TSMC and Sony team up, China's AI stocks swing

August 13, 2026 16:39 JSTHello everyone, it's Cissy from Hong Kong, your #techAsia host this week. It's been seriously hot here recently. On Sunday, the temperature downtown hit 36.9 C, making it the hottest day Hong Kong has recorded since 1884. The heat was partly blamed on Typhoon Dolphin trapping warm air over the city. But honestly, I didn't find it that horrible when I went out in the evening for a quick hike. There was a nice breeze, so it actually felt pretty pleasant.While the rising temperatures have been hard to ignore, so has the sense that China's technology race is heating up at the same time, particularly in hardware.One of the clearest examples came from the country's humanoid-robot sector. Unitree, China's highest-profile maker of such robots, has drawn extraordinary retai