(China Daily) Chinese tech giant Baidu Inc reported on Wednesday that its revenues reached 32.5 billion yuan ($4.47 billion) in the first quarter, up 3 percent year-on-year, with profits from its core businesses rising to 7.63 billion yuan, marking a 48 percent year-on-year increase.

Robin Li, co-founder and CEO of Baidu, said the company's revenue from core businesses grew 7 percent year-on-year during the January-March period, driven by the accelerated momentum of AI Cloud, which surged 42 percent year-on-year.

"We also achieved a pivotal milestone in our robotaxi business, as Apollo Go expanded internationally by entering Dubai and Abu Dhabi, reinforcing our commitment to bringing safe, comfortable, and affordable autonomous ride-hailing services to global markets," Li said.

(China Daily) Huawei Technologies Co officially unveiled its personal computers powered by its self-developed operating system on Monday in Chengdu, Sichuan province, challenging Microsoft's Windows and Apple's macOS in the desk operating system sector.

For decades, the global PC operating system market has been dominated by Microsoft's Windows and Apple's macOS, while domestic alternatives have largely relied on Linux-based modifications.

(China Daily) Xiaomi Corp said on Monday that it will unveil its 3-nanometer XRing O1 chip for smartphones on Thursday, marking the company's revived ambitions to bolster its semiconductor prowess.

The new chip, a result of over four years of intensive research and development efforts, will position Xiaomi to compete directly with leading global chip designers, but it remains to be seen how the actual products will perform on handsets, experts said.

(China Daily) Chinese tech company Lenovo has outlined a bold vision for AI-driven intelligent agents poised to redefine human-machine collaboration, while addressing concerns over global tariff pressures and product pricing.

Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo, said AI is evolving from a tool into a "cognitive operating system" for individuals and enterprises.

"In the future, AI will handle the grind of productivity, while humans focus on creativity," Yang said.

(Xinhua) Chinese internet giant Tencent has vowed to ramp up all-round AI investments and further expand its overseas commitments, a company announcement revealed on Friday at the Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit held in the city of Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province.

In the first quarter of 2025, Tencent's R&D investment surged by 21 percent year on year to 18.9 billion yuan (about 2.63 billion U.S.

(Xinhua) China's artificial intelligence (AI) boom is fueling a fierce talent crunch, with tech companies -- from robotics pioneers to cloud giants -- scrambling to fill millions of roles amid soaring demand.

"We are critically short of people. All the positions are understaffed," Wang Xingxing, founder and CEO of Unitree Robotics, a leading humanoid robotics firm, said at a recent forum on innovation and entrepreneurship in Shanghai.

(China Daily) Meitu Inc, a Chinese tech company known for its popular image-editing app and content-sharing software, announced on Tuesday a strategic partnership with Alibaba Group's wholly-owned subsidiary Alibaba.com China Ltd, and received a $250 million investment

The two companies will begin cooperation across multiple fields such as e-commerce platforms, artificial intelligence technology and cloud computing.

(China Daily) Chinese NEV giant BYD has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with CAR, China's largest car rental platform, as the two companies deepen their partnership to accelerate the adoption of new energy vehicles in the country's fast-evolving mobility sector.

The agreement, signed on Monday at BYD's headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, outlines a wide-ranging collaboration centered on a major vehicle procurement plan for the 2025 summer vacation season.

(China Daily) Nasdaq-listed Pony.ai reported strong unaudited financial results for the first quarter of 2025 on Tuesday, buoyed by a surge in robotaxi revenues and progress on cost-efficient mass deployment.

Total revenue in the quarter rose 12 percent year-on-year to $14 million, underpinned by a 200 percent increase in robotaxi service volume and an eightfold jump in fare-charging revenue, said the Toyota-backed autonomous driving company.

(Xinhua) Google I/O 2025, the company's largest annual developer conference, kicked off on Tuesday in Mountain View, the US state of California, for a two-day event, featuring a series of product announcements spanning Google's entire portfolio.

One of the major highlights is Deep Think, a new "enhanced" reasoning mode for Google's flagship Gemini 2.5 Pro model.
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