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XPeng Bets Big on Physical AI as Q1 Sales Slump Exposes Execution Gaps

XPENG capped a breakthrough 2025 with its first-ever profitable quarter, but a sharp first-quarter 2026 sales miss is testing whether the company's ambitious pivot toward physical AI can survive self-inflicted wounds in product strategy and brand architecture. The electric vehicle maker reported full-year 2025

Huawei unveils Ascend 950PR Atlas 350 with 2.9x Nvidia H20 performance as China scales AI inference

Huawei Technologies used its China Partner Conference 2026 to push its Ascend computing stack into broader commercial deployment, unveiling the Ascend 950PR-powered Atlas 350 accelerator card and positioning it as a higher-throughput alternative to Nvidia’s H20 for inference workloads. At the event, Huawei said the Atlas 350

Tencent’s WeChat Pushes Into AI Agents With ClawBot Plug-in, Turning Chat Into a Control Layer for OpenClaw

WeChat, Tencent Holdings’s flagship social app, is moving unusually fast to make itself the default “remote control” for AI agents, as it rolled out an official plug-in called ClawBot that lets users operate the open-source OpenClaw agent directly inside chats. The March 22 launch marks a notable

Chinese Automakers Overtake Japan in 2025 Global Sales, Led by BYD and Geely

Chinese automakers have become the world’s top-selling carmakers for the first time in 25 years, overtaking Japan in 2025 and tightening their grip on the industry’s shift toward electrification. According to a March 21 report by Nikkei, China’s auto manufacturers sold about 27 million vehicles globally

ChinaBiz Briefing | Tencent Cloud Profit, Moonshot AI Shift, Xiaomi and Xpeng Lead EV Intelligence, NIO Expands Infrastructure

The Big Picture: China’s tech sector is entering a new phase where AI economics, autonomous driving, and infrastructure scale are converging. Tencent and Alibaba are reshaping cloud models under AI cost pressure, while EV makers like Xiaomi, Xpeng and NIO push deeper into software-defined mobility. Meanwhile, China’s

Chinese AI OALL Ignites Open-Source BCI Debate, Putting Musk’s Neuralink Under Spotlight

A Chinese AI known as “OALL” has pushed brain-computer interfaces into a new market debate—open versus closed—raising investor-relevant questions about security, governance and who controls neural data as Neuralink prepares to scale production in 2026. A livestream hosted with no human on camera vaulted OALL onto

Cloud Giants Push Through AI-Driven Price Hikes as Token Demand Strains Compute and Networks

Global cloud providers are resetting pricing power in 2026 as AI inference demand collides with higher supply-chain and infrastructure costs, accelerating a broad-based shift from “scale-first” growth to margin protection. Alibaba Cloud and Baidu AI Cloud on March 18 became the latest major vendors to raise prices

NIO Accelerates Infrastructure Push with Seven New Power Swap Stations in Single-Day Blitz

NIO has executed another calculated expansion of its energy replenishment network, bringing seven new swap stations online in a single day on March 19. The move underscores the electric vehicle maker's continued commitment to infrastructure dominance as a primary moat against intensifying domestic competition in 2026. While the

Xiaomi Claims Viral “Hunter Alpha” Models as MiMo V2 Trio, Pressuring China’s Agent AI Pricing

Xiaomi used a triple model release to claim ownership of the viral “Hunter Alpha” and “Healer Alpha” systems on OpenRouter, reframing what developers had speculated might be a DeepSeek V4 preview into a price-aggressive push for agent-ready AI. The company said the anonymous models that topped OpenRouter’s

IM Motors’ “Ultra Agent” Bets on Qwen and Drive-by-Wire as LS8 Pre-Sales Near

IM Motors is repositioning the smart EV race around “embodied AI” by fusing cockpit intelligence with assisted driving and anchoring it on production-grade drive-by-wire hardware—an approach it says will debut in the LS8 ahead of pre-sales on March 26, 2026. At a March 18 technology