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The CXMT Shock: A $489 Billion Chinese Chip IPO Just Rewrote the Memory Market

ChangXin Memory Technologies surged 466% on its Shanghai debut, overtook ICBC as China's most valuable listed company, and sent shockwaves through Nvidia, Micron, and SK Hynix.

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The CXMT Shock: A $489 Billion Chinese Chip IPO Just Rewrote the Memory Market

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Infra · 2026-07-30

The CXMT Shock: A $489 Billion Chinese Chip IPO Just Rewrote the Memory Market

ChangXin Memory Technologies surged 466% on its Shanghai debut, overtook ICBC as China's most valuable listed company, and sent shockwaves through Nvidia, Micron, and SK Hynix.

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In China, People Are Renting Out Their Faces to AI — and the Price Starts at $15

A new marketplace lets ordinary Chinese citizens license their likeness for AI-generated microdramas. It is part side hustle, part legal experiment, and part warning about the future of digital identity.

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Delhi High Court Hands OpenAI a Win — But India's AI Copyright War Is Just Getting Started

A Delhi court says training ChatGPT on Indian news articles is 'fair dealing' — for now. The ruling could decide how the Global South regulates AI.

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DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng: Low Profile, High Ambition — Restraint as Strategy

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek prioritizes AGI over profit through open-source models, ten-month break-even pricing, and staying out of the spotlight — a deliberate countermove to Western hype cycles.

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Tencent, ByteDance, and Geely are recruiting teenagers through camps, research programs, and guaranteed job pipelines — before they even graduate.

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