Nomura International Wealth Management's North Asia chief investment officer Julia Wang said investment market volatility is 'here to stay' for years unless a global recession occurs, citing structura…
Inner Mongolia's Ulanqab, historically known for livestock and potatoes, is now powering China's AI boom with cheap wind power and a cool climate. Chinese renewable energy company Envision Group broug…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. priced a HK$80 billion (US$10.2 billion) new share offering, issuing 710 million shares at an 8.4% discount to its Hong Kong closing price and a 3.6% discount to its New Yor…
African insurtech platform Curacel has added GLM-5.3, a Chinese AI model developed by Beijing-based Zhipu AI, to its infrastructure alongside Western models, citing comparable performance at lower cos…
Zheng Yongnian, dean of the School of Public Policy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, said on Sunday that US initiatives such as Pax Silica, the chip alliance, and the rare earth allia…
Chinese consumer platforms such as RedNote are building in-house AI models, with RedNote's Dots Studio releasing Dots3-Note Preview, a 280-billion-parameter open-weight model that the company says mat…
Ministers across the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum issued a statement supporting open-source AI models at a recent digital technology and AI forum in Chengdu, reflecting a regional shift tow…
Hong Kong's Employees Retraining Board will partner with major tech firms to launch the HK$50 million (US$6.4 million) 'AI for All' training programme in November, aiming to benefit 50,000 people with…
Alibaba Group Holding will issue HK$80 billion in new shares and use the entire proceeds to invest in AI, aiming to extend its global AI leadership, the Chinese tech giant said on Sunday. The funds wi…
A growing number of non-programmers in China are building their own AI tools, driven by fear of falling behind as technology reshapes work and daily life, according to mainland media outlet Jizhou Stu…
Chinese researchers have built the world's first custom plant immunity system, using programmable synthetic immune receptors and AI to enable crops to develop immunity against emerging viruses, bacter…
Hong Kong's Environmental Protection Department reported that using artificial intelligence to accelerate environmental impact assessments shortened the process from 36-48 months to 15-24 months, redu…
Nvidia has notified some of its largest customers that prices for servers containing its AI chips will rise more than 15% in many cases, driven by soaring memory chip costs, according to people famili…
Chinese AI and semiconductor firms are leading a wave of aggressive equity incentive plans to retain talent amid a fierce domestic headhunting market and the intensifying US-China tech race. AI chipma…
Chinese smart vehicle makers face rising costs and a 20-30% global shortage of printed circuit boards (PCBs) and multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), with prices more than tripling over the past yea…
China and the United States are pressuring Southeast Asian nations to join their rival artificial intelligence blocs, testing the region's non-alignment stance. Beijing has lobbied Association of Sout…
San Francisco-based legal tech provider Harvey, backed by OpenAI, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz, announced Thursday that its new model, Harvey Tenet, was post-trained on Moonshot AI's open-…
China's three state-owned telecoms operators are making billable AI tokens a key growth metric as AI adoption accelerates. China Telecom reported a 95% surge in intelligent computing revenue in the fi…
Chinese agricultural scientists have launched Fengshu 2.0, a generative AI breeding platform for soybeans, marking a shift toward data-assisted breeding and precision decision-making, as reported by X…
Alibaba Group Holding is expected to accelerate cloud growth, expand operating margins, and achieve faster payback on AI investments, according to analysts, as the company reaches the halfway mark of …