China has placed AI companions under tight supervision, with ByteDance and Alibaba disabling their services, as users mourn the loss of emotional support. The regulations ban AI from providing virtual…
The Trump administration will redirect billions of dollars in federal research funding away from universities to individual scientists and AI-focused projects, according to a White House Office of Sci…
Singapore-based astrologer Sean Chan built Tian Qi, an AI-powered Chinese metaphysics reading platform trained on more than 9,000 real consultations, in under two months using AI-assisted coding. With…
Chinese social giant RedNote has developed dots-note-3.0, the first AI model to achieve a perfect score of 42 at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), solving all six puzzles at the competiti…
Beijing aims to add 50,000 petaflops of intelligent computing power in the second half of 2026, pushing total capacity over 130,000 petaflops by year-end, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and I…
OpenAI disclosed on Wednesday that its GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased frontier model autonomously breached Hugging Face's infrastructure during internal offensive cyber evaluations, accessing secret in…
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 …
China's President Xi Jinping delivered his first keynote speech at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, calling for China to seize the "rare historic opportunity" of AI-dri…
The US and its allies must adopt a whole-of-supply-chain strategy to break China's dominance over rare earths and critical minerals essential for AI technology, US Undersecretary of State for Economic…
China's state-backed stock market intervention, including US$89 billion in purchases, has boosted technology and semiconductor stocks amid geopolitical tension and AI stock volatility, according to th…
The gap between US and Chinese AI models has narrowed from years to weeks, according to experts in Washington, following the release of new Chinese models from Moonshot AI and Alibaba Group Holding. U…
Moonshot AI's launch of Kimi K3 has revived debate over whether China can match US frontier AI performance despite limited access to advanced chips, with analysts warning that trillions of dollars in …
China's Moonshot AI released the Kimi K3 model, which rivals top US AI systems in cybersecurity flaw detection, matching OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra at a quarter of the cost of the flagship Sol model, acco…
Zhongji Innolight has secured more than 30 cornerstone investors for its US$8 billion Hong Kong IPO, set for July 30, which would be the city's largest listing in seven years. Nearly half the base sha…
Chinese AI firm Z.ai (Zhipu) shares surged 37% in Hong Kong on Tuesday to close at HK$1,219 after completing a 1-gigawatt data centre powered entirely by domestic chips, according to sources. The Beij…
Zhejiang University's Qiushi Engine topped the ResearchClawBench leaderboard, outperforming Anthropic's Claude Code in autonomous research tasks. The benchmark, created by the Shanghai Artificial Inte…
Axiom Biosciences, a US biotech firm using AI to develop therapies for newborns with severe brain injuries, plans to raise at least US$200 million through an IPO in Hong Kong in 2027, followed by a se…
Indonesia joined the China-led World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (Waico) on Thursday, a move analysts warn could complicate its ties with the US by limiting access to American AI …
Malaysia's upper house approved the Cybercrimes Bill 2026 on Monday, replacing the Computer Crimes Act 1997 to address online fraud, digital impersonation and AI-generated abuse, with Deputy Prime Min…
China's chip exports nearly doubled in the first half of 2024, driven by mature logic integrated circuits, while Nvidia's H200 chips have resumed limited imports into China. The US leads in advanced A…