DeepSeek is introducing peak-hour surcharges for its API services, reversing its earlier price cuts that triggered a price war among Chinese AI companies. The surcharge doubles the cost of accessing i…
Hungary's OTP Bank became the first European financial institution to directly list a debt financing programme on the Hong Kong stock exchange, signaling a shift by European banks toward Asian capital…
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model trained entirely on domestic chips, claiming it as the country's first trillion-parameter model built on hom…
South Korea announced a $518 billion semiconductor push to maintain its technological edge over China, led by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The plan includes building a second chipmaking hub in th…
ByteDance aims to finalize the design of its next-generation in-house CPU by early next year, targeting mass production in the second half of 2027 to power its AI infrastructure. The company is collab…
Finnish Hollywood director Renny Harlin, known for 'Die Hard 2' and 'Cliffhanger', credits his six-year stint in China during its pre-pandemic film boom for enriching his storytelling, and embraces AI…
China's Ministry of State Security warned that a popular augmented reality game may be providing geospatial data to train foreign military AI models. The ministry cited reports that an AI company link…
Nick Robinson stars as Wes in Netflix's new romantic comedy 'Voicemails for Isabelle', which debuted in the platform's top 10 with an 85% Rotten Tomatoes rating. The actor, who made his on-screen debu…
The Fifth Hong Kong Science Fair, organized by the Hong Kong Innovation Foundation and supported by Sino Group and the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau, concluded with over 60,000 visits. Ar…
Concerns that artificial intelligence will disrupt Asia's real estate sector are overblown, as demand for digital infrastructure in developing countries remains strong regardless of the AI boom's traj…
South Korea unveiled sweeping chip and AI megaprojects worth US$650 billion on Monday, as President Lee Jae Myung pledged to cement the nation's leadership in the global AI and semiconductor market. T…
Japan's Osaka Prefectural Police deployed an AI avatar named AIko on YouTube to warn citizens about scams, as fraud cost the country a record US$2 billion last year. The avatar, created by professor T…
China's AI-powered laser mosquito zapper went viral after a successful crowdfunding campaign, while Wu Chun's luggage ordeal and other weekend stories highlighted regional trends.…
China broke ground on its first AI-powered personalized cancer vaccine production line in Beijing, developed by Likang Life Sciences. The facility will produce LK101, a vaccine that uses AI to analyze…
Meta Platforms' new vice-president of AI research, Dawn Song, said the next frontier of artificial intelligence will be agents that can perform economically valuable work across real-world domains. So…
Chinese stocks are expected to extend gains in the second half of 2026 as resilient exports and recovering producer prices support economic growth, with brokerages forecasting 10-15% earnings growth f…
China's new tech bases in Hebei and Tianjin, including Pinduoduo's move to Xiongan New Area, may boost local rentals but home sales growth is expected to be milder than past surges due to cautious buy…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled DSpark, a speculative decoding framework that speeds up AI inference by up to 85% while reducing costs and chip strain. The module uses a lightweight draft model a…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that the artificial intelligence investment boom is funneling capital through loosely regulated non-bank channels, exposing the financial system to risks …
Chinese chipmaker Basic Semiconductor is moving forward with an IPO in Hong Kong, betting on silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors to address the power demands of AI-driven data centers. The company jo…