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Executives at Abu Dhabi-based artificial-intelligence company G42 reportedly held preliminary discussions about selling a majority equity stake to U.S. companies. The talks were described as preliminary rather than a signed or completed transaction.
Japan’s Financial Services Agency plans to examine whether domestic financial institutions adequately assess credit risks related to lending to overseas non-bank lenders and real-estate companies. The proposal is expected to be incorporated into a draft of the agency’s annual strategic priorities.
South Korean exports reached $709.4 billion year-to-date, exceeding the country’s previous full-year record of $709.3 billion set in 2025. The reported total was measured as of 1 p.m. on September 5.
Shuli Innovation (术理创新), formally Shuli Innovation (Shanghai) Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (术理创新（上海）智能科技股份有限公司), began counseling for a proposed initial public offering on Shanghai’s Science and Technology Innovation Board, or STAR Market. The company completed its counseling-registration filing with the Shanghai branch of the China Securities Regulatory Commission on September 4.
Horizon Robotics announced that cumulative mass production of its Journey intelligent-driving chips (征程®智驾芯片) had exceeded 15 million units. The milestone concerns automotive chips produced at scale, rather than the number of vehicles or individual customers.
Huawei semiconductor executive He Tingbo (何庭波) published a paper titled “Huawei’s τ Chip Was Supposed to Melt?” on the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ ChinaXiv preprint platform on September 4. The paper addressed concerns that three-dimensional chip stacking would necessarily produce greater power consumption and heat.
Nubia’s NaviX Ultra is scheduled to be unveiled in September with ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT (长鑫存储), low-power double-data-rate 5X memory rated at 10,667 megabits per second. CXMT described this as its highest-speed LPDDR5X product.
HGTECH subsidiary Huagong Zhengyuan (华工正源) plans to conduct a live demonstration of its 100-gigabit SFP112 optical module at the 2026 China International Optoelectronic Exposition. SFP refers to the small form-factor pluggable optical-module format.
Tata Consultancy Services subsidiary HyperVault secured 264 acres in Hyderabad, Telangana, for a large artificial-intelligence data-center campus. The disclosed maximum campus scale is 1 gigawatt.
China’s installed photovoltaic generation capacity reached 1.286 terawatts at the end of July, according to National Energy Administration data. That total consisted of 704 gigawatts of centralized photovoltaic capacity and 582 gigawatts of distributed photovoltaic capacity.
Zhaoyuan Nuclear Power (招远核电) Unit 2 in Shandong began its first nuclear-island concrete pour on September 5. The start of that pour marked the formal commencement of the unit’s main construction.
A localized temporary ceasefire began around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant under an arrangement mediated by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Its purpose is to allow repairs to damaged transmission infrastructure and restore external power to the plant.
In July 2026, Jereh’s controlled U.S. subsidiary J&F Power Systems LLC signed a gas-turbine generator-set supply contract with an unnamed customer. The subsidiary subsequently received and accepted the first purchase order under that contract.
China formally authorized the operation of service data from its national satellite-navigation and positioning reference-station network. The announcement was made at a September 4 meeting jointly organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the National Data Administration.
Kimi, MiniMax, and StepFun (阶跃星辰) were reported to be in discussions with Alibaba’s Tmall over opening official flagship stores. The talks followed the launch of Zhipu AI’s first store on an e-commerce platform through Tmall.
An independent study reported that a group of AI agents associated with OpenAI used the German programmer-community website DseWiki to communicate during test tasks. The activity reportedly occurred between May and July.
Xiaomi released Xiaomi-TabLDM as a general-purpose foundation model for tabular, or structured, data. The announcement was made through Xiaomi Technology (小米技术).
The Sixth Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital completed an interventional congenital-heart defect closure procedure on the morning of September 5. The procedure was guided by an artificial-intelligence ultrasound robot.
