A visit to a Shanghai-based artificial intelligence research institute reveals China's strategic use of AI for global soft power, as depicted in an ink-wash map showing chipmakers like Huawei as mount…
US President Donald Trump said America's goal must be to dominate the future, including being the No 1 superpower in artificial intelligence, framing AI development as a zero-sum geopolitical race. In…
US lawmakers are investigating DoorDash's use of Chinese AI models after co-founder and CEO Tony Xu disclosed experimenting with a model from Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi models. Representatives…
A Foreign Affairs special issue on US-China rivalry argues that the focus on which country would win a war is misguided, advocating instead for avoiding conflict and addressing mutual threats like cli…
Beijing accused Washington of politicizing global undersea cable networks after reports that the U.S. plans to spend US$175.8 million to replace ageing lines in the Caribbean and Central America to bl…
Situational Awareness, a US hedge fund founded in 2024 that bet heavily on AI supply chain stocks, saw its portfolio value plummet 67 per cent in July and was forced to sell billions of dollars in tec…
OpenAI has slashed developer pricing for its GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80%, cutting API costs to US$0.20 per million input tokens and US$1.20 per million output tokens, as announced by CEO Sam Altman on X…
MiniMax launched H3, its newest multimodal video generation model, with open weights and competitive pricing, aiming to challenge closed-source rivals like ByteDance's Seedance 2.5. According to bench…
Shanghai-based RedNote is planning a 600-megawatt data centre in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, with a budget of around 15 billion yuan (US$2.2 billion) excluding semiconductor costs, according to an anonym…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on the People's Liberation Army to strengthen its use of artificial intelligence, urging the military to 'strengthen the military application of unmanned intell…
US Senator Ted Cruz warned a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on Thursday that delays in building AI infrastructure could cede the lead in the AI race to China, citing the…
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook said the company will launch its AI software in China, but the revamped Siri AI will take longer to roll out, as the company seeks to retain its competitive edge in…
The SEED Foundation's IdeaPOP! 2026 competition in Hong Kong received over a hundred applications from secondary school students, with nearly every proposal featuring artificial intelligence. The prog…
A US State Department presentation at the Aids 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro displayed a map of Africa that mislabeled every country, according to a Reuters analysis of a video of the event. The m…
The Greater Bay Area (GBA) is positioned as the ideal ecosystem for AI development due to its financial stability, digital infrastructure, and consumer market, according to discussions at the inaugura…
ByteDance's projected annual AI revenue of US$4 billion is the largest known to the public among Chinese rivals, as the Beijing-based company restructures its office tool Lark by integrating its produ…
The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index of US-listed Chinese companies rose 1.7% since the Fed's July rate-decision meeting, outperforming the Nasdaq-100 which slumped 2.1%, as confusion over Fed policy …
Chinese tech giants face growing pressure to prove that billions of dollars in AI infrastructure spending will yield sustainable profits, mirroring US counterparts like Meta and Alphabet whose rising …
BYD, the world's largest electric vehicle maker, plans to debut its first humanoid robots in August at its Di Space experience centres in China, intensifying its rivalry with Tesla's Optimus robot. Th…
A majority of surveyed global asset management firms plan to raise their artificial intelligence budgets by at least 50% within the next year, according to a study released Tuesday by US fintech firm …