ByteDance and Tencent have slashed AI model prices, joining a deepening price war in China's AI sector as falling costs and narrowing capability gaps intensify competition. ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Mi…
Hong Kong's privacy watchdog launched the Hong Kong International Data Privacy Academy on Tuesday to develop top talent in the sector, aligning with the national strategy to make the city a global tal…
China's universities have revoked or suspended 12,200 undergraduate degree programs and introduced 10,200 new ones between 2021 and 2025, affecting over 30% of all programs. The cuts target arts, huma…
Alibaba Group launched its first suite of AI models for robots, the Qwen Robot Suite, developed by Tongyi Lab. The suite includes three models for navigation, world simulation, and manipulation, and h…
China's Harbin Institute of Technology has developed technology to produce large synthetic diamond wafers, potentially as wide as a basketball, using microwave plasma chemical vapour deposition. These…
Chinese metal producer MMG plans to raise US$1.6 billion through a share placement and convertible bonds to fund expansion, capitalizing on rising demand for critical metals driven by AI infrastructur…
Wei Siyuan, a 19-year-old Chinese student and CEO of a drone and AI company, donated 100,000 yuan to sanitation workers at his former school. He founded the company with two friends while still in sec…
Hong Kong faces a record US$274 billion wave of lock-up expirations this year, threatening to flood the market with freed shares from IPOs. Analysts warn of potential price pressure but see opportunit…
A federal judge dismissed Elon Musk's xAI trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, ruling that xAI failed to prove OpenAI induced former engineer Xuechen Li to steal confidential information related to th…
Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda paired actress Haruka Ayase with TV comic Daigo Yamamoto in his sci-fi drama 'Sheep in the Box', which debuted at the Cannes film festival. The film explores a griev…
Shares of Zhipu AI surged up to 48% on Monday after the Chinese firm announced it would open-source its latest large language model, GLM-5.2, later this week. The move aims to attract users seeking ch…
China is cutting university degrees in artificial intelligence and other tech fields to streamline education, while a Miss Hong Kong contestant sparked debate over Cantonese fluency. Other weekend sto…
UBS hosted its inaugural Asian Investment Conference Wealth Forum in Hong Kong and Singapore, drawing over 6,200 attendees to discuss AI, global connectivity, and investment strategies amid geopolitic…
Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, will visit Hong Kong on Tuesday to inspect the city's alignment with the national 15th five-year plan and the development of the Northe…
AI-driven demand for multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) has triggered a supply bottleneck, with AI servers requiring up to 28,000 MLCCs per unit—a 13-fold increase from standard servers. The surge,…
A mother and her 12-year-old daughter died by suicide within hours of each other in Hong Kong after an argument about education problems, prompting calls for reflection on an exam-driven system descri…
Hong Kong commercial landlords may need to invest in refurbishing or converting aging office buildings to accommodate artificial intelligence technology, as firms relocate to newer properties that sup…
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pledged that China will be a reliable neighbor for Mongolia during a visit focused on cross-border transport and trade ties, urging closer alignment of development str…
JPMorgan's Alex Yao says China's AI competition has shifted from raw technical performance to delivering measurable business value, with major platforms like ByteDance introducing paid subscriptions f…
A surge in AI-related court cases in China, including a landmark ruling against a tech company that fired a worker for refusing a demotion citing AI replacement, has intensified calls for a unified le…