China's government issued a voluntary code of conduct for smart glasses manufacturers, urging them to obtain explicit consent before recording and to include LED recording indicators. The guidelines a…
The US assured India that AI technology access would not be cut off after Anthropic abruptly banned its advanced models, a senior Indian official said. The assurance came at the 'Pax Silica' summit in…
Banks are racing to hire AI leadership as regulatory pressure and client demand drive adoption, but AWS executive Shaown Nandi warns success depends on implementation. Standard Chartered and HSBC have…
Hong Kong opens its first convenience store operated entirely by a single humanoid robot, named Xiao Gai, built by Beijing-based AI and robotics firm Galbot. The 24-hour pop-up store, located on the H…
Hong Kong residents are increasingly using prediction market platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi to bet on events ranging from politics to cryptocurrency, despite official warnings. A 25-year-old Fre…
Chinese AI developers are accelerating development of trillion-parameter foundation models to narrow the gap with US rivals, as Washington imposes export controls on leading US AI software. DeepSeek l…
Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2, an open-weights model under MIT license that scores 74.4% on FrontierSWE, beating OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and trailing Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 by one point at roughly a sixth o…
Christian Noyer, a founding vice-president of the European Central Bank, said Europe should deepen ties with China to finance AI and green industries and reduce dependence on US technology. Noyer argu…
China has revoked or suspended 12,200 undergraduate degree programs and added 10,200 new ones between 2021 and 2025, cutting arts, humanities, foreign languages and management while adding majors in A…
China revoked or suspended 12,200 undergraduate degree programs between 2021 and 2025 while adding 10,200 new ones, with cuts concentrated in arts, humanities, and management, and new programs focused…
JPMorgan's Alex Yao says China's AI competition has shifted from raw technical performance to delivering measurable business value, with major platforms like ByteDance introducing paid subscriptions f…
Huawei Technologies is evaluating the deployment of its newest Ascend AI chips in Latin America for its cloud and AI services, a senior executive confirmed. Mark Chen, president of Huawei Cloud Latin …
Chinese researchers led by Zhang Dong published a peer-reviewed paper on May 19 in Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica detailing the HG-STR algorithm, which enables fixed-wing drone swarms to loca…
Alipay and its parent Ant Group launched a full-stack AI payments infrastructure on May 26, 2026, introducing an AI Wallet for consumers and Token Pay for businesses to facilitate transactions in an a…