(China Daily) Nvidia has clarified that it is "simply leasing a new space for existing employees" in Shanghai, following a report that the US artificial intelligence chipmaker is working on a research and development center in the city.

According to a spokesperson, existing Nvidia employees need room to return to work after the COVID-19 pandemic. "The scope of work will remain unchanged," the Nvidia spokesperson said in a written reply to China Daily on Wednesday.

The Financial Times was the first to report Nvidia's plans to establish an R&D center in Shanghai, supporting the company's technical and compliance research.

(China Daily) Alibaba Group's e-commerce platform Taobao announced on Thursday that its free global delivery service will expand to 12 countries and regions across the globe, as the company is stepping up its globalization layout.

According to Taobao, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Australia, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia will be included in the initiative. It is the first time that Kazakhstan and Mongolia have been included in the free shipping zone.

(China Daily) The added value of core industries of China's digital economy is expected to account for more than 10 percent of GDP by the end of this year, as the country accelerates steps to advance its digital development, according to a 2025 action plan to build a Digital China.

(Xinhua) Google's Gemini AI app now has more than 400 million monthly active users, the company's CEO Sundar Pichai said Tuesday during a press briefing ahead of Google I/O 2025.

Pichai said that Google's AI overviews now reach more than 1.5 billion users every month. The company also announced during Google I/O 2025 that it's putting AI mode in front of more users, as Google tries to update Search with more conversational experiences powered by generative AI.

(Xinhua) A team of Chinese scientists has discovered an extremely rare pulsar that gets partially blocked by its companion star every few hours, like a cosmic game of hide-and-seek.

The findings, published in the latest issue of the journal Science, could help solve long-standing mysteries about how stars evolve in pairs.

(China Daily) China has ushered in a new era of cybersecurity with the world's first commercially ready cryptography system that integrates quantum key distribution and post-quantum cryptography, marking a groundbreaking leap in defending against next-generation quantum computing threats.

(China Daily) China will further push innovation in next-generation telecommunication and digital infrastructure, such as 6G wireless technology, as part of its broader efforts to nurture new quality productive forces and build a modern industrial system, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

(China Daily) China Mobile, the world's largest telecom carrier by mobile subscribers, has unveiled a family care initiative at a Beijing event, shaping how nearly 300 million household customers manage telecom services.

Zhang Dong, vice-president of China Mobile, said family members can pool voice minutes, data traffic, cloud storage, digital content and smart home management quotas to share among one another.

(Xinhua) The number of digital reading users in China reached 670 million in 2024, marking a 17.52 percent year-on-year increase, according to a report on digital reading released on Wednesday.

The report was released at a national reading conference that kicked off in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province, coinciding with the 30th World Book and Copyright Day on Wednesday.

(China Daily) The US government's export controls on artificial intelligence chips to China were "a failure", said Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang on Wednesday at the annual Computex event in Taipei.

Huang said, "All in all, the export control was a failure".

According to him, the fundamental assumptions that led to the AI diffusion rule in the beginning, in the first place, have been proven to be fundamentally flawed.
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