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Chinese technology giant known for its dominant search engine, cloud and AI services, and the Apollo Go autonomous-driving/robotaxi unit.
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SemiAnalysis's count of more than 1,000 Chinese datacenters puts the operating fleet above 24GW, larger than EMEA or the rest of Asia. For listed landlords such as GDS and VNET, the open question moves from how big the market is to how much rent its largest tenants will pay.
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Reuters says the Cyberspace Administration registered Apple's Alibaba-assisted service last month, a hurdle ChatGPT and Claude have not cleared. Apple would be the first foreign firm to run its own model there.
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Fares match a standard UberX and there is no tip prompt, so the economics of this launch phase are not about cost per mile. Uber's own survey found more than 100,000 interested Londoners, against 15 licensed cars.
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Range Intelligent Computing was the only bid for Hong Kong's flagship data center cluster. It is now pursuing roughly HK$20bn of short-term bank loans against a project estimated at HK$23.8bn that is not due to reach full computing capacity until 2032.
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Flexdrive handles vehicle readiness, maintenance and depot operations while the Lyft app gets a Waymo when one is available. Lyft sold its own autonomy unit to Toyota for $550 million in 2021.
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JPMorgan lifted its Tesla price target from $145 to $475 while moving the stock only to neutral. Its $320 billion robotaxi projection for 2035 runs almost entirely through cars Tesla builds and owns itself.
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Siri AI reaches US iPhones on the 15th, six days after the Duo was unveiled. Apple has published no date for Europe, where the EU wants rival assistants reading the same emails Siri does, or for China, where an Alibaba-and-Baidu build awaits approval.
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A Foreign Affairs essay argues the May strategic stability consensus is holding, and the same essay concedes that Beijing never expected it to stop new listings from landing, which is the part supply chain planning has to absorb.
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The first autonomous rides in the UK arrive with a licensed driver in every seat and a fare no higher than a normal Uber, and the $8.6 billion valuation is really a bet on the regulatory approval still to come.
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Fifteen supervised cars joined the Uber app in London on Thursday under a licence that keeps a human in the driving seat until a separate agency, which few expect to move this year, says otherwise.
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Mainland usage of OpenClaw runs at nearly twice America's, on SecurityScorecard's count. The state has tallied almost 23,000 exposed installs without publishing the base that would make that a rate.
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R2 was co-designed with GAC Aion so 33 sensors could feed one computer across three vehicle domains, and the Beijing and Guangzhou trial tests whether owning the car and the dispatch network beats buying either, though no intervention rate came with it.
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The rating agency reads the gap as cash flow rather than ambition, but its own report ranks chip access as the tighter constraint, and the June quarter run rate already sits above the 2026 forecast.
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Alibaba's capital spending rose 75% and it blamed chip component prices as well as volume. Its payback math needs the shortage to hold until 2030.
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Standard UberX and Uber Comfort riders in two Dubai districts can now be matched with an empty Baidu Apollo Go car. The "Autonomous" button raises the odds; it is not the gate.
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The West Lake humanoids do perception, guidance and voice, then hand every infraction to a human officer. The scope cut is the most transferable part of the deployment.
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A Forbes account puts the Zeekr-built Ojai at about $38,000 before more than 125 percent in stacked duties. Waymo is buying in volume anyway, which is a statement about assumed margin.
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Revenue fell for a fifth straight quarter because a 19 percent ad decline on a bigger base beats 25 percent AI growth on a smaller one. Capex tripled meanwhile.
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Second-quarter revenue fell 4% to 31.3 billion yuan as a 19% drop in online marketing outran a 2.5 billion yuan gain in AI. This is the subtraction every incumbent faces.
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TrendForce now expects domestic silicon to take about 90% of China's AI accelerator market in 2026, up from 45%. The arithmetic says the constraint is fab and packaging output, not Washington.
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