8 May 2025

Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled its first laptop that runs the company’s self-developed operating system, HarmonyOS, following the expiration of its Microsoft Windows licence for personal computers (PCs) in March. Stacked with artificial intelligence (AI) features, the laptop, which has not yet been named, operates HarmonyOS 5, also referred to as HarmonyOS Next, the latest […]

Alibaba Group Holding, JD.com and ByteDance’s Douyin are preparing their campaigns for 618, China’s second-largest online shopping festival, as major e-commerce players gear up for battle in a nationwide price war amid weak consumer spending. The three companies each announced they would start discounts next week for the event, which now spans weeks but retains

Public transport service providers and other concerns in Japan are introducing artificial intelligence to categorise and catalogue lost items and provide information on where to return them. Some 30 organisations have introduced a “lost-and-found platform”, developed by Tokyo-based information technology firm Find, at about 2,300 stations and other locations. They include the Sapporo City Transport

Beijing is allocating tens of millions of US dollars in subsidies to stimulate growth in the city’s artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain, using entirely domestic technologies, as China invests heavily in its technological self-reliance drive. The Yizhuang Development Zone, also known as the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, said on Wednesday it aimed to