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China's Xiaohongshu has an uphill climb in a saturated market as it hires in the U.S. and launches an e-commerce portal for overseas markets.

Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu pledge millions and race to release new models before the holiday—fearing a new "DeepSeek shock" might steal the spotlight.

Chinese hyperscalers are selling special server packages to attract early adopters eager to test the latest AI agent–now known as OpenClaw.

ByteDance says a group of investors led by Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX will set up a U.S.-focused TikTok to avoid a federal ban.

In her new book, Every Screen on the Planet: The War Over TikTok, journalist Emily Baker-White charts the Chinese app’s rise to becoming a global juggernaut. Here is an excerpt on the company’s courtship of the Gulf nations ahead of a deal on its U.S. operations.

Government support and tech companies’ drive for profit fuel a rush to integrate AI tools, from robot tutors to chatbots, in education and caretaking.

A year after merging with local giant Tokopedia, TikTok’s business model is alienating sellers, forcing many to join rival platforms.

Content moderators say they’re exposed to graphic violence, psychological trauma, and union-busting tactics, and now a larger movement is brewing.

A new wave of startups promise to automate everyday tasks — from app development to travel planning — better than chatbots.

To speed up delivery and dodge a crackdown on shipments from China, e-commerce companies are turning to so-called “family warehouses.”

Rest of World spoke to more than a dozen employees who said that TikTok remains answerable to ByteDance rather than its international leadership.

The U.S. clampdown on Chinese-owned companies won't end here.