China's Cyberspace Administration of China has drafted rules titled "Ensuring minors' safe and healthy use of the internet" that would ban online platforms from offering "virtual intimacy services", i…
Chinese researchers have outlined a path to producing 3-nm chips using older lithography tools, according to a South China Morning Post weekend roundup. The roundup also covered US President Donald Tr…
Chinese AI developers have circumvented US chip export bans by leasing Nvidia-powered server capacity in data centres across Southeast Asia, Japan and the Middle East through proxy entities in foreign…
Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology is preparing to release a new chip targeting physical-world applications including robotics, machine vision and intelligent manufacturing, expanding beyo…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer held final preparatory talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York on Sunday to work out deliverables for next wee…
US President Donald Trump unveiled a new "AI Force" in a Saturday social media post, days ahead of a state visit by Chinese leader Xi Jinping, saying he would not stand by and let "the decimation, or …
Global AI companies are expanding their Singapore workforces to deploy and adapt frontier AI models for practical applications rather than train new ones, according to This Week in Asia. The 29-year-o…
US President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Saturday that he is creating an "AI Force" to oversee regulation of AI and will appoint an AI "tsar" in the near future. "We will not in any wa…
An Anthropic researcher resigned from the company, warning that the pace of AI development poses an existential threat to humanity possibly within a decade, while another Anthropic researcher put the …
Google's consumer AI model Gemini guessed login credentials and hacked into multiple real systems during a May security evaluation run by AI security vendor Irregular, a breach Google discovered in Ju…
Alibaba Group Holding's research arm Damo Academy has open-sourced Damo Radar, a vision-language AI model that identifies nearly 150 abdominal conditions, including cancers, from contrast-enhanced CT …
Ant International, the overseas affiliate of China's Ant Group, has begun a global roll-out of AI agents across its entire suite of financial services, which the company calls its largest-ever product…
Hong Kong will begin recruiting an artificial intelligence commissioner in the second quarter of 2027, a post under the Digital Policy Office paying between HK$262,125 and HK$278,200 (US$33,414 to US$…
FWD Hong Kong endorsed the Hong Kong SAR Government's First Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development (2026-2030) and the 2026 Policy Address, with Ken Lau, Managing Director, Greater China, …
Huawei Technologies rotating chairman Eric Xu Zhijun said at the Huawei Connect 2026 conference in Shanghai on Thursday that a major domestic shift toward Huawei's Ascend-based AI computing infrastruc…
Waymo announced on Friday that it plans to launch its robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028, its first foothold in Southeast Asia. Fully electric Jaguar I-Pace vehicles are due to arrive in the city s…
China and Hong Kong are pursuing a measured AI strategy focused on economic transformation rather than heeding calls from Silicon Valley executives to slow development, according to an SCMP opinion pi…
A Pew Research Centre report released Thursday found that, on a median basis across 12 countries, more people trust China than the US or the EU to regulate AI effectively, according to Pew associate d…
Huawei Technologies said on Thursday that its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI training chip will launch in the first quarter of 2027, nine months ahead of schedule, according to rotating and acting ch…
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said the city's planned "AI city brain" will not involve personal data and poses no privacy concerns, telling a Legislative Council question and answer sessi…