Enterprise AI inference costs hit a 2026 low, with average prices ranging between US$1.16 and US$1.18 per million tokens from August 6 to 8, according to investment bank Jefferies, citing data from US…
An AI-generated short film depicting a zombie apocalypse version of Singapore's National Day Parade has sparked debate about the future of filmmaking. Creator Joel Boh, showrunner of Southeast Asia's …
AgiBot shipped roughly 8,400 humanoid robots in the first half of 2026, capturing 44% of the global market to overtake Unitree Robotics as the world's largest humanoid robot vendor, according to Smart…
China's Communist Party Central Committee and State Council invited 60 experts to the Beidaihe summer retreat from August 1 to 7, with 15 named participants spanning defence engineering, semiconductor…
Morgan Stanley warned that the memory cycle will enter its late stage in the fourth quarter as price increases moderate and inventories build, signaling a potential end to the AI-driven memory price b…
A Hong Kong University of Science and Technology survey of 3,722 working professionals found that 72.7% use AI tools weekly, more than double the 31% global average from a 2025 KPMG study. Generative …
China's rare earth producers reported strong first-half profits despite geopolitical tensions, with Shenzhen-listed China Rare Earth Resources and Technology posting a 46.53% year-on-year net profit s…
Malaysia is seeking to deepen economic ties with South Korea in semiconductors, AI, electric vehicles, renewable energy, and the halal sector, according to Malaysian Investment Development Authority (…
China's top AI developers remain reliant on Nvidia chips for training large language models, despite Beijing's push for self-sufficiency, due to high transition costs and the dominance of Nvidia's CUD…
Chinese researchers at BGI-Research have released OneGenome, a free open-source AI system that outperformed general large language models such as DeepSeek-v4 and other traditional gene models in clini…
China has deployed an AI-driven fish facial recognition system to track migrating fish through a fishway on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, replacing manual counts. The system, reported by Global …
Moore Threads, a Chinese AI chip developer, plans to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after reporting a 147% jump in first-half revenue to 1.7 billion yuan (US$252 million), with net loss narrowin…
China's open-weight AI models have triggered a price war, with large-language model inference prices per million tokens falling from above US$2 at the start of June to US$1.2 this week, according to S…
The 2027 US defence bill, the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), reflects a broad bipartisan consensus on expanding military, technological and economic rivalry with China, with both House and…
Shanghai Maritime University law professor Guo Ran urged Beijing to pass a law protecting China's underwater fibre-optic cables, citing growing global threats to the undersea cables that carry about 9…
Ahead of President Xi Jinping's planned September visit to Washington for a summit with US President Donald Trump, new disputes over Chinese AI models, US restrictions on advanced robotics, and trade …
Shares of China's leading optical-module makers rebounded on Wednesday after analysts downplayed the impact of proposed US restrictions that could block future American AI data centre sales. Zhongji I…
Goldman Sachs raised its run-rate revenue forecast for China's artificial intelligence model market by 30% to US$13 billion, citing aggressive price cuts, technical breakthroughs, and accelerating cor…
Chinese military researchers from the National Defence University warned in Science and Technology Daily that submarine cables carrying 99% of intercontinental data and supporting US$10 trillion in da…
China's state-run People's Daily on Wednesday condemned U.S. technology restrictions as 'unilateral bullying' and 'discriminatory suppression' against Chinese firms, urging Washington to expand cooper…