Xiaomi is reluctant to change a working formula. In February last year, its well-rounded Xiaomi 14 compact flagship got favourable reviews. So perhaps it’s no surprise that when you first pick up the new Xiaomi 15, officially launched in Barcelona, Spain, on March 2 you think you’re holding last year’s phone. Design and hardware The […]
An insider account being billed as an “explosive dispatch” about “seven critical years” at Facebook/ Meta will be published next week. Careless People is scheduled to appear on March 11. The memoir is written by Meta’s former director of global public policy, Sarah Wynn-Williams, who left what was then Facebook in 2018. “Careless People takes
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General-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) agent Manus, which was developed by a Chinese team, faces doubts about its technological capabilities, as very few people were able to test the product owing to an apparent shortage of server capacity after a surge in popularity. While Manus has gained attention for its claimed ability to handle complex tasks,
In the first two months of the year, nearly 2 billion yuan (US$276 million) in new funding went to humanoid robot developers across 20 deals, up from 1.2 billion yuan generated from 4 transactions a year earlier, according to data from ITJuzi, which tracks China’s venture-capital market. China is also home to 45 per cent
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When Bonnie Chan Yiting was in Davos six weeks ago for the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual confab, the Swiss ski resort was abuzz with a groundbreaking app that a little-known artificial intelligence (AI) start-up had released half a world away in China. Hangzhou-based DeepSeek rolled out its namesake app on January 20, providing its
