Hong Kong schools are testing AI-powered 'third spaces' for mental health support, including the metaverse-based Mindverse platform from Hong Kong Polytechnic University and EmoCare AI from the Educat…
Chinese police scientists have revealed how they used AI tools to infiltrate and monitor the dark web, according to a research team from the Criminal Investigation Police University of China. In May, …
Chinese robotics companies lack sufficient data and a good 'brain' to improve real-world interactions, according to industry insiders at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai…
China's open-weight AI model Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based start-up Moonshot AI, has narrowed the country's artificial intelligence gap with the US to 'a matter of weeks', according to analysts.…
SenseTime CEO Xu Li said AI commercialization will shift from a 'token economy' to a 'task economy' as token prices inevitably drop, comparing the trend to telecoms data costs two decades ago. Speakin…
Changzhou, a city in eastern Jiangsu province, announced it is building China's first city-level clean-power token factory, expected to produce 60 trillion tokens annually to support the country's AI …
Smaller, family-run businesses in mainland China are adopting artificial intelligence more readily than large enterprises, according to industry leaders at the inaugural Nusa Dua Forum in Bali. Zhou Y…
Hong Kong education experts say DSE graduates can benefit from a gap year for internships, volunteer work or exchange programmes to build soft skills and stand out amid competition and the rise of art…
Investors at the Nusa Dua Forum in Bali expressed optimism about the long-delayed Asean power grid, citing surging demand from AI and data centres as a key driver. The Association of Southeast Asian N…
A Chinese research team led by the Institute of Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a fabrication method that cuts production time for 3D optical chips from hours to seconds, a…
Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman has reclassified crocodiles from wild animals to "captive-bred wildlife", enabling far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir to proceed…
China is accelerating the buildout of a national ecosystem of Chinese-language data for AI, which analysts say has become a 'more winnable' arena amid US restrictions on advanced chips and technologie…
Delegates at the World AI Conference in Shanghai warned that fragmentation risks isolating emerging markets and concentrating advanced computing in rich economies, urging greater global cooperation an…
Alibaba Group Holding's chip design unit T-Head announced at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday that it will open-source its SAIL software stack, the foundational architecture for its Zhe…
Two humanoid robots fought in the first Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL) MMA bout in Shenzhen this week, leaving one T800 robot decapitated and stunning fans, including martial arts actor Donnie…
Chinese semiconductor design firm Biren Technology has unveiled next-generation 'supernode' solutions using near-packaged optics to link up to 1,024 AI chips across a single cluster, bypassing traditi…
A ByteDance employee in Beijing burns through nearly a billion AI tokens monthly, yet ranks low in department consumption, as Chinese tech giants including ByteDance, Alibaba Group Holding, and Tencen…
Asia's AI boom is driving a surge in coal consumption as data centers demand round-the-clock power that solar and wind cannot yet reliably provide, according to market research analyst Alexander Khede…
Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a landmark opening speech at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, called for a multilateral and inclusive global AI governance model based on…
Chinese brands must adapt to the rise of agentic AI, which is increasingly shaping consumer choices by autonomously curating recommendations based on personal preferences, according to speakers at the…