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Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Tencent are launching new models and spending millions on “red envelope” gifts to woo users ahead of the Lunar New Year (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 10, 2026

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Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean and Alibaba Cloud add support for OpenClaw, giving users access to AI agent service; many OpenClaw users run it on a Mac mini (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 4, 2026

Simon Sharwood / The register: Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean and Alibaba Cloud add support for OpenClaw, giving users access to AI…

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A look at Chinese food delivery giant Meituan’s subsidy war with Alibaba and JD.com, which led Meituan to a big third-quarter loss and an internal debate over global expansion (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 27, 2025

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Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on visual tasks and has 100% accuracy on "a needle in a haystack" tests for 30 minute videos (Jonathan Kemper/The Decoder)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 30, 2025

Jonathan Kemper / The decoder: Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL Beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on Visual Tasks and Has…

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Meituan reports third-quarter revenue up 2% to $13.4 billion and adjusted net loss of $2.3 billion, worse than estimate of $1.9 billion, its first loss since 2022, amid price war with JD and Alibaba (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 28, 2025

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In an October 7 letter, the Pentagon informed lawmakers that Alibaba, Baidu and BYD should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 26, 2025

Antoine Capaccio / Bloomberg: In an October 7 letter, the Pentagon informed lawmakers that Alibaba, Baidu and BYD should be…

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Sources: China offers to cut data center electricity bills by up to 50% to Alibaba and others if they use local chips like Huawei’s rather than foreign chips like Nvidia’s (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 4, 2025

Financial Times: Sources: China is offering to cut data center electricity bills by up to 50% to Alibaba and others…

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Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it says reduced the number of Nvidia H20s required when processing dozens of LLMs with up to 72 B parameters by 82% (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 20, 2025

Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it says reduces the number…

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Chinese state media: Alibaba obtained China Unicom as a major customer for its AI chips; Previous reports have said that Alibaba provided tens of thousands of fries (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 17, 2025

Bloomberg:: Chinese state media: Alibaba obtained China Unicom as a major customer for its AI chips; Previous reports said Alibaba…

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Aisphere based in Beijing, the startup behind the video generator Ai Pixverse, has collected a B series of $ 60 million led by Alibaba, and says that Pixverse is 100 m and more users worldwide (Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 13, 2025

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Reliable Robotics, which develops autonomous aircraft systems for cargo flights, raised $160 million led by Nimble Partners, bringing its valuation to ~$1 billion (Cailley LaPara/Bloomberg)

How opposition to data centers, over concerns such as electricity demand, pollution and water needs, became a voting issue for many in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections (NPR)

OpenAI enables cost-per-click ads in ChatGPT, setting bids between $3 and $5 per click, in addition to CPMs (Digiday)

Tim Cook has had an extraordinary run and impeccable timing in stepping down, with Apple in a better position than ever as AI becomes its next big test (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Longtime colleagues say John Ternus will bring back the decisiveness of the Jobs era, moving away from the Cook era where decisions were made collectively by top executives (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Browsing: Alibaba

Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Tencent are launching new models and spending millions on “red envelope” gifts to woo users ahead of the Lunar New Year (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)

Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean and Alibaba Cloud add support for OpenClaw, giving users access to AI agent service; many OpenClaw users run it on a Mac mini (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

A look at Chinese food delivery giant Meituan’s subsidy war with Alibaba and JD.com, which led Meituan to a big third-quarter loss and an internal debate over global expansion (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on visual tasks and has 100% accuracy on "a needle in a haystack" tests for 30 minute videos (Jonathan Kemper/The Decoder)

Meituan reports third-quarter revenue up 2% to $13.4 billion and adjusted net loss of $2.3 billion, worse than estimate of $1.9 billion, its first loss since 2022, amid price war with JD and Alibaba (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

In an October 7 letter, the Pentagon informed lawmakers that Alibaba, Baidu and BYD should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)

Sources: China offers to cut data center electricity bills by up to 50% to Alibaba and others if they use local chips like Huawei’s rather than foreign chips like Nvidia’s (Financial Times)

Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it says reduced the number of Nvidia H20s required when processing dozens of LLMs with up to 72 B parameters by 82% (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)

Chinese state media: Alibaba obtained China Unicom as a major customer for its AI chips; Previous reports have said that Alibaba provided tens of thousands of fries (Bloomberg)

Aisphere based in Beijing, the startup behind the video generator Ai Pixverse, has collected a B series of $ 60 million led by Alibaba, and says that Pixverse is 100 m and more users worldwide (Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post)