Good morning. It’s Jeremy here, filling in for Andrew, who is now on paternity leave for a bit. So you’ll see a rotating cast of Fortune tech journalists writing this newsletter for a few weeks. Fortune Brainstorm Tech wrapped yesterday. Here were a few highlights from the final day of the conference: Tom Hale, the…
China has confirmed that a bipartisan group of lawmakers from the US House of Representatives will visit the country later this month for the first time in over six years. “China welcomes Representative Adam Smith, ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, to lead a delegation to visit China,” Liu Pengyu, spokesman for the…
Last week, a rumor that Donald Trump had died began trending on social media. It appears to have originated from a joke tweet by the writer John Ganz, but even before the news of Trump’s death had been officially debunked, I knew it was impossible. He will never die. Dying is for losers. Have you…
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Xiaohongshu, China’s lifestyle-content darling, is starting to look less like a TikTok cloneand more like a profit machine. The Shanghai-based company, known internationally as RedNote, has privately told investors it expects to triple profit this year to $3 billion, according to people briefed on the matter. That puts it…
An Australian woman on TikTok claimed that a group of Americans disrupted her relaxing day by being extremely noisy at a beach club. However, the footage she uploaded did not show chaos or “screaming Americans.” Instead, it mostly featured her and her friends laughing on their chairs while other voices blended into the background. The…
China is making progress in artificial intelligence “agentic frameworks”, the tools required to make AI agents, as the country’s tech giants begin to take on US players such as AutoGen and OpenAI Swarm. Tencent Holdings was the latest to join the fray after the Shenzhen-based company open-sourced its new Youtu-Agent agentic framework on Tuesday. Developed…
When Marc Guyon, a French national based in Hong Kong, decided to visit Shanghai in early August, the main attraction was not the city’s art deco architecture, but its driverless taxis and hotel delivery robots. “It’s super impressive – China looks futuristic,” he said. “It seems like all expats have the same reaction. Many of…
A Sydney couple have been left bailing water in their five-star Chinese hotel after they misunderstood the instructions for their ‘mini-pool’ and flooded the building. Graham Bernard, 49, and his wife Jodie booked out a suite in the Iseya Panoramic Hotel in Chongqing which offers 360 degree views of the ‘5D’ city. Along with the…
A solo traveller has revealed the amazing places she has visited that have ‘blown her mind’. Sarah, who goes by @vivjewelry on social media, shares her life backpacking around the world on social media, and . In a video, she describes some of the best places she has visited. None of her favourite destinations are…
Amid the buzz of a TikTok return for India, the ban, imposed five years ago, remains in full effect. Officials have also clarified that the app hasn’t been approved for Indian markets again. Several people in India claimed that they were able to access the TikTok website, prompting a clarification from the Centre.(Representational image) “Government…