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News articles, analyses and commentary about machines that mimic human cognitive functions such as learning and problem solving. This also covers chatbots, algorithms, consumer products and Big Data analysis that make use of AI.
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Chiang Kai-shek’s great grandson, Coldplay ticketing mess: 7 highlights

Andrew Chiang You-ching, the great-grandson of Taiwan’s former leader Chiang Kai-shek, announced on social media that he is moving to Hangzhou to build a career and promote cross-strait ties. Photo: Douyin/Andrew Chiang

How US-China collaboration in neutrinos led to breakthroughs and then broke down

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2,000 tonnes of gold: China says new technology helped find largest deposits

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Chinese state media says geological authorities used 3D monitoring and other prospecting technologies to uncover potentially large deposits of gold. Photo: Shutterstock Images

Do China and the US need to work together on AI safety? Boao Forum debates

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A panel discussion at this year’s Boao Forum in Hainan, southern China looked at the global governance challenges of artificial intelligence technology. Photo: Shutterstock

China aims to switch on world’s first fusion-fission power plant by 2030

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Xinghuo would be the first major hybrid project in the world designed to deliver real-world power by combining the strengths of both processes. Photo: Shutterstock
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ChatGPT can create images in the style of Hayao Miyazaki’s anime films for Studio Ghibli, such as this one of Janu Lingeswaran, an entrepreneur in Aachen, Germany, and his cat Mali, delighting fans but raising copyright concerns. Photo: X/lycfyi
Art

Are ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli-style AI images fun memes or copyright breach?

AI images mimicking Studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki’s intricate style have delighted fans, but what did ChatGPT train on to make them?

China's economic recovery

Developing | China’s Xi meets international business reps as Beijing turns up the charm

Boao Forum for Asia

‘Unstoppable momentum’ vs ‘big challenges’ in China’s cross-border e-commerce

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Alibaba

Alibaba’s AI crackdown: Taobao says e-commerce images must be ‘realistic’

Taobao’s initiative aligns with China’s broader regulatory efforts to address the misuse of generative AI.

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Taobao and Tmall Group is targeting the use of AI-generated product images that deceive buyers across all its platforms. Photo: Reuters
Alibaba

Alibaba launches AI model that can process images and video on the go

The multimodal Qwen2.5-Omni-7B model is designed to run locally on mobile devices and tops rivals in some benchmarks.

Banking & finance

Cathie Wood sees AI driving US$10 trillion global robotaxi revolution

The CEO of Ark Investment says the market will help propel a near 10-fold jump in Tesla’s share price to US$2,600 in five years.

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Alibaba

China’s 2025 cloud spending to grow 15% on the back of DeepSeek adoption

Cloud spending, which totalled US$40 billion in 2024, is expected to reach US$46 billion this year as cloud providers expand investments.

The Alibaba cloud logo is shown on a smartphone is this arranged photograph taken June 24, 2024. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Wellness

Scared of needles? Blood-taking robots could provide painless solution

A Dutch firm’s AI-powered machines that draw blood with more accuracy than humans without the patient seeing the needle to be trialled in US.

US-China relations

Do China and the US need to work together on AI safety? Boao Forum debates

Artificial intelligence experts and business leaders discuss how the world can build effective governance models for all countries.

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Robotics

US robotics firms push for national strategy to compete with China

Tesla, Boston Dynamics and others are pushing for US policies that would boost American companies in the global robotics race.

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Humanoid robots perform at the Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE
Robotics

Unitree Robotics profitable since 2020, eyes expansion amid high demand

The Hangzhou start-up known for its robot dogs told local media it had no immediate plans for additional fundraising.

A Unitree G1 humanoid robot waves to children at a kindergarten in Yantai, Shandong province. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images
Microsoft

Microsoft abandons data centre projects, sparking oversupply fears

Microsoft’s retrenchment in the last six months included lease cancellations and deferrals, analysts at investment bank TD Cowen said.

US-China relations

US adds more Chinese firms to tech ban list. Is it just the start for Trump 2.0?

America has a sense of urgency about the way China is closing the technology gap, analyst says.

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US-China tech war

Beijing AI research lab says inclusion on US export control list a ‘mistake’

The updated BIS list includes more than 50 new Chinese entities, including six units of cloud computing provider Inspur Group.

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Wang Zhongyuan, head of Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, speaks at the annual BAAI Conference on June 14, 2024. Photo: Ben Jiang
United States

US adds 80 companies, including over 50 Chinese firms, to export blacklist

Companies from Taiwan, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa and UAE also were included.

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The Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington where the Department of Commerce is based. Photo: Shutterstock
Joe Tsai

Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai questions AI’s limits, casts doubt on humanoid robots

Speaking at Alibaba’s Jumpstarter event, the entrepreneur said much of what humans value is not captured in training data.

Alibaba

Alibaba, Ant partner with home province to boost China’s AI drive

The two tech giants have become key partners in empowering government agencies with AI capabilities.

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Hong Kong stock market

China’s narrower tech gap with US creates investment opportunities: fund managers

CEOs of Primavera Capital, Franklin Templeton tout long-term potential of Chinese stocks at first World Economic Forum event in Hong Kong.

Jenny Johnson of Franklin Templeton (left) and Fred Hu of Primavera Capital take part in a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems 2025 Symposium in Hong Kong on March 26, 2025. Photo: Dickson Lee
Tencent

Tencent adds AI chatbot friend to WeChat to keep users glued to app

WeChat users can now add Yuanbao as a ‘friend’ and interact with the chatbot without downloading a separate app.

Apple

Apple CEO meets top Chinese officials in charm offensive but offers no AI update

Cook was among 80 company executives who attended the China Development Forum, an annual event to facilitate dialogue with global investors.

ChatGPT and other generative AIs

ChatGPT can now create charts for work and edit photos better

The new capabilities are available to both free and paid users via OpenAI’s GPT-4o model.

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OpenAI has brought image generation to GPT-4o. Photo: AFP via Getty Images/TNS
China technology

Ant Group’s use of local GPUs, not Nvidia, cuts AI model training costs by 20%

The fintech affiliate of Alibaba said its Ling-Plus-Base model can be ‘effectively trained on lower-performance devices’.

Ant Group’s latest research into AI development places it among domestic firms such as DeepSeek and ByteDance in the search for more efficient ways to train and run models. Photo: Shutterstock
Banking & finance

Hong Kong set to fund Chinese start-ups’ ‘jaw-dropping’ innovations

China is at the beginning of a long innovation story, according to speakers at the HSBC Global Investment Summit.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek wows coders with more powerful open-source V3 model

The new version and DeepSeek V3 are both foundation models trained on vast data sets that can be applied in different use cases.

China technology

Opinion | China’s true talent in AI lies in making it safe to use

While the US remains caught in a computational race, China’s competitive advantage lies not in any LLM model but in AI-embedded ecosystems.

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A screen display inside a Pony.ai robotaxi in Nansha district, Guangzhou, in south China’s Guangdong province on March 11. Photo: Xinhua
Banking & finance

Hong Kong deepens push into AI, tech to boost its edge over Singapore: Paul Chan

Artificial intelligence is the future, as it has the potential to boost Hong Kong’s competitiveness, financial secretary says.

Financial Secretary Paul Chan at the HSBC Global Investment Summit on Tuesday. Photo: ISD
Banking & finance

Alibaba’s Tsai says some AI bets like excess data centres are speculative

‘People are talking literally about US$500 billion, several US$100 billion [projects]. I don’t think that is entirely necessary,’ Tsai says.

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Technology

Letters | What young humans can do that AI can’t

Readers discuss how the education system must adapt to the advent of generative AI, and the use of the p-value in determining statistical significance.

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