Hong Kong will expand its yuan facility by 150% to 500 billion yuan (US$73.6 billion) to meet international demand, HKMA Chief Executive Eddie Yue announced Tuesday. The facility's tenure will extend …
Hong Kong's stock market faces potential sell-off pressure as lock-up periods end for AI firms Zhipu AI and MiniMax, releasing shares worth US$11.5 billion. Analysts warn of dual selling pressure from…
Vascue deployed a privacy-first AI architecture on AWS for a Hong Kong hospital's radiology department, processing patient referral letters and quotations via WhatsApp without sending raw data to exte…
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee announced that artificial intelligence will be the 'central plank' of the city's economic development, guided by its first five-year blueprint and upcoming policy ad…
Kuaishou Technology shares fell over 6% after Tencent Holdings cut its stake from 15.68% to 9.37% by selling 273 million Class B shares, raising about HK$12.56 billion. The divestment followed Tencent…
Singapore-based Carousell achieved its first positive adjusted operating profit, with revenue growing 18% year-on-year to US$141 million. Co-founder Marcus Tan attributed the milestone to years of inv…
China minted 67 new unicorn start-ups in the first half of 2026, the highest in nearly five years, driven by a boom in artificial intelligence and robotics. AI and robotics accounted for over 53% of t…
Hong Kong cinema faces an existential threat from AI-generated content, which is flooding the market and undermining human creativity. The author argues that without proper regulations to protect inte…
Hong Kong's top International Baccalaureate scorers credited AI and balanced study routines for their success, with students from Diocesan Boys' School, Victoria Shanghai Academy, and Po Leung Kuk Cho…
Nobel-winning materials scientist Omar Yaghi has left the United States to join China's Tsinghua University, where he will lead an AI-driven research center focused on developing materials to address …
Chinese firms operate, finance, or hold stakes in about one third of all ports in Africa and now control the software, automation, and AI tools that run the infrastructure, according to a study by the…
Hong Kong's net employment outlook for the third quarter plunged to minus 9%, a 20 percentage point drop from the previous quarter, as AI rapidly replaces entry-level jobs, leaving fresh graduates wit…
ByteDance's Seed AI team discovered a new scaling law showing AI agents can double learning speed every three months through real-world interaction, potentially sustaining the AI boom as traditional t…
Alibaba Group Holding has banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code, citing security risks after discovering the US AI firm used hidden code to track Chinese users. The Chinese tech giant ad…
In the AI era, US-China competition hinges on adaptive capacity rather than traditional power metrics, as AI compresses strategic time and rewards faster learning and innovation. The decisive advantag…
China's Kling AI, a spin-off from Kuaishou Technology, is nearing a US$3 billion fundraising round at an US$18 billion valuation, with Tencent among the investors. The company plans to start its Hong …
China unveiled a new industrial internet road map on Tuesday, setting a target of 50,000 industrial 5G private networks by 2030 and aiming for the sector's value added to exceed 2.5 trillion yuan. The…
Hong Kong's tech chief Sun Dong warned that artificial intelligence will trigger the 'greatest industrial revolution,' surpassing all previous ones, and will significantly impact graduates and workers…
Japan approved a new industrial strategy allocating 100 billion yen to rebuild its ship repair capacity, aiming to reduce dependence on China which handles 60% of global ship repairs and most of Japan…
UBTech unveiled the U1 humanoid robot in Shenzhen on Tuesday, featuring silicone skin and emotional AI, priced from 119,800 yuan to 990,000 yuan. The robot is designed for domestic companionship, with…