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Gartner's latest forecast puts global AI spending at $2.59 trillion in 2026 — a 47% single-year jump — with AI-optimised servers set to triple over five years. The real story: enterprises have barely…
China's top hypersonic weapons researcher and Chinese Academy of Sciences member Fang Daining, 68, died on February 27 in South…
Analog Devices is reportedly near a $1.5 billion deal to acquire AI power-management startup Empower Semiconductor — with an…
DeepSeek has quietly recruited a former Jane Street engineer with nearly nine years of quant-trading systems experience to build…
A former head of Samsung's semiconductor unit warns that Chinese chipmakers adding 300,000 wafers of capacity over three years…
Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max-Preview and Qwen3.7-Plus-Preview have leapt to the top of LM Arena's Chinese AI rankings — 13th and 16th…
CXMT posted a 719% revenue surge to US$7.4 billion in Q1 2026 and forecast up to 120 billion yuan in first-half revenue — a…
For the first time, Baidu's AI businesses — growing 49% year on year to 13.6 billion yuan — have overtaken advertising to become…
China Telecom has launched token-based AI subscription plans — priced from 9.9 yuan for 10 million tokens — bundling…
