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When Bonnie Chan Yiting was in Davos six weeks ago for the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual confab, the Swiss ski resort was abuzz with a groundbreaking app that a little-known artificial intelligence (AI) start-up had released half a world away in China. Hangzhou-based DeepSeek rolled out its namesake app on January 20, providing its […]

The Trump administration is weighing a ban on Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek from US government devices over national security concerns, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. US officials are worried about DeepSeek’s handling of user data, which the company says it stores in servers located in China, according to The Wall Street

Shenzhen-based Tencent, which runs the world’s largest video-gaming business by revenue and China’s biggest social-media network, made the new model widely available on Thursday through online developer platforms like GitHub and HuggingFace. Users can also add lip-synched voice to their videos as well as background sound effects, according to Tencent. In a demonstration video released

US President Donald Trump’s creation of a cryptocurrency reserve shortly before headlining a White House summit on the popular digital asset will get global attention if the reserve grows big enough to affect trading or market prices, but China already has safeguards against any potential impact, analysts said. On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order

Chinese internet and video-gaming giant NetEase is shutting down one of its public cloud computing services amid intense competition in a crowded market. The Hangzhou-based company on Friday informed its corporate clients that its public cloud service would be taken offline on April 7, citing a “business strategy adjustment”. Clients with unused credits in their

04:38 Top chef in Hong Kong joins hands with local food tech pioneers to make dining sustainable Top chef in Hong Kong joins hands with local food tech pioneers to make dining sustainable Today’s advanced food production methods allow people to access a larger variety of produce from around the world, but this has also

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm iFlyTek was planning to expand its European business as trade tensions rise between the United States and China, vice-president Vincent Zhan said. “The US and China trade war has some impact for us,” Zhan said in an interview on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week,

US President Donald Trump said he would “probably” extend the deadline for the sale for Chinese-owned social video app TikTok if a deal is not reached by April 5. Trump said Thursday there was “a lot of interest” in TikTok and that “right now we have at least another month, so we don’t need an

Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com saw its December-quarter profit nearly triple from a year earlier on the back of increased consumer spending in the world’s second-largest economy. The Beijing-based company on Thursday reported a better-than-expected profit of 9.9 billion yuan (US$1.4 billion) in the fourth quarter, up from 3.4 billion yuan in the year-earlier period. Revenue

ASML Holding, the world’s top supplier of advanced chipmaking equipment caught in the US-China tech rivalry, will build a “reuse and repair” centre in Beijing this year, showing its commitment to the world’s second-largest economy despite pressure from Washington. The Dutch firm, which has been unable to sell its extreme ultraviolet lithography systems to its