When it comes to AI, Beijing is leading the pack. [China Daily]

Alibaba Kicks Off Spending Spree With $1 Billion for Cloud. [Caixin]

Xiaomi reportedly reorganizes the team to increase bet on mobile chips. [CnTechPost]

First HarmonyOS-powered refrigerator goes on sale. [CnTechPost]

Meituan said to plan 60,000 new hires this year to double its workforce. [CnTechPost]

Chinese auto association raises the NEV sales forecast to 2.4 million units this year. [CnEVPost]

Huawei expands alliance with game developers on cloud gaming as phone business suffers. [PingWest]

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Huawei Makes HarmonyOS Open Source to Boost It as an Android Alternative. [Caixin]

Huawei Ramps Up Investment in Chipmaking as U.S. Sanctions Bite. [Caixin]

OPPO’s new trademark application signals a further step in its car-building efforts. [CnEVPost]

Alibaba-Xinhua venture makes the news for video-hungry Chinese. [KrASIA]

Emerging Markets Will Drive Next Wave of Global 5G Smartphone Sales: Realme-Counterpoint White Paper. [Pandaily]

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Tencent Cloud Launches New Data Centers to Meet Global Ambition. [Caixin]

TikTok Retains Top Spot, But Will it Last Amid Global Backlash? [Caixin]

Meituan Chief Wang Xing Joins China’s Growing Ranks of Philanthropists. [Caixin]

Alibaba Cloud Emerges as Leading Provider of Financial Cloud Computing Services in China with over 18% Market Share: IDC Report. [China Banking News]

Data Protection the Most Urgent Priority for Chinese Finance: Sichuan Province Fintech Association. [China Banking News]

Autonomous Driving Startup Zongmu Technology Raises $190 Million from Investors Including Xiaomi, Qualcomm. [Pandaily]

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China’s gigantic multi-modal AI is no one-trick pony. [Engadget]

China’s Newest Computer Science Student Is a Computer. [Sixth Tone]

Online audio and video users surge to over 900m in China. [Ecns.cn]

OPPO’s new patent enables brainwave information transfer between users. [CnTechPost]

Apple adds 12 more Chinese mainland firms to its supplier list. [PingWest]

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China’s first home-made virtual student enrolled at Tsinghua University. [Ecns.cn]

Chinese regulator gives Tesla backing in response to user’s questions about single-pedal mode. [CnEVPost]

China Tesla rival Nio sees deliveries fall in May as chip shortage bites. [CNBC]

Chart: The U.S. Car Models Most Impacted By The Microchip Shortage. [Statista]

Huawei’s AI Computing Center in Wuhan Begins Operation, Powering Local Industries with Computing Infrastructure. [Synced]

Chinese Robot-Maker Rokae Raises Fresh Capital Amid Official Push for Intelligent Manufacturing. [Caixin]

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Chinese AI lab challenges Google, OpenAI with a model of 1.75 trillion parameters. [PingWest]

Ant Group releases OceanBase 3.0 database, open-sources 3 million lines of core code. [cnTechPost]

Apple has over 4.4 million registered developers in Greater China, up 76% from two years ago. [cnTechPost]

Auto chip shortage expected to ease as Renesas plant set to return to full capacity by mid-June. [cnEVPost]

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China to Build Data Center Clusters Nationwide to Plug Shortage. [Caixin]

VIDEO | KrASIA tries Baidu’s first commercial autonomous ride-hailing service in China. [KrASIA]

China’s 5G, Data Center Boom Poses Threats to Climate, Greenpeace Says. [Caixin]

Shanghai to Host 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference from 7–10 July. [China Banking News]

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Delivery robots to come to Beijing streets. [Technode]

Shenzhen to allow driverless cars on public roads. [cnEVPost]

Global automakers set up data facilities in China to meet compliance requirements. [cnEVPost]

Analysts explain why Li Auto ditches Mobileye in favor of a local self-driving chip. [cnEVPost]

Lenovo resists temptation as a group of Chinese firms jump on the car-making bandwagon. [cnEVPost]

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