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- Douyin cracks down on fake foreign accounts amid wave of ‘TikTok refugees’by Wency Chen on 16 January 2025 at 13:00
Some mainland Chinese users have reposted videos, pretending to be foreign users to gain more followers, according to Douyin.
- Apple trails Huawei, Vivo in China smartphone market in 2024, iPhone leads fourth quarterby Iris Deng on 16 January 2025 at 11:00
iPhone shipments plummeted 25 per cent in China last quarter, pushing Apple to third place for the year amid rising competition.
- China ahead of the US in some areas of autonomous driving, robotics, executives sayby Coco Feng on 16 January 2025 at 09:30
Pony.ai vice-president says China’s agile policies allow fast proof of concept, as well as failure and retry, which facilitates quick iterations.
- TSMC logs record quarterly profit, sees hefty revenue growth in early 2025by Reuters on 16 January 2025 at 08:30
Stock price of the world’s largest contract chipmaker has leapt despite uncertainty posed by Donald Trump.
- Tech war: US adds Chinese AI unicorn Zhipu to trade blacklist before Biden’s exitby Ben Jiang on 16 January 2025 at 07:30
Zhipu AI is among more than two dozen China and Singapore-based companies added to the US Entity List on Wednesday.
- BitMEX fined US$100 million for violating US anti-money-laundering lawsby Reuters on 16 January 2025 at 03:01
Prosecutors accuse BitMEX and its founders of failing to adopt anti-money-laundering and “know your customer” programmes.
- TikTok to shut down US operations on Sunday, barring a last-minute reprieve, sources sayby Reuters on 16 January 2025 at 02:30
Shutting down TikTok in the US could make it unavailable for users in many other countries, the company has said.
- For good or ill, AI is changing modern loveby Phoebe Zhang on 16 January 2025 at 01:30
Millions of Chinese are downloading AI companions to feel connection but my time spent with one app shows even chatbots have character flaws.
