Z.ai has reported a sharp first-half revenue increase as its cloud and application-programming-interface business expands, providing a fresh look at how a Chinese foundation-model company is trying to convert usage into sales.
Beijing robotics company Galbot is launching its first outlets outside mainland China with three humanoid-operated convenience stores in Hong Kong. South China Morning Post reported on August 31 that the stores, following an opening ceremony, were scheduled to launch on September 1 in Hung Hom, Kai Tak, and Wan Chai.
Huatai Securities is extending artificial intelligence across investment research, investment banking, trading, wealth advice, compliance, risk management, and corporate decision-making. In its August 28 results release, shared through Media OutReach, the Chinese brokerage described an “ALL IN AI” strategy that treats AI as enterprise infrastructure rather than as a single customer-facing feature.
Chinese robot makers are targeting Europe’s lawn-care market as U.S. regulatory uncertainty threatens a major growth opportunity. Nikkei Asia reported on August 31 that Segway owner Ninebot, vacuum-cleaner makers including Roborock, and startups are preparing new robotic lawn-mower products for IFA Berlin, which begins September 4.
Shanghai Aether Heart Technology has completed a seed financing round worth tens of millions of yuan for its AI-agent infrastructure work. Shanghai Securities News reported on August 30 that the investors include Shanghai Angel Association, Pudong Venture Capital, Gaoxin Capital, and Angel Qingfen.
Tencent Cloud and Elastic have expanded their collaboration around a technology problem that sits behind many enterprise AI projects: how to retrieve reliable internal information for a model or agent.
China’s first national standard focused on the relationship between human and intelligent customer service took effect on September 1. The official National Standard Information Public Service Platform lists GB/T 47746-2026 as the national standard governing the coordination of live and intelligent customer-support channels, released on May 25 and effective from September 1.
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has set an explicit target for the businesses that turn AI tools into working industry deployments.
A new Chinese action plan places artificial intelligence inside the country’s special-education agenda for 2026 through 2030.
Reuters reported on August 31 that ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, has begun making HBM3E memory in small quantities. The report, which attributes the development to The Information and two people familiar with the matter, says Alibaba Group’s T-Head and Beijing-based Cambricon are testing the memory with their processors.
