Sony will advance its goal of carbon neutrality 10 years to 2040.

Survival Rules for Turbulent Times: A Compilation of the 20 Most Unmissable Core Insights from the 2026 Tsinghua PBCSF Forum

A dialogue between Zhu Min, former Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China and former Vice Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; Michael Spence, 2001 Nobel Prize winner in Economics and Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business; and Masaaki Shirakawa, former Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the 2026 Tsinghua PBCSF Global Finance Forum.

Ecosia Shifts AI Search Toward Open-Weight Models, Including Chinese LLMs

Ecosia, the Berlin-based search engine, is shifting more of its AI services toward open-weight models, including Alibaba’s Qwen, Z.ai’s GLM and Moonshot AI’s Kimi, through German AI platform Melious. Founder and CEO Christian Kroll told Politico that the change had roughly halved costs while improving quality and performance. The move shows how Chinese-developed models are entering Western products through European hosting and infrastructure.

Unpacking China | Key Chinese Firms to Watch This Week （4/10/2026-10/10/2026）

Amid fast-paced changes that fill the business community with excitement, angst and trepidation, EqualOcean will publish a series of roundup articles to document the major events related to Chinese companies going global every week.

Manus Parent Butterfly Effect Raises More Than $500 Million After Meta Deal Unwind

Butterfly Effect, the China-founded company behind AI agent Manus, has completed a funding round of more than US$500 million, the company announced on October 8. Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the round, with existing investors Tencent, HSG and ZhenFund also participating. The company did not disclose its valuation or how it plans to use the proceeds.

Country Garden Announces H1 2021 Financial Results

During the six months through June, the company generated CNY 234.9 billion in revenue, with a year-on-year increase of 27%.