China’s universities are undertaking a massive reshuffling of their academic offerings, reports the South China Morning Post. The country is culling thousands of so-called obsolete degrees in favor of new, tech-focused programmes. Between 2021 and 2025, China’s higher education institutions revoked or suspended 12,200 undergraduate degree programmes while introducing 10,200 new ones, meaning that more than […]
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Chinese authorities have summoned representatives of US-based membership-only retailer Sam’s Club for a “formal accountability interview” in response to “frequent food safety issues”, reports the South China Morning Post. According to a notice from the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), the Walmart-owned supermarket chain was urged to “prioritize food safety, strictly fulfil social corporate responsibilities, […]
The Abu Dhabi government is fast-tracking its push to extensively tap into China’s technologies, from renewable energy and EVs to robotics, reports the South China Morning Post. This comes as it pursues a greener economy. Abdulla Humaid Al Jarwan, chairman of the Abu Dhabi department of energy, told the SCMP that his department was in talks with 22 Chinese […]
Nvidia has told Chinese clients that its new Vera central processors for AI data centers could be available as soon as August and that they can begin placing orders, reports Reuters citing three sources familiar with the matter. The outreach underscores how the world’s most valuable company is quickly pivoting to the new product to revive its rapidly […]
Chinese technology company ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX to purchase AI chips for inference work and is also considering a similar deal with Baidu, reports Reuters citing two sources familiar with the matter. If a deal is agreed, Iluvatar CoreX would become ByteDance’s third major domestic supplier of graphics processing units (GPUs) after Huawei […]