Despite his immense fortune, Zhong Shanshan is known for maintaining a low public profile, earning him the title ‘Lone Wolf’.

Tharin Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME, interested in how AI and other digital technologies are changing us. He is ...

A simple handshake between President Xi Jinping and once-shunned entrepreneur Jack Ma sent Chinese tech stocks booming in ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer Duncan Clark about the return of Jack Ma, founder of online Chinese retailer Alibaba. The tech exec had gone quiet after comments critical of China in 2020.

As Chinese leaders meet in Beijing, they are striking a confident posture despite serious challenges to the economy and ...

Lucy Peng, one of the original 18 cofounders of Alibaba Group, is one of the wealthiest female tech founders in China. The ...

Beijing increasingly views cutting-edge technology through a national-interest lens, putting executives on a tighter leash.

Chinese e-commerce and tech giant Alibaba on Thursday unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) model, which it claims can rival DeepSeek to solve complex problems, but is better because it uses far ...

Alibaba says its newest AI model announced on Thursday morning, called QwQ-32B, has a “comparable performance” to DeepSeek while also requiring far less data to run. Shares in the e-commerce ...

Jack Ma's comments about a market economies falling behind planned economies is becoming a reality for China, with AI driving ...

Jack Ma, a cofounder of Chinese e-commerce giant ... That came after he had criticized China’s regulators and financial systems in a speech in Shanghai. Ma kept a low profile for several years ...

A simple handshake between President Xi Jinping and once-shunned entrepreneur Jack Ma sent Chinese tech stocks booming in recent weeks as it was interpreted as the latest sign the sector is being ...