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Alibaba joins forces with BMW to work on AI tech for cars in China

The partnership demonstrates Alibaba’s increased focus on AI, while BMW is also seeking to develop competitive products for the Chinese market.

26/03/2025

Business

Alibaba Group announces multi-billion dollar AI and cloud investment

Alibaba Group has highlighted that it has been focusing more on these two sectors lately, with plans to integrate artificial intelligence across several of its divisions such as e-commerce and consumer applications.

24/02/2025

Business

China's Alibaba sees revenue surge on back of AI and e-commerce

Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holding posted its fastest revenue growth in more than a year, beating analyst expectations as it capitalises on the artificial intelligence boom in China.

21/02/2025

Business

AI showdown! Alibaba claims its new model beats DeepSeek and ChatGPT

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba released a new artificial intelligence model on Wednesday and claims it outperforms its rival DeepSeek.

29/01/2025

Tech News

New GDPR complaints against Chinese Big Tech question use of European citizens' data

Online privacy NGO noyb has filed GDPR complaints against TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat and Xiaomi for illegal transfer of Europeans’ data to China.

17/01/2025

Business

David Beckham becomes AliExpress ambassador as firm faces EU probe

Chinese giant Alibaba, which owns the low-cost marketplace AliExpress, seeks to boost sales in the face of growing competition from Temu and Shein.

27/05/2024

Tech News

AliExpress probed under DSA, LinkedIn gets request for information

The commission already started two formal investigations under the EU’s platform rules.

14/03/2024

Health news

EU asks Chinese online sales site for information on fake medicines

The EU’s executive has sent a request for information from the Chinese site as part of its investigatory powers under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

06/11/2023

Tech News

From Musk to Microsoft, what are the latest AI developments this week?

It’s been a busy week for AI with a summit in the UK and multiple companies claiming their AI model is the best.

03/11/2023

Tech News

China’s Alibaba upgrades its AI model to challenge Amazon, Microsoft

Alibaba upgrades AI model with the aim of being “the most open cloud in the era of AI.”

31/10/2023

Business

Belgium monitoring China's Alibaba over spying concerns

Belgium's security service says the Chinese company's logistics arm in Liège is causing suspicion over its use of private information.

05/10/2023

Work

China's Amazon says delivery bots are the future. Here's why

Here are four charts that explain why Alibaba is investing in autonomous delivery robots, and why the company claims they're the future

27/08/2021

China

China fines internet giant Alibaba for 'abusing its dominant position'

The Alibaba Group, the world's biggest e-commerce company, was fined €2.3 billion by Chinese regulators on Saturday for anti-competitive tactics.

10/04/2021

China

China's Singles' Day shatters shopping records

China's Singles' Day shatters shopping records

11/11/2018