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Hong Kong residents’ willingness in taking the latest Covid-19 vaccine is lower than in Singapore, but higher compared with other Asian markets, according to a new survey by US pharmaceutical giant Moderna, which called on vulnerable groups to get inoculated. Moderna found 52 per cent of Hong Kong respondents said they were willing to get […]

The AI paper, “Visual Autoregressive Modelling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction”, examined a unique approach to generating images at a faster speed with better quality and scalability. The award is expected to be given at the conference in Vancouver, Canada, from December 10 to 15. It was one of the more than 50 research

TikTok tripled its US shopping sales to more than US$100 million on Black Friday, a sign of the app’s growing popularity despite a looming ban. TikTok Shop, the app’s e-commerce feature, also drew a 165 per cent annual increase in shoppers for the two days between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the company said. There

Bitcoin rose above US$100,000 for the first time after digital-asset proponent Paul Atkins was selected by US president-elect Donald Trump to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission. The world’s largest cryptocurrency was last up 3 per cent at US$101,000, following a more than 40 per cent advance since Trump’s November 5 election victory. Trump has

Chinese selfie app operator Meitu, one of a few Hong Kong-listed companies to publicly disclose crypto investments, said it has sold all of its cryptocurrency holdings, netting nearly US$80 million just ahead of bitcoin’s price surge past US$100,000. As of December 4, Meitu had sold its crypto portfolio that included 940 units of bitcoin and

OpenAI is partnering with Anduril Industries to incorporate its artificial intelligence (AI) technology into the weapons maker’s anti-drone systems, marking the ChatGPT creator’s most significant push yet into the defence sector. Anduril will lean on OpenAI’s technology to better detect and respond to unmanned “aerial threats”, largely drones, which have become a central part of

Popular budget-shopping platforms Temu and Shein have suspended operations in Vietnam, as they await approval from authorities to restart their local services. The country’s Ministry of Industry and Trade ordered Temu, owned by Chinese e-commerce giant PDD Holdings, to halt its business after the platform failed to complete the required business registration process by the

Beijing-based search and artificial intelligence (AI) giant Baidu, which was the first to launch a ChatGPT alternative in China, has rolled out a new tool in partnership with the country’s most popular political study app. The AI assistant, launched Wednesday on Baidu’s Ernie Bot platform, is a partnership with Xuexi Qiangguo, the official app for

Delegates at a Chinese semiconductor conference in Shanghai have called for “global cooperation”, sending a conciliatory message at a time when Washington and Beijing are intensifying a chip war. At the Global Semiconductor Market Summit on Thursday, one of China’s first major chip industry gatherings since the Biden administration imposed new export restrictions, speakers largely

At NeurIPS to be held in Vancouver, Canada, from December 10 to 15, TikTok parent ByteDance, Alibaba advertising unit Alimama and video-gaming giant Tencent are set to host various events on the sidelines of the conference, according to company notices. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. By 2030, demand in China for professionals skilled