Executive churn and slow progress on deliveries leave Haomo.AI at risk of being folded into Great Wall Motor as rivals gain ...

Whobot claims its AI voice agents are convincing enough that most users don’t realize they’re not human, and it just raised ...

InstaPay Technologies has secured USD 3 million in a Series A2 funding round, led by US family offices with renewed backing from ACA Investments. With this funding, the Malaysia-based fintech firm ...

Temu has signed a cloud hosting deal with Oracle amid ongoing US lawsuits and rising scrutiny over data privacy. The Chinese-owned app is accused of mishandling user data and is following TikTok’s ...

DeepSeek’s updated R1 model has tied Google’s Gemini 2.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 on the WebDev Arena coding leaderboard. Released in May, the enhanced R1 reportedly improves reasoning and halves ...

Alipay has integrated in-store payment functionality into Rokid’s new AR glasses, enabling users to complete purchases using voice commands and QR scans. With over 250,000 units reportedly preordered, ...

Ants, an urban revitalization startup, has raised USD 500,000 in pre-seed funding from Wavemaker Impact to convert Southeast Asia’s underused buildings into green, affordable hubs for SMEs. Based in ...

China has begun its first clinical trial of wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, with a paralyzed patient reportedly controlling games by thought weeks after surgery. The implant, said ...

Baidu hosted a six-hour live stream using AI-driven avatars, including a digital version of live streamer Yonghao Luo, drawing over 13 million views and RMB 55 million in sales. Powered by Ernie ...

TikTok has launched new AI-driven tools that let marketers generate five-second video ads from product images or text prompts. Part of its Symphony product, the features aim to cut production time and ...

MiniMax has launched M1, an open-weight hybrid attention model built for long-context reasoning and complex tasks. With 456 billion parameters and support for one million-token inputs, MiniMax-M1 ...

Baidu’s Apollo Go service has received approval to expand its robotaxi testing to Tung Chung, marking its third Hong Kong zone since December 2024. The move follows over 15,000 kilometers of ...