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Two Spring Festivals, One Industry: How China’s Tech Giants Turned AI into a Holiday Battle for National Reach
China’s AI competition has shifted from model development to a consumer battleground during two consecutive Lunar New Year campaigns. Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent and Baidu used subsidies, embedded assistants and viral features to fight for national traffic, while smaller firms pursue agent‑style products that combine multiple models. The outcome will reshape who controls mass AI touchpoints in China, narrow the US–China model gap and raise barriers for smaller players unless they adopt alternative, interoperable strategies.
China's Highway EV Chargers Coped with a Surge During Spring Festival, Signalling Faster Long‑Distance Electrification
China's monitored highway charging network recorded 1.4099 million sessions and an average daily delivery of about 11.8 GWh during the first three days of the Spring Festival, up 63% year‑on‑year. The National Energy Administration reported stable operation and said it will step up monitoring ahead of the return‑trip peak.
China's Highway EV Charging Surges Over Lunar New Year, Infrastructure Holds Up — but Return Peak Looms
China logged 1.41 million highway EV charging sessions in the first three days of the Lunar New Year, with daily charging of 11.8 million kWh — up 63% year-on-year. Authorities report stable operations and plan intensified monitoring for the holiday return peak, underscoring rapid EV adoption and the need for grid and charging-network upgrades.
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Teases “Never‑Seen” Chips at GTC — A Shot Across the AI Infrastructure Bow
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced that GTC 2026 will unveil “never‑seen” chips, signalling an aggressive push in AI infrastructure. The declaration underlines Nvidia’s central role in the AI compute market and raises questions about technological novelty, supply‑chain constraints and geopolitical implications.
Fei‑Fei Li’s World Labs Raises $1bn to Advance 3D ‘World Model’ AI as Chipmakers and Autodesk Join the Bet
World Labs, founded by AI pioneer Fei‑Fei Li, raised $1 billion in a round that included Autodesk ($200m), Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia and AMD. The funding aims to accelerate the company’s work on 3D “world models,” exemplified by its Marble product, to advance robotics, scientific discovery and 3D content applications.
Cloud Giants Poised to Reap Billions as Anthropic Bets Big on External Infrastructure
Anthropic projects at least $80 billion in cloud spending through 2029 and expects revenue‑share payouts to cloud providers to rise steeply, making AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure significant beneficiaries of its commercial roll‑out. The forecast highlights the capital intensity of large models and signals that cloud infrastructure — not just algorithms — will determine who captures AI’s economic value.
Nvidia Promises Unseen “New Chips” at GTC — A Fresh Leap in the AI Infrastructure Arms Race
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced that the company will unveil multiple unprecedented chips at GTC 2026, positioning the firm to push the next wave of AI infrastructure innovation. The reveal matters for cloud providers, chip rivals and national tech strategies because advances will affect performance, supply chains and geopolitical access to high‑end compute.
Google's Gemini Adds Lyria 3: AI That Turns a Sentence or Photo Into a 30‑Second Song
Google has added Lyria 3, a music generation model, to its Gemini app enabling 30‑second songs from text or images and integrating with YouTube Shorts. The move raises competitive pressures on streaming platforms, offers new tools for creators, and revives questions about copyright, attribution and monetization of AI‑generated music.
Tencent’s “Yuanbao” Reports 50m Daily Users, 114m Monthly — A Fresh Surge in China’s Attention Market
Tencent announced that Yuanbao has exceeded 50 million daily active users and 114 million monthly active users, reporting a strong engagement ratio. While the figures signal notable audience scale, their commercial significance hinges on monetisation, user composition, and regulatory constraints.
Uber Pours $100m+ into Fast-Charging Hubs as It Prepares for an Electric, Autonomous Fleet
Uber will invest over $100 million to build DC fast-charging hubs for autonomous electric vehicles at its operations bases and along key city routes. The move is intended to reduce vehicle downtime and support a future scale-up of electric, autonomous ride-hailing, but it faces logistical, regulatory and grid-infrastructure challenges.
Indian University Expelled from AI Summit After Passing Off Chinese Robot Dog as ‘Home‑grown’
A Galgotias University professor presented a Chinese‑made quadruped robot as an in‑house development at India’s AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, prompting social‑media exposure and the university’s removal from the event. The episode highlights tensions over claims of indigenous technology, event vetting failures, and the political optics of India’s bid to project technological self‑reliance.
Chinese AI Chipmaker Taichu Adapts GLM‑5.0 and Qwen3.5 to Its Homegrown T100 Accelerator
Taichu (Wuxi) Electronics has completed deep adaptation of GLM‑5.0, Alibaba’s Qwen3.5 and DeepSeek‑OCR‑2 to its in‑house T100 accelerator, enabling these open models to run efficiently on domestic hardware. The work advances China’s effort to build a full AI software‑hardware stack and reduce reliance on foreign GPUs, though performance parity with global leaders remains an open question.