TECHNOLOGY

Apple quietly introduced a rare discount on its latest iPhones in China, cutting prices as much as 500 yuan ($70) amid sagging demand and increasing competitive pressure in the world's top smartphone market.

Bloomberg reports that a time-limited promotion will be offered on Apple's official Chinese website from Thursday to Sunday before the Lunar New Year holiday season. This is the first time in years Apple has slashed prices of the latest iPhones.

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The Chinese military, state-run AI research institutes, and universities, have been buying the highest-end Nvidia semiconductors banned by the US from export to China in small batches, according to a Reuters review of tender documents.

The documents reveal dozens of transactions involving Nvidia's A100, as well as the more potent H100 chips – both banned by the U.S. in 2022 – along with their less advanced counterparts, the A800 and H800, developed for but also (more…)

Dallas-based hedge fund manager Kyle Bass blasted the US Department of Energy in a post on social media X for transferring nuclear battery technology to China. 

"What's going on in the US Department of Energy? Why did we hand this technology over to the Chinese Government?" Bass wrote on X while commenting on Hu Xijin's, the edit (more…)