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The Daily Review: 24 April 2026
DeepSeek Disrupts with V4 Model and Strategic Huawei Pivot Hangzhou-based DeepSeek has released its V4 model, touting industry-leading performance-to-cost ratios. Crucially, the lab is shifting its P...
Apr 24, 2026
The Daily Review: 23 April 2026
China Unveils $14 Trillion "AI-Driven" Service Sector Roadmap On April 22, the State Council issued sweeping new guidelines aiming to expand China’s service sector into a 100 trillion yuan ($14 tri...
Apr 23, 2026
The Daily Review: 22 April 2026
Alipay Debuts "AI Pay" for Autonomous "Lobster" Agents Ant Group's Alipay has launched a specialized payment service designed specifically for autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents, colloqui...
Apr 22, 2026
The Daily Review: 21 April 2026
iQIYI Sparks National Backlash Over "AI Actor Database" Streaming giant iQIYI has debuted Nadou Pro, an AI toolkit designed to allow filmmakers to utilize AI-generated likenesses of actors. Despite t...
Apr 21, 2026
The Daily Review: 20 April 2026
Today's CTR: The Chinese technology landscape is currently defined by a strategic pivot toward utility and structural resilience. While state media signals a cultural embrace of Large Language Models ...
Apr 20, 2026
The Weekly Review: 13-19 April 2026
The Week in Tech: The Chinese technology landscape is moving beyond the race for raw computational power toward a more sophisticated, self-sufficient ecosystem. Hardware sovereignty—driven by domest...
Apr 19, 2026
The Daily Review: 18 April 2026
DeepSeek V4 Rumored to Run Natively on Huawei Ascend Platform Industry reports and commentary from Nvidia’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) suggest that the upcoming DeepSeek V4 model is being optimi...
Apr 18, 2026
The Daily Review: 17 April 2026
DeepSeek Talent War Intensifies Rumors regarding astronomical compensation packages have surfaced following reports of a potential $100M annual salary for DeepSeek researcher Guo Daya. Whil...
Apr 17, 2026
The Daily Review: 16 April 2026
Huawei Reclaims the Throne Market analysts and International Data Corporation [IDC] confirmed on April 15 that Huawei has secured the number one market share spot in China for Q1 2026, capturing 19.8...
Apr 16, 2026
The Daily Review: 15 April 2026
DeepSeek V4 Rumors Intensify Industry leaks suggest that DeepSeek is preparing to launch its V4 model in late April, featuring a massive 1-trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. No...
Apr 15, 2026