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

DeepSeek’s updated R1 model has tied Google’s Gemini 2.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 on the WebDev Arena coding leaderboard. Released in May, the enhanced R1 reportedly improves reasoning and halves ...

Alipay has integrated in-store payment functionality into Rokid’s new AR glasses, enabling users to complete purchases using voice commands and QR scans. With over 250,000 units reportedly preordered, ...

The Trump administration has issued a third executive order delaying TikTok’s US ban, granting ByteDance 90 more days to divest. The app remains subject to a 2024 law requiring a qualified sale over ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...