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ByteDance has quietly crossed a US$4 billion annualised AI revenue run rate — reportedly the highest in China — while simultaneously dismantling Lark as a standalone unit and folding it into its…
A bipartisan Senate push is forcing Apple into an uncomfortable corner: abandon Chinese memory chip suppliers CXMT and YMTC —…
More than 5 crore income tax returns are already in for AY 2026-27, but the Income Tax Department is sounding the alarm ahead of…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 is slashing AI comic drama production costs to as low as 25,000 yuan — over six times cheaper than…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he is 'very close' to models that will significantly accelerate scientific discovery. His approach:…
A six-year-old girl's death after a bespoke CRISPR-linked gene-editing trial in China has exposed failures in risk assessment and…
Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers say satellite imagery shows US military bases in the Middle East suffered more damage…
Google has made its Gemini Spark agentic AI — powered by the Gemini 3.6 Flash model — available in Hong Kong for the first time,…
Chinese MLCC makers including Guangdong Fenghua and Chaozhou Three-Circle have surged up to 180% in 2026 as AI data centre…
