Tencent’s @Weixin_WeChat is partnering with smartphone makers, including Huawei, Xiaomi, Honor, Oppo, and Vivo, to let users initiate WeChat calls or send messages directly through built-in AI assistants. Tencent’s customer service confirmed to Yicai that Honor has already completed integration of the new Agent-to-Agent assistant capabilities.
China’s Chery Auto and Japan’s Nissan Motor signed a preliminary deal to explore the production of Chery vehicles at Nissan's plant in Sunderland, as the Japanese firm seeks to make better use of spare capacity at the UK’s largest car factory, Nissan said yesterday. The plant could begin manufacturing Chery passenger vehicles as early as next year. @CheryAutoCo@NissanMotor
NEW from me: Anthropic’s Mythos isn’t cheap—one tester burned through $1M of tokens in a couple weeks—but companies are still budgeting for it to prevent hacks: https://t.co/Q6nck5ThSm
The Economist: “Outside its highest-tech sectors, rich north-east Asia is deindustrialising. Strong competition from China, paired with increasing specialisation in chips, has disrupted an economic model.”
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Hong Kong plans to set up a new International Commercial Court within a year to handle complex cross-border disputes, with judgments enforceable in the Chinese mainland to bolster its status as a global legal hub https://t.co/zajuQ5if7k
@KettlebellDan I just left the SpaceXAI office at ~2:45am and people were still going.
I think we might be close to a significant breakthrough in training.
Duan Yongping, an investor known as China’s Warren Buffett, has recently raised his stakes in Pop Mart through H&H International Investment to 5.69% from 4.96%, becoming the Chinese toymaker's second-largest shareholder. @POPMARTGlobal
My #CarnegieAsia teammate Barbara Weisel is an experienced trade professional and was the U.S. chief negotiator of the TPP trade pact. She weighs in on Trump's Beijing trip, calling the outcome "managed instability." To Barbara, the confluence of events on Washington's trade agenda in the coming months will make achieving even the limited goal of managing economic tensions more challenging than some experts are asserting. A good read. https://t.co/IEJOASjbFO
Huawei has outlined a new approach to chip design — a departure from the decades-long industry focus on shrinking transistors to improve performance. Here's why it has investors buzzing. https://t.co/DyaFd4KvwQ
After an estimated $1 trillion of unauthorized money left China last year, authorities have launched a sweeping crackdown on offshore trading platforms accused of helping investors bypass Beijing’s capital controls. Here's what to know https://t.co/Et0ZKOG3f3