A Beijing civil servant, Xie Yunshi, spent about 30 yuan (US$4.40) on AI platform tokens to build a smartphone app that tracks family evacuations after floods killed dozens in China. The app replaces …
Hong Kong's top DSE scorers attribute their success to Pomodoro timers, 'mistake booklets', and selective AI use. Wong Lok-yin from PLK Laws Foundation College used 25-minute study sprints with five-m…
A record 24 Hong Kong students scored perfect marks in the Diploma of Secondary Education exams, but the percentage meeting university entrance thresholds dipped to 36.8% from 38.6% last year, highlig…
Chinese regulators have granted Apple a licence to launch its Apple Intelligence AI service in China, with Alibaba and Baidu as technical partners. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) publish…
The United States is hardening its AI stance on China as lawmakers advance new export control bills and the Trump administration deepens cooperation with leading US AI firms. Anthropic head of nationa…
China warned users to uninstall Anthropic's Claude Code product over alleged security 'backdoor' risks, and the US AI company responded that Chinese users were not authorized to use it in the first pl…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signaled the company is prepared to cut prices for its flagship AI models by up to 75%, as competition intensifies with US rival Anthropic and cheaper Chinese alternatives. In a …
A newly released academic "humaniser" tool that removes stylistic clues of AI-generated writing threatens to undermine trust in scientific scholarship, warns Chang Ruay-Shiung, honorary chair professo…
China's Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has approved Apple Intelligence for iPhones after a two-year delay, with Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu serving as technical partners. Alibaba's Qwen …
A study of 1,222 people, still under peer review, found that using AI tools to solve arithmetic or reading comprehension exercises improved short-term performance but diminished long-term results and …
Chinese AI stocks have corrected more than 10% in the Star Market 50 Index over the past two weeks due to ChangXin Memory Technologies' mega IPO and Federal Reserve tightening fears, but fund managers…
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is in talks to raise a new financing round at a pre-investment valuation of around US$70 billion, shortly after closing its landmark Series A round. Th…
Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology (SUAT) in China will phase out standard English courses by 2026, replacing them with intercultural communication classes, provost Zhao Wei announced on July …
A letter to the editor argues that brands should let humans write first drafts instead of relying on AI, warning that AI-generated text pulls prose toward the mean and erases brand-defining style. The…
Taiwan's opposition Taiwan People's Party (TPP) has sent its first formal delegation to mainland China since the party's founding in 2019, a nine-member group led by Lee Wei-hwa that left for Shanghai…
Hong Kong's media industry risks missing financial and cultural opportunities by failing to invest in AI and data monetization, as international publishers like News Corp sign deals worth US$250 milli…
Boko Haram used US and Chinese AI chatbots, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and DeepSeek's chatbot, to assist in bomb construction, attack planning, and propaganda, according to a Camb…
US Commerce Under Secretary Jeffrey Kessler told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that Nvidia has shipped only a "very small quantity" of H200 AI chips to mainland China and Hong Kong, c…
Tencent-backed Chinese startup StepFun on Monday unveiled the StepX Neo, which it claims is the world's first AI-native smartphone, at a launch event in Shanghai. The device runs on Step AOS, an opera…
Alibaba Group Holding and Honor will deepen their tie-up over an operating system for AI-powered devices, with a joint announcement expected at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai…