23 March 2025

Tesla was granted approval in California to begin carrying passengers in its vehicles as Elon Musk’s company takes steps toward offering ride-hailing services. The California Public Utilities Commission said in an emailed statement Tuesday that it approved the electric-vehicle maker’s bid for what is known as a transportation charter-party carrier permit. That will allow Tesla […]

Elon Musk wielded a chainsaw on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the United States last month, dramatising his intent to slash US federal government bureaucracy as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), a Trump administration initiative. Yet he may well need dramatic measures himself to turn around Tesla’s increasingly precarious

Hong Kong is an attractive regional hub for mainland Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-ups looking for a bridgehead to expand into overseas markets, according to company executives at a technology-themed event on Wednesday. CloudWalk Technology, a Guangzhou-based AI company that started in 2015 as a vendor of facial recognition software, was looking into establishing an

Tencent Holdings is poised for “long-term growth” from its aggressive spending on artificial intelligence (AI) as China’s most valuable tech giant aligns its future with DeepSeek and in-house models, according to analysts. Tencent chairman and CEO Pony Ma Huateng said on Wednesday that he had talked with Liang Wenfeng, the founder of DeepSeek, and “admires”

Wingtech Technology, a Chinese supplier to Apple and other electronics makers, has agreed to spin off a major piece of its operations after US sanctions threaten to bring heavy losses. The company signed an agreement to sell its stake in five subsidiaries to Luxshare Precision Industry, according to a filing with the Shanghai Stock Exchange

Chinese household appliance giant Haier has introduced a front-loading washing machine capable of handling three separate loads simultaneously, a feature that has some dubbing it the “lazybones’ washing machine”. The novel design that has three separate drums on the front allows users to wash coats and lingerie separately. Many people in China have traditionally not