtoo and LimX DynamicsHerald Corp

Tue, Sep 22

Alibaba's Apsara Conference: Qwen 4 family previewed, T-Head unveils Zhenwu V900 AI chipTechRepublic

Mon, Sep 21

CXMT starts mass production of fifth-generation DRAM, says its process is closing in on the leadersDigitimes

Sun, Sep 20

AI servers squeeze memory supply and prices rise; Huawei, OPPO and Xiaomi raise some phone pricesDigitimes

Sat, Sep 19

ByteDance's second AI-agent phone asks for permission instead of forcing automation, but the app wall remainsDigitimes

Fri, Sep 18

Analysis: 15th Five-Year Plan names diamond and other ultra-wide-bandgap materials for AI-chip coolingDigitimes

Thu, Sep 17

D-Robotics raises US$400M Series C; Sunrise chip shipments pass 8 million unitsTechNode

Mon, Sep 14

China's drug regulator approves the world's first product standard for AI-based brain-computer interface devicesChina News Service

Sun, Sep 13

Sat, Sep 12

Luxshare uses car HUD technology to enter AR glasses, shows several new products at CIOEDigitimes

Fri, Sep 11

Thu, Sep 10

DeepSeek releases V4.1 Flash: native vision, open-sourced under the MIT licenseDeepSeek official

Thu, Sep 3

Moonshot AI reportedly files confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO, seeking about US$3 billionTechNode

Wed, Sep 2

China steps up brain-computer-interface push: several devices approved this year, subsidies for local startupsSemafor

Fri, Aug 28

Thu, Aug 27

Mon, Aug 24

Sun, Aug 23

World Robot Conference closes: 44 new technologies released, "Beijing Robot Domain" vision unveiledBeijing Municipal Government (English)

Thu, Aug 20

Unitree: embodied AI's "ChatGPT moment" is at least two to three years awayTrendForce

Wed, Aug 19

Tue, Aug 18

Low-orbit satellite internet firm Yuanxin Satellite raises about RMB 7 billion in Series B at roughly RMB 50 billion post-moneyInternet Info Agency

Fri, Aug 14

Embodied-AI firm Light Origins raises several hundred million yuan in Pre-A, led by Guoke InvestmentDealroom (via Jiemian)