Huawei’s car unit joins CATL’s 2,520-station battery swap network
Huawei’s car unit joins CATL’s 2,520-station battery swap network

Huawei’s smart car business is signing on to CATL’s battery swap network, giving the world’s largest battery maker another heavyweight partner for a technology most of the industry wrote off a decade ago.

Yinwang, the Huawei-controlled automotive un…

US orders civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek from their systems
US orders civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek from their systems

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered US civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their IT systems and stop buying them, under a 2018 supply chain security law. The order covers third-party tools built on DeepSeek’s models, …

Boot this: BYD Denza B8 driver gets booted, doesn’t care [video]
Boot this: BYD Denza B8 driver gets booted, doesn’t care [video]

The plug-in hybrid BYD Denza B8 didn’t set the sales charts on fire, but its high-tech suspension promised a smooth ride across just about any terrain, adjusting damping and ride height while independently controlling hydraulic pressure at each wheel. …

Accenture reportedly looks to sell its China business for up to $1.5B
Accenture reportedly looks to sell its China business for up to $1.5B

Accenture is exploring a sale of its Greater China business, in a deal that could value the unit at up to $1.5bn, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The consulting firm has hired JPMorgan to run a strategic review of the unit, according to the Fin…

Apple CEO John Ternus calls the memory chip shortage a crisis, TIME reports
Apple CEO John Ternus calls the memory chip shortage a crisis, TIME reports

Apple chief executive John Ternus told TIME that “all options should be on the table” on memory chips, after reports that Apple tested Chinese-made memory. Ternus took over as CEO on 1 September. He is on the cover of TIME’s 2026 Best Inventions issue,…

Microsoft disrupts Chinese-language phishing kits behind 1bn scam messages
Microsoft disrupts Chinese-language phishing kits behind 1bn scam messages

Microsoft and Health-ISAC have seized and redirected domains behind three Chinese-language cybercrime services, YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, Microsoft said on Wednesday. Since January 2026, the three services enabled more than 1bn malicious messages …

China’s CXMT swings to a nearly $20B profit as memory prices soar
China’s CXMT swings to a nearly $20B profit as memory prices soar

Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT expects a net profit of 131B to 132.5B yuan ($19.6B to $19.8B) for January to September, compared with a 5.3B yuan loss a year earlier. Revenue jumped to 265B to 270B yuan as AI demand caused memory shortages. Its chairman…

Qualcomm’s CEO says AI companies want phones running 100-billion-parameter models by 2028
Qualcomm’s CEO says AI companies want phones running 100-billion-parameter models by 2028

“Some of the companies at the forefront of AI are telling Qualcomm, ‘By 2028, I need to make sure that I have the ability to run at least a hundred billion parameter model into a phone.’” Qualcomm chief executive Cristiano Amon said this on Sources, Al…

China proposes export controls on its advanced AI models and chip designs
China proposes export controls on its advanced AI models and chip designs

China’s commerce and science ministries proposed adding 23 AI technologies, including large models, agents, chip designs, and computing clusters, to the country’s export control list. Open-source tech is exempt and overseas users can still access model…

Researchers trace AI agents that probed Alibaba’s Amap to Tencent
Researchers trace AI agents that probed Alibaba’s Amap to Tencent

A fleet of AI agents running on Tencent Cloud made more than 2,600 attempts to pull data from Amap, Alibaba’s map service, between 28 September and 8 October. That is the main finding of a full report published on 14 October by independent researchers …