31 July 2025

Hong Kong-based OSL Group, the city’s first listed and licensed virtual-asset trading platform, sees optimism rise in the local market as the stablecoin law comes into effect this Friday. That assessment was made by Gary Tiu, executive director and head of regulatory affairs at OSL, at a symposium on Thursday about Hong Kong’s stablecoin era. […]

A research paper co-authored by Liang Wenfeng, founder of Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek, was honoured with the best paper award at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) conference in Vienna, Austria, widely recognised as the premier global conference for AI researchers. The paper, titled “Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention,” was

A solid run for Hong Kong stocks showed signs of slowing, as the city’s benchmark headed for a two-week low after the US Federal Reserve appeared resistant to an imminent interest rate cut and China’s manufacturing sector shrank unexpectedly. The Hang Seng Index fell 1.1 per cent to 24,906.39 at the noon break on Thursday,