Hong Kong IPOs 2025: Market views, mega deals, emerging trends Hong Kong cemented its status as the world’s leading initial public offerings venue in 2025, marking a year of momentum, progress and transformation. By mid-December, the market had raised HKD274.6 billion (USD35.2 billion) from 106 new listings, with four of the world’s top 10 IPOs…
An engineer debugs robots at the factory of AgiBot, a leading robotics company specializing in embodied intelligence, on December 8, 2025 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Tang Yanjun/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images) Tang Yanjun | China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images Billionaire Elon Musk has put humanoid robots in the…
China is warning humanoid robot companies that there are too many of them, duplicating innovation AFP via Getty Images Earlier this year, a Peter Diamandis report found about 100 companies working on humanoid robots globally. A few short months later, there are 150 just in China. In fact, the humanoid robot hype is getting so…
Meanwhile, Chinese companies are also accelerating their push in the sector, with major players including automotive brands such as BYD, Xiaomi and Chery. The 2025 Morgan Stanley Humanoid 100 list includes 35 Chinese companies, and among the 22 companies capable of full-system robot manufacturing, nine are from China, demonstrating strong competitive potential. Source link
Visitors check out an Optimus humanoid exhibited by Tesla at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China Monday, July 28, 2025. Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Images Elon Musk‘s bid to become the world’s first trillionaire increasingly rests on a single proposition: that Tesla can evolve from an electric-vehicle company into a…
The European automotive sector is entering a new era—one where robots assemble cars, AI predicts failures before they happen, and smart factories set record efficiency benchmarks. According to Renub Research, the Europe Automotive Robotics market is forecasted to surge from US$ 2.95 billion in 2024 to US$ 7.37 billion by 2033, expanding at a strong…
Over 20 Chinese companies have earned a place on Time magazine’s “Best Inventions of 2025” list, with innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) recognised for the first time alongside advances in robotics and consumer electronics. This year’s edition – covering 300 innovations across 36 categories, the most ever – marks the first time Chinese advances in…
Nov 1, 2025 Investors are closely studying a draft of Beijing’s economic and social development plan for the next five years, according to the South China Morning Post. Over the past week, they have been examining the blueprint that emerged from a four-day Communist Party plenum concluding on October 23. During the plenum, party chief…
10/28/2025 – 09:42 PM Coupang is working to help advance America’s global leadership on AI, drive U.S. exports, and expand international commerce From 2022 through 2024, Coupang spent more than $3B to expand AI innovations and other advanced technologies in the APEC region SEATTLE–(BUSINESS…
When the Chinese government launched the “AI+” initiative in August, it was widely perceived as a new economic stimulus. However, observers may have underestimated Beijing’s true ambition. On October 10, senior officials and experts published a series of analyses in the official journal E-Government, offering the public its first comprehensive look at the initiative’s deeper…