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Sources: Alibaba has banned employees from using Claude Code and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers, citing security concerns (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-3 Alibaba

Alibaba and its US payment processor AUS agree to pay $600M to resolve DOJ allegations that they failed to prevent illegal sales of drugs and other products (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-2 Alibaba

Sources: Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo told suppliers they will again cut 2026 shipment targets, with Xiaomi cutting 30% to ~95M units (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-30 China Xiaomi OPPO Vivo

As a new law bars DOD from working with companies whose lobbyists also represent blacklisted entities, DC lobbying firms drop companies like Alibaba and Tencent (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-30 Alibaba Tencent

Chinese robotics startup AI² Robotics raised ~$736M at a ~$2.9B valuation; Alibaba-backed X Square Robot raised an undisclosed amount at a ~$2.9B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-29 China Alibaba Startup AI Robot

Sources: CXMT and Tencent sign a ~$3B, three-year DRAM supply agreement for servers ahead of CXMT's IPO; CXMT is in talks with other major Chinese companies (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-29 China IPO Tencent

Get a durable, refurbished Lenovo Chromebook for $55 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-28 Lenovo

Sources: Meituan, Baidu, Xiaomi, and other Chinese tech giants have been trimming their workforces, fueling Chinese workers' concerns of being replaced by AI (www.scmp.com)
2026-6-27 China AI Xiaomi

Anthropic Says Alibaba Must Be Punished For Largest Claude Cloning Attack (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 Alibaba

Alibaba falls ~5% in Hong Kong after Anthropic accused it of “illicitly” accessing its AI models, taking its YTD fall to 33%; Xiaomi and Baidu fell 3%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25 Hong Kong Alibaba AI Xiaomi

Sources: in a letter to US officials, Anthropic accused Alibaba of adversarial distillation, accessing Claude 28.8M times from April to June via ~25K accounts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25 Alibaba

Alibaba sues the DOD, seeking removal from a blacklist of companies supporting China's military, says the decision is a violation of constitutional due process (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-24 China Alibaba

Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from several game studio investments in Japan, including Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-23 Japan Tencent Tokyo

Tencent starts testing the new Xiaowei AI assistant powered by WeLM and DeepSeek models in its WeChat app in China, in an effort to catch up in the AI race (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-22 China AI WeChat Tencent

This refurbished Lenovo Chromebook is just $79.99 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-19 Lenovo

Sources: the early Chinese backers of Manus, including HSG and Tencent, plan to buy the AI startup back from Meta at the $2B price Meta paid (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-18 China Startup AI Tencent

Sources: a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead of Alibaba's Qwen models, has raised several hundred million dollars at a ~$2B post-money valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-17 Alibaba AI

Alibaba's AI unit Tongyi Lab launches the Qwen Robot Suite, its first family of AI models for robots, in pilot testing with some enterprise clients (www.scmp.com)
2026-6-16 Alibaba AI Robot

Trump's 'Made In the USA' Phone Is Just a Reskinned HTC U24 Pro (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-6-16 Trump U.S. HTC

Tencent-backed Enflame receives approval for a Shanghai IPO and plans to raise ~$888M; Enflame is the last of China's four leading AI chipmakers to go to market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-15 China IPO AI Tencent Shanghai

Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-15 China Alibaba

Xiaomi releases MiMo Code V0.1.0, an open-source AI coding assistant that it says outperforms Claude Code on agentic coding and software engineering benchmarks (venturebeat.com)
2026-6-12 AI Xiaomi

A teardown reveals the Trump Mobile T1 is a gold-painted HTC U24 Pro but features some changes, including memory from Micron instead of SK Hynix (www.ifixit.com)
2026-6-11 Trump Mobile HTC

Alibaba stock fell ~6.5% and JD.com fell ~6% after China reprimanded e-commerce players over alleged false advertising during the “618” annual shopping festival (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-11 China Alibaba

Sources: Alibaba replaces DingTalk CEO Chen Hang with Chen Yusen after an internal debate over the enterprise communication app's role in Alibaba's AI strategy (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-11 Alibaba AI

US Labels BYD, Baidu, Alibaba and Other Tech Giants As Aiding China's Military (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-10 China Alibaba

A group of Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba and CXMT, launches a ~$577M PE fund to boost China's “hard tech” sectors amid tightening US export curbs (www.scmp.com)
2026-6-9 China Alibaba

Xiaomi claims MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed tops 1K tokens/second, a first at the 1T-parameter scale, using a standard 8-GPU commodity node; API trial starts June 9 (decrypt.co)
2026-6-9 Xiaomi

The US DOD designates some of China's biggest companies, including Alibaba, BYD, and Baidu, as entities that support the Chinese military (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-9 China Alibaba

Alibaba says it is opening Qwen to third-party AI agents, starting with KFC, Mixue, and others, and Qwen's app serves 100M+ daily lifestyle services engagements (www.scmp.com)
2026-6-4 Alibaba AI KFC

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