20 February 2025

A former recruit of Huawei Technologies’ “Genius Youth” programme joined his alma mater Nanjing University to pursue artificial intelligence (AI) research, in the latest example of talent flows between China’s corporate and academic spheres. Xu Ke, who had been a researcher at Huawei’s cloud computing unit since 2021, recently joined the School of Intelligence Science […]

Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has ventured into the country’s booming humanoid robotics sector, according to a company statement and job postings. The recent move by Ant, an affiliate of South China Morning Post owner Alibaba Group Holding, comes as Chinese tech giants are investing heavily into the humanoid-robot supply chain, hoping that the technology

Apple launched on Wednesday a budget-minded phone with artificial intelligence (AI), the iPhone 16e, designed to win back mid-market customers at home and in crucial growth markets China and India. The new phone, which drops the SE naming convention for Apple’s budget series, will take on popular Android smartphones at a time when rivals Samsung