South China Morning Post - Tech

A Danish court has ordered the state to pay 80 million Danish kroner (US$12 million) in compensation to TDC NET, the country’s largest digital-infrastructure operator, after authorities forced it to strip Huawei equipment from its fibre network. The Eastern High Court in Copenhagen ruled on Wednesday that a 2023 order by the Centre for Cybersecurity directing TDC NET to remove H...

Alibaba Group Holding has slashed prices for its flagship Qwen AI models by up to 80 per cent on its Qoder agentic coding platform, offering an aggressive discount to hook global developers to compete with US and Chinese rivals like Anthropic and Zhipu AI. The e-commerce and cloud giant said on X on Tuesday that it was cutting the price of its flagship Qwen3.7-Max model by 80 pe...

China’s telecoms giants are pushing for “air-space-ground-sea” networks amid Beijing’s push to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure, as SpaceX’s market debut has ignited the industry’s focus beyond the Earth. At the opening of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai on Wednesday, telecommunications executives framed the next phase of infrastructure as one that needs to...

Morgan Stanley has again raised its forecast for China’s humanoid robot shipments this year, lifting its estimate to 50,000 units from 28,000 as commercial validation, policy support and supply-chain momentum accelerate adoption. The investment bank had already doubled its projection to 28,000 units in January. In a report published on Tuesday, it said the latest upgrade reflect...

China Telecom has named the winners of a multibillion-dollar high-performance server procurement programme, handing a major victory to domestic CPU chip companies like Huawei Technologies as state firms rapidly replace US technology with domestic hardware. The deal, which covers China Telecom’s needs for 2026 and 2027, called for 40,000 high-performance servers split into two pa...