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How DeepSeek Became a Slacking Whale Girl
Inside the fandom where DeepSeek is a chubby whale maid, Claude needs saving, and burned-out workers see themselves.
Oct 29
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CT Zhao
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Weekly Dose of China Tech [10.26.2026]
China AI Export Control, Kimi K3.1 Launch, DeepSeek $15B Funding Round, China's Young AI Power Brokers + One More Thing
Oct 26
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Xu Yan
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China's Young AI Power Brokers
They seized influence through technical skill. Now they must use it to protect the freedom that produced it.
Oct 22
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CT Zhao
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Apple's Biggest iPhone Bet Runs Through China
Tim Cook's latest China trip points to Apple's effort to bring the iPhone Duo to China—a push that depends on the country's factories, regulators and…
Oct 21
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CT Zhao
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Weekly Dose of China Tech [10.19.2026]
DeepSeek Challenges Nvidia, China’s AI Spending Spree, Qwen Goes Agentic, CXMT Targets Server Memory + One More Thing
Oct 19
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Han Chen
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DeepSeek Is Trying to Make Nvidia Less Essential
DeepSeek’s work with Huawei is a bet that better software can make a second hardware platform practical—even before it catches up on the hardware…
Oct 16
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Han Chen
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Weekly Dose of China Tech [10.12.2026]
Huawei’s Brake-Test Controversy, Huawei's HarmonyOS Goes Global, Ascend vs. Nvidia, BYD Eyes Argentina, DeepSeek’s Hidden Weak Spot + One More Thing
Oct 12
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Han Chen
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Huawei Wants to Take HarmonyOS Global. But What Exactly Is It Exporting?
Huawei has built a viable operating-system ecosystem in China. Its next challenge is proving that the same model can work in a world that already runs…
Oct 11
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Han Chen
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Why a Failed Brake Test Became a National Fight Over Huawei
A failed Huawei EV brake test escalated into an online media frenzy on tech, safety, and censorship in China.
Oct 10
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September 2026
The AI Safety Problem Neither China nor America Wants to Solve
A Chinese coding assistant’s quiet data grab turns out to be a preview of a fight nobody wants to go first in.
Sep 29
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Han Chen
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Weekly Dose of China Tech [9.28.2026]
Huawei’s Lazarus Moment, DeepSeek’s $1B Run Rate, Alibaba’s 20GW AI Bet, YMTC vs. Micron, CATL Goes Local in Europe + One More Thing
Sep 29
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Han Chen
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Huawei’s Lazarus Moment
Six years after severe U.S. sanctions, Huawei engineered a path back by shifting to wearables, solar energy, telecom, and AI chips to rebuild overseas…
Sep 23
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CT Zhao
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