20 March 2025

The race to put humanoid robots into mass production has intensified over the past week, as companies in both the US and China made a string of announcements that convinced analysts the technology is maturing more rapidly than many expected. Investor excitement has been building in recent months about the potential of humanoids – artificial […]

Nvidia will open a quantum computing research lab in Boston, where it plans to collaborate with scientists from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Thursday. Huang made the announcement at Nvidia’s annual software developer conference in San Jose, California, where Nvidia held a day of events focused

China’s home-grown artificial intelligence (AI) models are rapidly closing their performance gap with leading US rivals while offering significantly lower prices, according to benchmarking and consultancy firm Artificial Analysis. DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning model developed by China’s most prominent AI start-up, scored 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, making it the third most intelligent AI

Huawei Technologies on Thursday launched a new foldable smartphone running on its home-grown HarmonyOS operating system, as the tech giant builds on the revival of its lucrative handset business despite US sanctions. The Pura X, under its premium Pura brand, is a vertically-folded device that features a bigger 6.3-inch screen, with a 16:10 aspect ratio

Microsoft, the biggest backer of Sam Altman’s OpenAI, and BlackRock, which has an executive on the artificial intelligence start-up’s board, are joining forces with one of its chief rivals. Abu Dhabi’s MGX, Microsoft and BlackRock said Elon Musk’s xAI is joining their effort to build US$30 billion worth of data centres and other artificial intelligence

SoftBank Group said on Wednesday it would acquire Ampere Computing, a US chip start-up founded by the former president of Intel that is increasingly focused on artificial intelligence, in a US$6.5 billion all-cash deal. Ampere makes data centre central processing unit (CPU) chips based on a computing architecture from Arm Holdings that are used by