23 February 2025

US House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Sunday demanded EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera clarify how she enforces the European Union’s rules reining in Big Tech, saying they appear to target US companies. The request came two days after US President Donald Trump signed a memorandum warning that his administration would scrutinise the EU’s Digital

Yu Renrong, the only semiconductor executive to attend a symposium hosted by Xi Jinping with other Chinese entrepreneurs earlier this week, has quickly become the face of the nation’s chipmakers. In a video released by the mainland’s state broadcaster CCTV, the 58-year-old founder of Shanghai-listed Will Semiconductor – wearing a black coat – was seen

Microsoft on Wednesday announced its first quantum computing chip, a major step in the company’s effort to produce devices that might someday solve problems beyond the reach of modern computers. The company said its Majorana 1 chip harnessed 8 qubits, the building blocks of quantum computing, on a sticky-note-sized piece of hardware it figured could

The Shenzhen-based social-media and video-gaming powerhouse recently incorporated several apps – including QQ Browser, keyboard tool Sogou Pinyin and learning assistant Ima – into the firm’s Cloud & Smart Industries Group (CSIG), from their previous home at the Platform & Content Group, according to a report by Chinese digital media outlet The Paper. That followed

Affordable cancer screening may be available to Hong Kong residents within three years, as advances in artificial intelligence (AI) make the early detection of malignant tumours easier and faster, according to the creator of a pioneering prenatal test for Down syndrome. AI helps researchers recognise patterns in the gene fragments they find in blood plasma,