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Southeast Asia needn't take sides in US-China tech rivalry. It can learn from both, experts say

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-08-08 02:31:15

A woman holds a cell phone featuring the DeepSeek logo, with the Nvidia logo displayed in the background. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images As China and the U.S. compete in artificial intelligence, Southeast Asia should draw from the best of both countries while building its own technologies, panelists said at CNBC's East Tech West 2025 conference on June 27 in Bangkok, Thailand. Julian Gorman, head of Asia-Pacific at mobile network trade organization GSMA, said it would be a negative developm

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Why the US and Europe could lose the race for fusion energy

technologyreview.com Daniel F. Brunner 2025-08-08 01:00:00

The US and Europe were the dominant public funders of fusion energy research and are home to many of the world’s pioneering private fusion efforts. The West has consequently developed many of the basic technologies that will make fusion power work. But in the past five years China’s support of fusion energy has surged, threatening to allow the country to dominate the industry. The industrial base available to support China’s nascent fusion energy industry could enable it to climb the learning c

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Trump advisor Navarro rips Apple's Tim Cook, saying he's not moving production out of China fast enough

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-08-09 09:10:57

White House trade advisor Peter Navarro criticized Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday over the company's response to pressure from the Trump administration to make more of its products outside China. "Going back to the first Trump term, Tim Cook has continually asked for more time in order to move his factories out of China," Navarro said in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street." "I mean it's the longest-running soap opera in Silicon Valley." CNBC has reached out to Apple for comment on Nava

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US may get its own glitchy version of TikTok if Trump’s deal works out

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-09 09:35:10

Could Donald Trump possibly follow through on his campaign promise to save TikTok by finally making a deal that keeps the app operating in the US without compromising America's national security? Outlook not so good. Despite The Information reporting that a new version of TikTok is being prepped to launch in the US market this September, even Trump can't be sure the deal is imminent. "We pretty much have a deal," Trump recently told reporters on Air Force One, suggesting that he thinks he wil

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Trump advisor Navarro rips Apple's Tim Cook for not moving production out of China fast enough

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-08-09 17:39:29

White House trade advisor Peter Navarro chastised Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday over the company's response to pressure from the Trump administration to make more of its products outside of China. "Going back to the first Trump term, Tim Cook has continually asked for more time in order to move his factories out of China," Navarro said in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street." "I mean it's the longest-running soap opera in Silicon Valley." CNBC has reached out to Apple for comment on Na

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The Download: China’s winning at advanced manufacturing, and a potential TikTok sale

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-08-10 01:10:00

In 2013, a trio of academics showed convincing evidence that increased trade with China beginning in the early 2000s and the resulting flood of cheap imports had been an unmitigated disaster for many US communities, destroying their manufacturing lifeblood. The results of what they called the “China shock” were gut-wrenching: the loss of 1 million US manufacturing jobs and 2.4 million jobs in total by 2011. If in retrospect all that seems obvious, it’s only because the research by David Auto

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The latest threat from the rise of Chinese manufacturing

technologyreview.com David Rotman 2025-08-10 09:00:00

If in retrospect all that seems obvious, it’s only because the research by David Autor, an MIT labor economist, and his colleagues has become an accepted, albeit often distorted, political narrative these days: China destroyed all our manufacturing jobs! Though the nuances of the research are often ignored, the results help explain at least some of today's political unrest. It’s reflected in rising calls for US protectionism, President Trump’s broad tariffs on imported goods, and nostalgia for t

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Move Over Messi: China’s New Robot Soccer League Is Wild!

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-10 02:33:56

China has officially launched its first humanoid robot football league. And while the players may not breathe, they’re already learning to dribble, shoot, fall, and get back up. The RoBoLeague, which began on June 28, 2025 in Beijing, pits AI-controlled humanoid robots against each other in fully autonomous 3-on-3 soccer matches. The first match featured robot teams developed by Tsinghua University and China Agricultural University. Tsinghua’s squad won the game with a final score of 5-3. The

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How Stablecoins Became the Digital Gold Standard

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-10 03:03:15

Recently, I met someone who is fluent in Chinese through Skewer Coaching. We talked about apps that are frequently used in China, and I told them about the ones I have used. Even those who don’t know much about China have probably heard of WeChat. There is even a joke that you can’t do almost anything in China without WeChat. Ordering food, calling a taxi, shopping, making payments, and even using government services can all be done within WeChat. Compared to KakaoTalk or Naver, which are common

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Apple reverts China slump, sees first iPhone quarterly growth in two years [report]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-12 13:24:42

For the past two years, Apple has been having a tough time in China. Just recently, the U.S. trade war and local incentives from the Chinese government really got in the way of iPhone sales. However, Apple seems to be regaining control of the situation. A two-year long downturn in China As we covered recently, Apple’s extended rough patch in China may finally be easing. Since Q3 2022, the company has posted year-over-year revenue growth in just one quarter, with declines of up to 13% in the ot

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Apple's China iPhone sales grows for the first time in two years

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-08-14 08:54:26

Apple iPhone sales in China rose in the second quarter of the year for the first time in two years, Counterpoint Research said, as the tech giant looks to turnaround its business in one of its most critical markets. Sales of iPhones in China jumped 8% year-on-year in the three months to the end of June, according to Counterpoint Research. It's the first time Apple has recorded growth in China since the second quarter of 2023. Apple's performance was boosted by promotions in May as Chinese e-co

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U.S. lifts chip software curbs on China amid trade truce

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-08-14 20:58:53

The U.S. government has rescinded its export restrictions on chip-design software to China, semiconductor software companies Synopsys and Cadence announced Thursday. "Synopsys is working to restore access to the recently restricted products in China," the California-based software maker said in a statement. Its rival, Cadence, confirmed with CNBC that the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security, which falls under the Department of Commerce, had reversed the export restrictions. "We are in the pr

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China's Huawei open-sources AI models as it seeks adoption across the global AI market

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-08-19 07:49:44

In recent years, the company has transformed from a competent private sector telecommunications firm into a "muscular technology juggernaut straddling the entire AI hardware and software stack," said Paul Triolo, partner and senior vice president for China at advisory firm DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group. Huawei has open-sourced two of its artificial intelligence models — a move tech experts say will help the U.S.-blacklisted firm continue to build its AI ecosystem and expand overseas. The Chin

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Watch: Humanoid robots stumble through football match in China

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-18 09:03:01

Humanoid robots kicked, scored and tumbled while competing at a ROBO League football tourmentant in Beijing, China on Saturday. Four teams faced off in a series of 3-on-3 games, with the robots operating autonomously using AI driven strategies. The event served as a preview to the upcoming World Humanoid Robot Games, being held in Beijing in August.

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Shenzhou-20 astronauts complete second spacewalk to enhance Tiangong station

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Jones 2025-08-21 13:48:13

HELSINKI — Two Chinese astronauts conducted an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Thursday, marking their second spacewalk in five weeks. Astronaut Chen Zhongrui opened the Wentian module hatch at 3:04 a.m. Eastern (0704 UTC) June 26, beginning activities, ascending to the tip of Tiangong’s robotic arm. Mission commander Chen Dong, wearing a Feitian EVA suit with blue stripes, joined his colleague two hours later. Wang Jie, formerly an engineer with the China Aerospace S

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Germany asks Apple and Google to pull DeepSeek AI app over data privacy concerns

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-21 17:15:58

Germany just became the latest country to move against DeepSeek over mounting data privacy concerns. Here’s why this keeps happening. As you probably guessed, it’s a China thing When DeepSeek took the world by storm earlier this year, it wasn’t long before it found itself in the crosshairs of governments in the West. First, because users quickly learned that its models were heavily moderated, skirting answering questions that could cast China and its government in a bad light. Second, and mo

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Trump Goes Haywire on AI Regulation After China Agrees to Major Trade Deal

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-21 20:23:08

American president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping have finally resolved a months-long trade dispute revolving around the rare earth metals vital to developing artificial intelligence. It's a resolution that makes it all the more bizarre that the US President is opening the floodgates for an AI arms race with China. Following Trump's baffling "Liberation Day" tariffs back in April, Chinese lawmakers moved to cut the flow of rare earth metals into the US. China has a near-global mo

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Germany tells Apple, Google to block DeepSeek as the Chinese AI app faces rising pressure in Europe

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-08-23 18:09:21

In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen and in the background, the flag of the European Union. One of Germany's data protection watchdogs on Friday said DeepSeek's app illegally sends user data to China and asked Google and Apple to consider blocking the artificial intelligence service. Berlin's data protection commissioner Meike Kamp said in a statement that DeepSeek's transfer of German user data to China is "unlawful." There is not a readily a

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Blacklisted by the U.S. and backed by Beijing, this Chinese AI startup has caught OpenAI's attention

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-08-26 03:34:18

OpenAI is putting a spotlight on an under-the-radar artificial intelligence startup that it believes is on the "front line" of China's race to lead the world in AI — and its not DeepSeek. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company wrote that Beijing-backed Zhipu AI has made "notable progress" in the AI race, as global competition ramps up. Zhipu AI, founded in 2019, has been referred by domestic media as one of China's "AI tigers" — a class of large language model unicorns seen as key to Beijing

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Apple’s China comeback playbook now includes government-backed discounts

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-28 21:28:33

After a rocky stretch, Apple managed to bounce back last month with a 15% jump in iPhone sales, driven largely by renewed demand in the U.S. and China. In China, especially, Apple had been losing ground to local brands benefiting from government subsidies on lower-cost phones. Now, it appears Apple is joining the subsidy program itself. When in China… take the subsidy As reported by South China Morning Post (via MacRumors), shoppers in Shanghai and Beijing can now get up to ¥2,000 (about US$2

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Chinese Military Shows Off Fly-Sized Drones for Covert Ops

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-29 05:39:36

When it comes to robotics, nobody's doing it quite like China. Despite not truly industrializing until the 1950s — some 75 years after the United States — the nation has surged to the global forefront of robotics development. Between 2022 and 2023, China installed over half of all global robotics installed throughout the globe, scoring the second-highest annual robot deployment ever recorded — a close runner up to its own previous record, which it set between 2021 and 2022. Since then, the sec

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How war-torn Myanmar plays a critical role in China's rare earth dominance

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-08-30 00:51:48

Illustration of the national flag of the People's Republic of China and a mining site. Craig Hastings | Moment | Getty Images Beijing has been stepping up controls on rare earth exports, triggering global shortages and exposing industries' dependence on Chinese supply chains. However, over recent years, China itself has become reliant on rare earth supplies from an unexpected source: the relatively small and war-torn economy of Myanmar. While China is the world's top producer of rare earths, it

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Canada says telcos were breached in China-linked espionage hacks

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-08-31 13:35:15

In Brief The Canadian government and the FBI say they are aware of malicious activity targeting telecommunication companies across Canada, attributing the intrusions to the China-backed hacking group Salt Typhoon. In a joint advisory out late Friday, the feds said at least one unnamed Canadian telco was hacked in mid-February this year, in which hackers manipulated three Cisco-made routers to allow stealthy traffic collection from its network. The feds say that separate investigations suggest

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Chip stocks fall on report U.S. could terminate waivers for Taiwan Semi and others

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-02 21:26:22

A motorcycle is seen near a building of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on April 16, 2025. Semiconductor stocks declined Friday following a report that the U.S. is weighing measures that would terminate waivers allowing some chipmakers to send American technology to China. Commerce Department official Jeffrey Kessler told Samsung Electronics , SK Hynix and Taiw

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Tesla inks first deal to build China's largest grid-scale battery power plant

cnbc.com Ganesh Rao 2025-09-03 09:48:19

Tesla has inked its first deal to build a grid-scale battery power plant in China amid a strained trading relationship between Beijing and Washington. The U.S. company posted on the Chinese social media service Weibo that the project would be the largest of its kind in China when completed. Utility-scale battery energy storage systems help electricity grids keep supply and demand in balance. They are increasingly needed to bridge the supply-demand mismatch caused by intermittent energy sources

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Trump suggests he needs China to sign off on TikTok sale, delays deal again

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-07 21:28:59

The White House confirmed that Donald Trump has extended the deadline for a TikTok sale for a third time, Reuters reported Wednesday. Now, China-based ByteDance has 90 days to divest its US assets or potentially be forced to shut down US operations. Trump's announcement came one day before the June 19 deadline he established through his last extension. That extension was necessary after Vice President JD Vance failed to make a "high-level" deal expected in April, which Politico branded a "make

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U.S. and China drive iPhone rebound for April and May

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-08 21:38:24

After a rocky start to the year, the iPhone business is showing signs recovery, especially in China, where Apple had recently been overtaken by local brands riding on an aggressive government-backed subsidy plan. Here’s the latest data. The new report from Counterpoint Research (via MacRumors) says iPhone sales grew 15% year-over-year across April and May, marking Apple’s strongest performance for this time of year since the pandemic. It’s a sharp rebound driven by renewed demand in both the U

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Apple Intelligence could be about to launch in China despite US government fears

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-10 17:05:35

There are strong indications that Apple Intelligence could be about to launch in China, following its deal with Alibaba to use its Qwen models. A local report says that Alibaba has updated its ChatGPT competitor Qwen3, which has been optimized for the AI framework used on Apple devices … Apple can’t use ChatGPT in China Apple partnered with OpenAI for the launch of Apple Intelligence, with fallback to ChatGPT for anything Apple’s own AI systems can’t handle. However, ChatGPT is banned in Chi

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Trump Touts China Trade Deal: Tariffs Back to Square One, Still Historically High

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-13 08:30:00

Greg Baker/Getty Images President Donald Trump last week took to Truth Social to tout a new tentative trade agreement with China, albeit one that only really takes things back to square one and leaves the tariff rate against Beijing at historically high levels. "WE ARE GETTING A TOTAL OF 55% TARIFFS, CHINA IS GETTING 10%," Trump's post to Truth Social read, with a later post adding, "President Xi [Jinping] and I are going to work closely together to open up China to American Trade. This would

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Taiwan places export controls on Huawei and SMIC

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-13 04:14:24

In Brief Chinese companies Huawei and SMIC may have a difficult time accessing resources needed to build AI chips, due to Taiwanese export controls. Bloomberg reports that Taiwan’s International Trade Administration placed the two companies and their subsidiaries on an updated list of entities designated as strategic high-tech commodities. That means Taiwanese businesses will need government approval before they can ship anything to either company. As a result, Huawei and SMIC will lose acces

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Southeast Asia needn't take sides in US-China tech rivalry. It can learn from both, experts say

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Trump advisor Navarro rips Apple's Tim Cook, saying he's not moving production out of China fast enough

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China's Huawei open-sources AI models as it seeks adoption across the global AI market

Watch: Humanoid robots stumble through football match in China

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Blacklisted by the U.S. and backed by Beijing, this Chinese AI startup has caught OpenAI's attention

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U.S. and China drive iPhone rebound for April and May

Apple Intelligence could be about to launch in China despite US government fears

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