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What did China’s tech entrepreneurs tell Xi Jinping at the symposium?
Ren, the face of China’s resilience against US hostilities in technology, told Xi that concerns had eased over China’s lack of home-grown chips and operating

Dennis Lo bets on blood to bare all, with tests that saved 10 million mums from the needle
In the first instalment of a series to mark the 10th anniversary of the Future Science Prize, Holly Chik and Shen Xinmei look at Professor

Outside In | Why isn’t Hong Kong a test bed for China’s green energy innovations?
The last time I wrestled directly with the playful, mysterious and dangerous world of chemistry was during my final days of school, when as a

Lenovo reshuffles leadership amid AI-driven growth and DeepSeek adoption
Lenovo Group, the world’s largest maker of personal computers, has reshuffled its board and named a new chief financial officer (CFO) after three quarters of

Alibaba investors hail e-commerce giant’s AI pivot as it plots major investment outlay
Alibaba’s Hong Kong-listed shares surged 15 per cent to close at HK$138.50 on Friday, following an 8 per cent gain overnight in New York, as

Fiscal support for tech breakthroughs a focus for Beijing this year, minister says
Finance Minister Lan Foan has emphasised that fiscal efforts to support China’s technological advancement are a government priority, as many analysts predict that Beijing will

Google to open its first physical stores in India, taking on Apple, sources say
Alphabet’s Google was close to deciding on locations in its key market of India where it would open its first physical retail stores outside the

Alibaba Cloud AI model Animate Anyone 2 simplifies making of lifelike character animation
Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud computing arm has introduced its updated artificial intelligence (AI) model, Animate Anyone 2, which the company touts as simplifying the animation

China’s ports adopt DeepSeek AI model to streamline operations, protect data
China’s home-grown technological innovations – like the DeepSeek large language model that has taken the artificial intelligence (AI) industry by storm – are enabling the

Alibaba to ramp up AI, cloud computing investments as quarterly profit surges 239%
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding saw profit surge 239 per cent cent in the December quarter to beat analysts’ estimates, as the company’s cloud

China approves RedNote’s AI translation along with 5 other models
The internet regulator in Shanghai has approved six more generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) services for public release, including a translation tool from RedNote, a Chinese

Former Huawei ‘genius youth’ recruit joins alma mater Nanjing University to research AI
A former recruit of Huawei Technologies’ “Genius Youth” programme joined his alma mater Nanjing University to pursue artificial intelligence (AI) research, in the latest example

Ant Group enters AI robotics sector to build China’s humanoid workforce
Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has ventured into the country’s booming humanoid robotics sector, according to a company statement and job postings. The recent move

Apple unveils US$599 iPhone 16e, a budget AI handset to compete with Huawei, Samsung
Apple launched on Wednesday a budget-minded phone with artificial intelligence (AI), the iPhone 16e, designed to win back mid-market customers at home and in crucial

Tech war: ex-Apple engineer returns to China to teach about semiconductors at alma mater
A Chinese engineer who worked on semiconductors at Apple has returned home to teach at his alma mater in Wuhan, capital of central Hubei province,

Alibaba opens first data centre in Mexico, ramping up AI infrastructure expansion
With the launch on Wednesday, Alibaba Cloud said it now had a global infrastructure network of 87 availability zones across 29 regions, strengthening its global

Haier seeks control of Shenzhen-listed robotics firm in US$343 million deal
Haier, one of China’s biggest home appliance makers, plans to take control of loss-making industrial robotics firm Step Electric as the country’s traditional manufacturers join

DBS, HSBC have best-performing mobile banking apps in Asia, according to a new report
Hong Kong and Singapore have the best performing mobile banking apps in Asia, a global study found, though they lag behind some Western counterparts that

Wilczek’s Multiverse | Quantum leaps? The good and bad news about the next big thing in computing
In the third instalment of his exclusive monthly series for the South China Morning Post, American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek discusses the

Tokenisation a ‘defining trend’ for Web3 in Hong Kong as city hosts major Consensus event
Hong Kong is intensifying its focus on tokenisation and stablecoins to bolster its Web3 industry, the financial services secretary said ahead of a major international

Opinion | How DeepSeek’s disruption could finally burst the US stock bubble
DeepSeek has unravelled the assumption that a few hyperscalers will dominate the artificial intelligence market, extracting payments from an AI-dependent global economy. The Chinese company’s

Chinese smartphone brands see rapid growth in Middle East, Southeast Asia
Chinese smartphone makers are gaining more ground in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, according to the latest figures by Canalys, as they ramped up

Huawei launches Mate XT in Malaysia to kick off trifold smartphone’s overseas roll-out
The event marked one of the company’s largest consumer product launches in a foreign country since its overseas smartphone business was hit hard by US

Tiger Brokers adopts DeepSeek AI as Chinese brokerages rush to capitalise on breakthrough
Tiger Brokers said on Tuesday it embedded DeepSeek’s model into its AI-powered chatbot, as brokerages and money managers race to capitalise on the Chinese start-up’s

My Take | DeepSeek could burst ‘peak China’ myth with AI-driven economic revival
There has been a popular narrative in recent years about China having “peaked” in economic power, with the world’s second-largest economy unlikely to overtake the
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