The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is seeking a new president with a fresh mindset and technological expertise, as incumbent Xiang Zhang will step down in 2028 after a decade in the role. An insider cl…
Researchers at China's National Police University, operating under the Ministry of Public Security, have developed an AI-driven detection framework that combines artificial intelligence with large lan…
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max on August 3 through its hosted API and QwenWork platform, with open weights promised for the following week. The mixture-of-experts model has 2.4 trillion total parameters…
South China Morning Post (SCMP) launched a comprehensive print and digital redesign on August 3, reflecting the changing role of printed newspapers in the age of artificial intelligence. The redesign …
Researchers at the People's Public Security University of China have built an AI system that identifies illicit Bitcoin transactions with 89.4% overall accuracy, outperforming existing detection tools…
Kioxia Holdings reported a 46-fold surge in profit attributable to owners of parent to ¥842.2 billion for the June quarter, with revenue rising to ¥1.767 trillion, but shares fell 18% on July 28 amid …
ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, now generates about $4bn annually from artificial intelligence, the largest figure any Chinese firm has publicly claimed, according to the South China Morning Pos…
BYD, the world's largest electric vehicle maker, plans to debut its first humanoid robots in August at its Di Space experience centres in China, intensifying its rivalry with Tesla's Optimus robot. Th…
Hong Kong's export surge, driven by global AI demand, will sustain growth and lift GDP beyond official forecasts, economists say. Billy Mak, an associate professor at Baptist University, said demand f…
Chinese AI developers may start charging cloud platforms commercial licensing fees to host their open-weight models, Goldman Sachs told the South China Morning Post, a shift that could alter the econo…
China's open-source AI models, including Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, are closing the gap with US rivals at a fraction of the cost, according to a South China Morning Post …
Black Lake CEO Zhou Yuxiang hires food delivery workers as salespeople to sell AI automation solutions to family-run factories in China, a strategy that has helped the company serve 35,000 factory cli…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) raised 57.9 billion yuan ($8.6 billion) in its Shanghai STAR Market debut on July 27, becoming Asia's largest IPO of 2026 and the biggest listing in STAR Market his…
China's government has become the dominant force in tech venture capital, with state-backed investors participating in over 140 AI deals in 2025, a 15-fold increase from fewer than 10 per year before …
China's AI weather warning system Mazu, which combines satellite data, forecasting models and local observations, is expanding across the Global South to help countries prepare for extreme weather eve…
China's State Administration for Market Regulation and National Standardization Administration published the seven-part GB/Z 185-2026 guidance series for AI-agent interconnection on May 22, 2026, cove…
Tencent Holdings Ltd. shares fell as much as 7.1% on July 22, their sharpest intraday drop since April 2025, as investors worried about slowing mobile gaming revenue and rotated toward companies with …
China's monthly car exports topped 1 million for the first time in June 2026, driven by a 27% rise in overall overseas shipments, while domestic sales slump as Beijing scales back subsidies, according…
Axiom Biosciences, a San Diego-based clinical-stage biotech, plans a Hong Kong IPO in 2027 targeting at least $200 million, followed by a U.S. secondary listing in 2029, citing deep biotechnology capi…
Chinese AI unicorn Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi K3 model, is closing a fundraising round at a US$30 billion valuation and plans a subsequent round as early as August, according to a source. The …