China’s app ecosystem never sleeps. This week Xiaohongshu made a move that could finally flip its gender ratio, WeChat reminded everyone why it is still the platform to beat, and an app with the most morbid name I’ve seen in…
Huawei held its annual financial systems summit in Shenzhen this week, and the real news wasn’t the spreadsheets. CTO Zheng Jun unveiled what the company calls the Tau (τ) design principle — a chip engineering framework that Huawei claims will…
China’s AI labs are not slowing down. In the past week alone, DeepSeek locked in a permanent 75% API price cut, ByteDance floated a $70 billion annual AI infrastructure budget, and at least three domestic teams dropped new models or…
A few weeks ago, an app called “死了么” went viral in China. The name is a dark pun on Ele.me, the food delivery giant, but instead of ordering dinner, you checked in daily to prove you were still alive. Miss…
I keep thinking about a scene I read about in a Chinese news report last week. In Nanning, Guangxi, a vintage clothing store owner named Li Wangchuan watched young people rifle through racks of second-hand shirts. They were not just…
You know how WeChat just sits there, doing the same thing for years, and then one month it drops half a dozen changes at once? That is May 2026. I have been tracking the grayscale tests rolling out across iOS…
SHANGHAI — Huawei’s semiconductor chief He Tingbo walked on stage at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2026) on Monday and did something no Chinese company has done before. She proposed a new guiding principle for the…
DeepSeek’s V4 series has been out for a month. The company made its temporary discounts permanent. The open source community built something that makes the API even cheaper. Reasonix is a terminal coding harness built specifically for DeepSeek’s API. It…
May 21 was a busy night in Beijing. Lei Jun took the stage for Xiaomi’s “Human-Car-Home” launch event and dropped three products that matter. The YU7 GT, the YU7 Standard, and the Xiaomi 17 Max phone. I’ve been tracking Xiaomi’s…
WeChat has been unusually chatty about itself this month. Three separate updates, a rare peek at team size, and an official explanation for a feature everyone complains about. For an app that usually just drops changes in your lap, this…