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The Daily Review: 16 April 2026
Huawei Reclaims the Throne Market analysts and International Data Corporation [IDC] confirmed on April 15 that Huawei has secured the number one market share spot in China for Q1 2026, capturing 19.8...
Apr 16, 2026
The Daily Review: 15 April 2026
DeepSeek V4 Rumors Intensify Industry leaks suggest that DeepSeek is preparing to launch its V4 model in late April, featuring a massive 1-trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. No...
Apr 15, 2026
The Daily Review: 14 April 2026
The AI Gap Narrows as China Leads in Research Output According to the Stanford 2026 AI Index, the performance gap between top United States (US) models and Chinese competitors has shrunk to a mere 2....
Apr 14, 2026
The Daily Review: 13 April 2026
Today's CTR: The Great Decoupling Accelerates The mood in the Chinese technology sector is shifting from defensive adaptation to aggressive architectural independence. We are seeing a concert...
Apr 13, 2026
The Weekly Review: 6-12 April 2026
The week’s signal was clear: updates this week centered on systemic rollout, not isolated demos. The biggest themes were public-sector AI adoption, domestic model deployment, and infrastructure upgr...
Apr 12, 2026
The Daily Review: 11 April 2026
Today's CTR: The Chinese technology landscape is currently defined by a concerted push toward deep systemic integration and domestic self-reliance. From the classroom to the data center, Beijing is si...
Apr 11, 2026
The Daily Review: 10 April 2026
The current mood in the Chinese technology sector is one of tightening constraints and expanding utility. While regulators are moving aggressively to codify the boundaries of Artificial Intelligence (...
Apr 10, 2026
The Daily Review: 9 April 2026
DeepSeek "Expert Mode" Fuels V4 Rumors DeepSeek has updated its user interface to include a new "Expert Chatbot Mode" specifically designed for complex reasoning tasks. Industry observers...
Apr 9, 2026
The Daily Review: 8 April 2026
Zhipu AI Signals the End of the "Price War" Era. Zhipu AI has released GLM-5.1, claiming the model is the first open-source entry to outperform Claude 4.6 in software engineering benchmarks. Shi...
Apr 8, 2026
The Daily Review: 7 April 2026
Shanghai Hits a Domestic Milestone with "10,000-Card" GPU Cluster Shanghai Zhisuan Technology has successfully operationalized a massive computing cluster featuring over 10,000 graphics processin...
Apr 7, 2026