Xiaomi’s Lei Jun Tore Down His Own Car on Livestream After Two Fatal SU7 Crashes
Facing scrutiny after two fatal crashes involving Xiaomi's SU7, founder Lei Jun live-streamed a teardown of the company's YU7 SUV…
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Li Auto’s CEO Spent Four Hours Live-Streaming a Teardown of His Own SUV to Prove a Point
Facing four straight months of sales declines, Li Auto founder Li Xiang live-streamed a four-hour teardown of the next-generation L6…
XPeng’s He Xiaopeng Wants to Sell You a Flying Car and a Humanoid Robot — Not Just an EV
At a July 2026 Munich event, XPeng founder He Xiaopeng repositioned his EV company as a 'Physical AI' supplier, announcing…
NIO’s William Li Finally Delivers a Profit — After 11 Straight Years of Losses
NIO founder William Li posted the company's first-ever quarterly operating profit in early 2026, and is now telling employees full-year…
BYD’s Wang Chuanfu Tells Investors to Be Patient — Then Bets $13.8 Billion on Self-Driving Cars
With BYD's stock down 33% over the past year, founder and chairman Wang Chuanfu used the company's 2026 annual meeting…
Six Chinese AI Labs Accused of ‘Industrial-Scale’ Model Theft — Washington Says It Has the Numbers
A joint NSA-FBI-CISA advisory names six Chinese AI labs — including DeepSeek and Alibaba — in a formal accusation of…
BYD’s Home Market Is Shrinking Fast. Its Export Business Just Covered for It.
BYD's domestic China revenue fell 31% in the first half of 2026 and its home-market registrations dropped nearly 46%. Overseas…
Unitree Is About to Be the First Humanoid Robot Maker With a Real Stock Price. It’s Worth $33 Billion Less Than Figure AI
Unitree's IPO subscription opens August 10 on Shanghai's STAR Market at a roughly $5.9 billion valuation — profitable, revenue-generating, and…
Unitree Is About to Be the First Humanoid Robot Maker With a Real Stock Price. It’s Worth $33 Billion Less Than Figure AI
Unitree's IPO subscription opens August 10 on Shanghai's STAR Market at a roughly $5.9 billion valuation — profitable, revenue-generating, and…
A Free Chinese Model Matched GPT-5.5 on Dangerous Capabilities — and Refused None of the Risky Requests
A new SaferAI report found Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 is only months behind GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 on cyber and…