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On 9 July 2026, Zhipu AI and Iluvatar CoreX Semiconductor launched back-to-back Hong Kong secondary placements worth a combined HK$38.5 billion — with both stocks surging despite post-IPO lock-up…
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman stepped away from AI discourse on July 9, 2026, to share a simple personal sentiment on X — his…
Nvidia has congratulated xAI on Grok 4.5, confirming the model was trained on GB300 NVL72 rack-scale systems. The new model…
A proposed US Congressional bill barring federally funded American institutions from collaborating with Chinese entities has…
Nvidia's corporate X account on 8 July 2026 publicly tagged LangChain and pointed developers to new resources, reinforcing the…
Nvidia has teamed up with LangChain to help enterprises transform their proprietary knowledge into specialised, customisable AI…
China's most prestigious science prize for 2025 went to the researcher behind the country's first lithium battery and the…
China's PCB sector is on track for record capital expenditure in 2026, with Victory Giant Technology alone committing US$530…
Alibaba shares posted their biggest single-day gain of 2026 — surging 12.2% in Hong Kong — after UBS and Jefferies projected 9%…
