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Facebook-parent Meta has announced the acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus which has Chinese roots. As reported by Financial Times, Meta has made its third largest acquisition deal after WhatsApp and ScaleAI. This move of the company underscores CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s aggressive push into advanced AI as the company is racing to compete against Google…
A Chinese billionaire has a similar wish as Telegram founder Pavel Durov’s – build a ‘dynasty of successors’, including fathering nearly two dozen US-born children who can inherit and manage his $1.1 billion fortune he has amassed through his gaming company – one of China’s largest mobile gaming entities. Xu Bo, the founder of Guangzhou…
DEHRADUN: Anjel Chakma and his younger brother Michael, both students who had been living in Dehradun for over a year, were allegedly stopped and taunted by a group of men who called them “Chinki”, “Chinese” and “Momo” during a routine grocery run in the Selaqui area of Uttarakhand’s capital. One of the men reportedly sneered,…
Representational AI photo Doctors in China have grafted a woman’s torn-off ear onto her foot to keep it alive, before later reattaching it to her head.The woman lost her ear in a workplace accident in April that also caused severe injuries to her scalp, neck and face. According to medical news platform Yixue Jie, also…
TikTok may have dodged a US ban but there still seem some unresolved issues about its algorithm. Recently, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew announced that the company had signed binding agreements to spin its US operations into a new joint venture with American investors set to close on January 22, taking a major step toward…
A group of 9 high-ranking US lawmakers has urged the Department of War (The Pentagon) to blacklist a total of 17 prominent Chinese technology firms, including DeepSeek – the company that stunned global tech sector with the launch of its R1 model in January 2025, and smartphone giant Xiaomi – a major tech players, specifically…
US-based iRobot, which was once considered one of America’s biggest consumer electronics companies, filed for bankruptcy last week. Now, Colin Angle, the co-founder and former CEO of the Roomba robot vacuum maker, has revealed what went wrong for the company. Angle claimed that unfair competition from Chinese companies played a major role in iRobot’s recent…
Sunil Mittal (File photo-ANI) New Delhi: Bharti Enterprises and Warburg Pincus on Wednesday announced a strategic investment in Haier India, a subsidiary of Chinese consumer electronics maker Haier Group, picking up a collective 49% stake in the company. This is the second Chinese company to have sold a significant stake in its Indian operations after…
FILE – A man rides past the Tencent headquarters in Beijing, China on Aug. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) Tencent, the Chinese tech giant has now found a way to legally access Nvidia’s most advanced semiconductors despite export restrictions imposed by the US. As reported by Financial Times, Tencent is using a partnership…
AI-generated image for representation purpose only A Chinese technology company is giving its employees renovated flats as an incentive to retain staff. According to a report by South China Morning Post, a company executive recently posted a job listing which said that the company, Zhejiang Guosheng Automotive Technology Co. Ltd plans to distribute 18 flats…
