Japan’s Kao is making a renewed marketing push for cosmetics brand Kate across Asia, quintupling promotional expenses there ...

Ants, an urban revitalization startup, has raised USD 500,000 in pre-seed funding from Wavemaker Impact to convert Southeast Asia’s underused buildings into green, affordable hubs for SMEs. Based in ...

Tencent has denied media reports that it is pursuing acquisitions of South Korean firms Nexon and Kakao Mobility. The company rejected claims of a USD 15 billion bid for Nexon and a 40% stake purchase ...

TikTok has launched new AI-driven tools that let marketers generate five-second video ads from product images or text prompts. Part of its Symphony product, the features aim to cut production time and ...

Splat is an app that turns arguments into entertainment, where AI judges your roasts and fighting is framed as a form of ...

MiniMax has launched M1, an open-weight hybrid attention model built for long-context reasoning and complex tasks. With 456 billion parameters and support for one million-token inputs, MiniMax-M1 ...

China has begun its first clinical trial of wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, with a paralyzed patient reportedly controlling games by thought weeks after surgery. The implant, said ...

Baidu’s Apollo Go service has received approval to expand its robotaxi testing to Tung Chung, marking its third Hong Kong zone since December 2024. The move follows over 15,000 kilometers of ...

Taobao’s 618 campaign saw a surge in cross-border pet product sales, with more than 1,000 merchants doubling their YoY revenue. Chinese brands led in pet food and smart care devices, while small pet ...

HongShan, formerly Sequoia China, has open-sourced two datasets from its xBench benchmark to help developers test reasoning and search skills in real-world AI tasks. The ScienceQA and DeepSearch sets ...

JD.com has completed its acquisition of Dada Nexus, taking the on-demand delivery platform private in a cash deal valued at USD 2 per ADS. Dada delisted from Nasdaq on June 17 and will cease SEC ...

SAIC has launched the world’s largest RORO car carrier, Anji Hongsheng, a 9,500-vehicle vessel now en route to Europe with over 4,000 MG cars from Shanghai’s Jiading district. The ship is part of SAIC ...