Dominant Chinese Artificial Intelligence firms rake in huge profits in niche markets
China’s vast domestic market provides fertile ground for AI adoption. Tech giants like Alibaba have begun integrating agentic AI, linking it with their existing digital infrastructure – spanning payments, logistics, and cloud services – to convert algorithms into revenue.
Why China’s robotics industry is outpacing fellow industrialised nations and how the momentum creates opportunities for the world
Open-source datasets and motion-control frameworks further reduce industry entry barriers, enabling faster commercialization. At the Hangzhou Embodied Intelligence Pilot Base, this ecosystem approach is being formalised. Li Xingteng, deputy general manager of the base, said organisers are establishing academic, industrial and technical committees to align researchers, founders and chief technologists.
From copycats to innovators: China braces for dominance as West turns into sitting ducks
Britain’s productivity growth is paltry; the cost of borrowing is too high; and voters are unhappy. In response, the budget, presented on November 26, 2025, by Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, should have been a moment of radicalism.
World’s wealthiest man Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay plan wins shareholder approval
The net value of those shares would be $878 billion: the package is structured to exclude the value of the stock on the day the board passed the proposal in early September. Musk could either pay that amount in cash or accept fewer shares to account for their original value.
