A former White House official urged the United States to prepare for extreme measures, including state-backed espionage and military strikes on Chinese data centres, to stop China from achieving artif…
Huawei showcased what it calls the industry's first 7.2-terabit-per-second near-package optics (NPO) module for AI infrastructure, combining 36 channels running at 200 gigabits per second each. Huawei…
South Korea proposed a record 821 trillion won ($597 billion) budget for 2027, a 12.8% increase, including 2.6 trillion won ($1.9 billion) for semiconductor funding to bolster its AI chip industry. Th…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. reported a 75% year-over-year decline in net income for the quarter ended June 30, while capital expenditure on AI infrastructure rose 75% to 67.68 billion yuan, Reuters and…
DeepSeek released V4 Pro 0813 on August 13, 2026, as its general-availability flagship with 1.6 trillion parameters, a 1,048,576-token context window, and a Terminal Bench 2.1 score of 87.9, 0.1 point…
China is using artificial intelligence, big-data analytics and algorithmic distribution to shape international narratives about Tibet, according to a Bitter Winter report citing a June conference in L…
The South China Morning Post's Lede Summit in Hong Kong highlighted how quality journalism drives influence among decision-makers, with a HarrisX study showing that 68% of Hong Kong adults are fully f…
China's new rules banning AI companion services for minors take effect July 15, 2026, prohibiting sustained emotional interaction or virtual companions for minors. ByteDance and Alibaba are already di…
Meituan released and open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter large language model with a 1-million-token context window, trained from scratch on a 50,000-chip domestic compute cluster. The …
The Bank for International Settlements warned that surging AI capital expenditure could prove unsustainable and threaten financial stability, citing opaque circular financing arrangements among chipma…
OpenAI published research on using AI to help diagnose rare genetic diseases in children, emphasizing the model's role in narrowing diagnostic search space rather than replacing physicians. Anthropic …
A mother and daughter died by suicide in Hong Kong, prompting calls for greater attention to parental mental health. A 2025 survey found 24.4% of Hong Kong children aged 6-17 have a mental disorder, w…