China AI chipmaker MetaX will see about 14 million previously locked-up shares enter the market from Sept. 17, drawing attention to whether selling pressure will spread across Chinese AI semiconductor stocks. The market is wary after Moore Threads slid 20 percent after its lockup ended. MetaX shares have fallen more than 22 percent in the past week, though analysts say the expiry does not signal weakening fundamentals.

JD.com plans to introduce 3 million robots over the next five years to fully automate its nationwide logistics network. JD Logistics also outlined deploying 1 million driverless vehicles and 100,000 delivery drones, and presented its industrial Wolf robot series at an event in Beijing. Executives said the systems are designed to handle picking, sorting, transport and delivery with minimal human involvement. The company also plans to collect more than 10 million hours of operational data, expand R&D bases and build a computing cluster using 100,000 domestic chips.