China's Moonshot AI is expected to close a financing round by the end of August at a valuation of up to US$50 billion, ahead of a potential Hong Kong IPO as early as year-end, according to sources. Th…
President Donald Trump claimed that China is behind community protests against AI data centres in the United States, saying Beijing is spending money to promote resistance because the U.S. is ahead in…
Mainland Chinese investors bought US$8 billion more Hong Kong stocks than they sold in July, marking a second consecutive month of net buying, as they sought refuge from global AI-related volatility i…
Tencent Holdings rolled out its flagship artificial intelligence model Hy3 to global developers, enterprises, and users through WorkBuddy, Tencent Design Miora, and TokenHub, with free access on WorkB…
Andrew Ng, former head of Google Brain and former chief scientist at Baidu, said at the Agentic AI Summit in Berkeley on Saturday that open-weight models appear safer than closed-weight models, citing…
The World Bank on Tuesday urged developing countries to adopt lower-cost artificial intelligence tools to improve governance, warning they risk being left behind if they do not. Chief Economist Inderm…
The South China Morning Post's July 2026 global relations roundup highlights seven stories, including NATO's new defence projects against Russia and China, China's openness to reducing its EU trade su…
As the US and China compete over AI, middle powers can forge a third path, according to an analysis of recent developments including the US-led Pax Silica summit and China's World Artificial Intellige…
China's artificial intelligence company MiniMax has open-sourced its new H3 video model but imposed licensing restrictions on users in the US, EU, UK, and South Korea, citing regulatory uncertainties …
Spirit AI's Spirit v1.6 model briefly topped the RoboArena robotics benchmark in early June, surpassing Nvidia, but was removed days later after the benchmark's creators found evidence of 'benchmark h…
SpaceX's first earnings report since its listing and the upcoming expiry of trading restrictions on part of its IPO shares will test the strength of the artificial intelligence trade, which has driven…
Lenovo, the Chinese multinational, created Ref Cam, a major television hit at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and is now exploring with FIFA to bring its AI technology to future tournaments, including the 20…
Russian-born Belgian mathematician Yurii Nesterov, 70, has won the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, the highest honour in applied mathematics, at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphi…
Educators say reliance on AI in education is eroding children's patience, sustained attention, critical thinking, and 'productive struggle', and recommend handwriting and learning a musical instrument…
Nandan Nilekani, architect of India's digital identity platform Aadhaar, faces an uphill battle overhauling India's education system amid exam scandals, student protests, and rising youth unemployment…
Goldman Sachs analysts Daan Struyven and Lia Thomas reported on Monday that China has become the de facto 'volatility arbiter' for global commodity markets, dampening price volatility in hydrocarbons …
Leading Chinese brokerages, including Citic Securities, forecast a rebound in A-share tech and chip stocks in August, citing strong domestic fundamentals and a correction rather than a deleveraging sh…
Meta and Anthropic will join Google and OpenAI at the White House on Tuesday to discuss a voluntary framework that would give the U.S. government early access to their most advanced AI models for cybe…
China's tech giants are offering fresh AI graduates salaries 16 times the national average, and recruiters are courting doctoral researchers like Hu Qi at the University of Hong Kong up to three or fo…
South China Morning Post cartoonist Harry Harrison's July 'Harry's View' cartoons satirized Hong Kong issues including allowing dogs in restaurants, artificial intelligence complicating work for teach…