China's three leading chip packaging firms—Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET), Tongfu Microelectronics, and Huatian Technology—have announced capacity expansion investments exceeding 15 …
Chinese researchers have engineered a 'smart' probiotic for diabetes care that they aim to bring to US shelves within two years, potentially simplifying treatment to consuming yogurt or a capsule. The…
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has released draft guidelines to formulate or revise more than 40 brain-computer interface standards by 2028, aiming to accelerate commer…
Chinese investors are rotating into dividend stocks as the AI trade fizzles, with the Shanghai Stock Exchange Dividend Index rising 3.8% this month versus a 0.2% gain in the Star Market 50 index. The …
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is nearing a funding round that values it at about 500 billion yuan (US$74 billion) pre-investment, with plans to raise about 50 billion yuan before the end of August, acco…
Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, published 75 years ago this week, remains a seminal science fiction masterpiece whose themes of psychohistory and social engineering resonate in the AI era, according…
A conference in southern China heard that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) framework could help develop a fairer artificial intelligence governance system, as the economic gap between rich…
Residents of Sterling, Virginia, dispute President Donald Trump's claim that Chinese influence is driving opposition to US data centres, saying their protests stem from the invasive noise, fumes, and …
Alibaba Group Holding founder Jack Ma has bought more than HK$600 million worth of the company's Hong Kong-listed shares on consecutive days, signalling confidence in the firm's AI ambitions, accordin…
Open-weight AI models from China hit a record 62% share of token volume on Vercel's AI Gateway on Saturday, up from 28% on June 24, driven largely by DeepSeek's V4-Flash model, according to Vercel CEO…
Hong Kong's exports surged 50.7% year on year in July to HK$672.5 billion (US$86.2 billion), driven by impressive growth in AI-related electronic products, according to provisional figures from the Ce…
Guangdong province will curb industrial output, conduct drills, and deploy artificial intelligence to pinpoint pollution sources to ensure blue skies over Shenzhen for the Apec summit starting Novembe…
South Korea is overhauling rules for technical qualification exams after five candidates were caught using AI-powered smart glasses to cheat between May and June, according to data submitted to the Hu…
A draft letter from the United States warns that countries joining a China-led AI cooperation framework would be excluded from the US-led AI coalition, stating 'To be part of everything is to be part …
Xiaomi unveiled its flagship Xring O3 3nm AI processor for smartphones, scheduled to debut in September aboard its Xiaomi 18 Fold, alongside a 6nm Xring O100 AI accelerator and a 3nm Xring D100 chip f…
Residents across Southeast Asia, from a Malaysian township to the Philippine province of Iloilo, are resisting data centre projects planned near their homes, citing concerns over noise, water use, and…
Australia's top music charts will ban wholly AI-generated songs under new rules effective Friday, the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) announced Tuesday, requiring music to be 'substan…
US President Donald Trump invested as much as US$50,000 in Elon Musk's SpaceX in June, according to a public financial disclosure signed on August 12 and made public on August 22. The purchase, made o…
Xpeng's robotics unit Dogotix raised US$900 million in a funding round that valued it at US$6.3 billion, with backers including Alibaba Group Holding, Tencent Holdings, IDG Capital, and Gaorong Ventur…
Malaysia is drafting efficiency requirements for data centres to guide a sustainable tech boom, aiming to green the sector rather than restrict it, according to the South China Morning Post. The move …