21 March 2025

The US Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it is investigating nine Chinese companies including Huawei Technologies, ZTE, Hangzhou Hikvision, China Mobile, China Telecom and others to determine if they are seeking to evade US restrictions. The Chinese companies have all been placed on the FCC’s “Covered List” that deems specific communications equipment and services […]

Baidu, China’s leading internet search firm and artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse, has denied that the company breached user privacy after an incident involving the teenage daughter of a senior executive exposed the personal information of another netizen, triggering outrage online. In a statement released on Wednesday night, the Beijing-based company stressed its “zero tolerance” policy

TikTok owner ByteDance, which has invested heavily in artificial intelligence (AI), has unveiled a new system that claims to improve on the work done by DeepSeek in training AI reasoning models. DAPO, or Decoupled Clip and Dynamic Sampling Policy Optimisation, is a scalable reinforcement learning algorithm that helps a large language model (LLM) achieve better

Love and Deepspace, a popular mobile game, has captured the hearts of many young women in China and beyond, with its lifelike 3D characters, engaging storylines and futuristic romance scenarios. In one example of such devotion, players gathered at a Beijing shopping centre on March 1 to celebrate the birthday of their virtual “boyfriend” –

Apple is undergoing a rare shake-up of its executive ranks, aiming to get its artificial intelligence efforts back on track after months of delays and stumbles, according to people familiar with the situation. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has lost confidence in the ability of AI head John Giannandrea to execute on product development, so