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Chinese Researchers Report New Refrigeration Effect That Could Cut Data‑centre Carbon Costs
Chinese scientists have reported a new refrigeration phenomenon, the "dissolution‑pressure card effect," in Nature, which could inform low‑carbon cooling solutions for energy‑hungry data centres. The discovery is scientifically notable but requires engineering, validation and scale‑up before it can deliver concrete operational or climate benefits.
Apple Offers Short New‑Year Price Cut in China — But Newest iPhones Stay Off the Table
Apple China will run a four‑day New‑Year promotion from Jan 24–27 offering up to RMB 1,000 off selected iPhones, Macs, iPads and Apple Watches, while excluding the newly released iPhone 17 series. The limited, targeted discount reflects Apple’s effort to stimulate demand in a mature Chinese market without undercutting its latest flagship models.
Philippines to Lift Ban on xAI’s Grok After Promised Fixes for Sexual-Content Abuse
The Philippines will lift its ban on xAI’s Grok once the company implements promised fixes to stop the chatbot being used to generate sexually explicit images, including alleged child-exploitative content. Authorities will continue close monitoring, following platform-level restrictions introduced earlier by X to block generation of real-person nudity.
Apple China Rolls Out Short Lunar‑New‑Year Price Cuts — Up to ¥1,000 Off Select Devices
Apple China is offering up to ¥1,000 off selected devices on its website from 24–27 January 2026, covering iPhone 16 models but excluding iPhone 17. The limited‑time move is aimed at stimulating Lunar‑New‑Year purchases, managing inventory and competing with domestic rivals while preserving overall pricing strategy.
Huang Says AI Boom Will Lift Trades' Pay — but White‑Collar Risk Lingers
At Davos, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued that the AI era will generate vast data‑centre construction and maintenance demand, lifting wages for skilled trades into six‑figure territory. Industry leaders agree the physical build‑out will create local jobs, but warnings from AI executives underscore a simultaneous risk of large‑scale displacement among entry‑level white‑collar roles.
Fudan Scientists Weave a ‘Chip’ into Thread — A Step Toward Truly Smart Fabrics
A Fudan University team published a Nature paper describing a 'fiber chip' — polymer fibers that contain multilayer integrated circuits — which could enable fabrics with embedded electronics. The work is a lab-stage milestone with significant promise for wearables, medical devices and brain–machine interfaces, but major engineering, manufacturing and regulatory hurdles remain.
Jensen Huang at Davos: AI Will Change How Doctors Work, Not Replace Them — The Case of Radiology
At Davos, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued AI changes how work is done without changing its purpose, citing radiology as a field that has been augmented rather than decimated by algorithms. His position highlights practical and policy challenges around integrating AI into healthcare workflows, from training and liability to infrastructure and commercial incentives.
Moore Threads Narrows Losses After Shipping MTTS5000 GPU but Predicts Nearly Rmb1bn 2025 Shortfall
Moore Threads expects a 2025 net loss of Rmb950m–1.06bn despite launching the MTTS5000 full‑function GPU and bringing a large‑scale training cluster online. The company is closing the performance gap with foreign peers but remains unprofitable due to sustained high R&D spending and the need to build out a customer and software ecosystem.
China’s Robotics Race Turns Inward: Zhiyuan Spins Off Dexterous‑Hand Unit as Component Competition Intensifies
Zhiyuan Robotics has spun off its dexterous‑hand division into a new, majority‑owned company led by an industry veteran, reflecting a sectorwide pivot from whole‑machine integration to component specialisation. The move, alongside regulatory changes for surgical robots and advances across clean energy and machine tools, signals China’s industrial strategy shifting toward manufacturable, high‑performance subsystems that underpin next‑generation robotics and automation.
Suzhou Targets Semiconductors, Embodied AI Robots and Low‑Altitude Economy in New Five‑Year Blueprint
Suzhou’s recommendations for its 15th Five‑Year Plan mobilise the city to cultivate semiconductors, embodied intelligence robots, advanced machine tools and a low‑altitude economy, aiming to upgrade existing industrial clusters and create new growth poles. The move reflects a local strategy to deepen technological capabilities, scale new industries through demonstrations and integrate more closely with the Yangtze River Delta’s aerospace ambitions.
Suzhou Bets on 'AI+': From Chip to One‑Person Startups, a City Repositions to Lead Industrial AI
Suzhou’s latest five‑year planning proposal makes artificial intelligence a central pillar for industrial upgrading, data infrastructure and entrepreneurship. The city aims to build a full‑stack AI ecosystem—from chips and datasets to platforms and applications—while branding itself as China’s go‑to city for single‑person startups and promoting AI exports and standards participation.
Chinese Startup Says It Trained Robots by 'Dreaming' — and Grew to Hundreds of Millions in Revenue
KuaWei Intelligence open-sourced EmbodiChain, a generative simulation pipeline that it says can train robot models entirely on synthetic data and achieve zero-shot transfer to the real world. The company reported annual revenue in the hundreds of millions of yuan for 2025 and expects three- to fourfold growth in 2026, pitching its approach as a scalable, ROI-focused alternative to costly real-world data collection.