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How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

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What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

Deep Tech

How does interactive entertainment evolve? Assess gaming ecosystems, esports growth, and technology enhancing virtual play.

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In Love and Deepspace, female players are falling for AI-driven men who whisper their names, remember their stories, and never argue back.

The women falling in love with AI, and how otome game makers profit from it

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What powers digital devices? Delve into chip design, manufacturing bottlenecks, and semiconductor breakthroughs fueling global electronics.

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The Chinese chipmaker has built a vertically integrated GPGPU ecosystem, and now seeks new capital to scale it.

Iluvatar CoreX becomes first Chinese GPGPU firm to gain HKEX listing approval

CHENG Zi is based in China, covering technology and business-related events. She works with her colleagues at 36Kr Global to provide coverage in both English and Chinese.

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China’s tech ecosystem serves as a driving force behind the world’s second largest economy, influencing global digital markets.

Dreame

Explore East Asia’s thriving tech hubs, global electronics producers, and fast-evolving digital platforms shaping cross-border innovation.

East Asia

How does automation advance industry? Analyze robotic arms, drones, and AI-driven tools reshaping manufacturing and services.

Borrowing from the playbook of autonomous vehicles, Dreame uses LiDAR tech to achieve what traditional garden toolmakers couldn’t.

Dreame’s robotic lawn mowers lead the pack with a smart LiDAR edge

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How do connected devices shape daily life? Examine IoT sensors, data platforms, and security protocols integrating smart tech into homes and cities.

Internet of Things

How does information move at light speed? Review 5G rollouts, fiber networks, and connectivity standards advancing global communication.

Telecommunications

Ping An is looking at disease prevention, especially illnesses that are contagious like flu or lifestyle-related, such as heart disease or diabetes.

Reducing contagion - Ping An’s AI team can now predict flu outbreaks with 90% accuracy

Reducing contagion &#8211; Ping An’s AI team can now predict flu outbreaks with 90% accuracy

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The round was led by Temasek-linked Pavilion Capital and China-based VC Gaorong Capital.

Singapore-based Advance.ai raises USD 80 million for regional expansion

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What grounds digital progress in physical form? Analyze chipsets, sensors, and advanced components driving device performance.

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Centurium Capital, major investor behind Luckin Coffee, and Princeville Capital, once backer of Alibaba, Baidu, Xiaomi, and Facebook, led this round.

Chinese AI chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX raises several hundred million RMB in Series B round

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Alibaba, China’s e-commerce giant, operates online retail marketplaces, cloud computing services, and digital payment networks across Asia and beyond.

How are driverless systems redefining mobility? Uncover sensor technologies, regulatory frameworks, and AI driving cars without human intervention.

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Chinese automaker SAIC Motor is the main backer.

Chinese autonomous driving sensor developer CalmCar raises USD 14 million

Tencent, a Chinese tech conglomerate, invests in gaming, social media, and cloud services, supporting entertainment and connectivity worldwide.

A sign of Tencent's ambition in the IoT sector.

Tencent open-sources IoT operating system TencentOS tiny

Its smart speaker Tmall Genie may soon come with a screen.

Alibaba shells out millions of dollars for top vision tech researchers to regain smart speaker edge

The startup is the world's first autonomous trucking unicorn with a global clientele.

Chinese autonomous trucking startup TuSimple raises USD 215 million in Series D

Tencent will collect high-definition photographies of the site's relics, while also filming a new drama series.

Tencent teams up with Beijing's Forbidden City for digitalization and content co-production

Tencent teams up with Beijing&#8217;s Forbidden City for digitalization and content co-production

Its companion robots are expected to be deployed in Qingdao's schools soon.