Tech giant Google has officially introduced a mobile version of its Gemini AI chatbot to Hong Kong users, with the service swiftly topping Apple’s app store chart. The roll-out on Thursday followed Google’s announcement last week that it would gradually introduce its generative AI services to Hong Kong, starting with Gemini web services before launching…
Hong Kong’s finance chief has likened the powerful AI agent OpenClaw to an efficient “digital employee”, saying it should not be dismissed but rather improved to address security risk concerns. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po’s remarks on Monday followed the Digital Policy Office’s recent advisory urging government departments to avoid installing OpenClaw or its variants…
Tech giant Google will gradually roll out its generative AI services to all users in Hong Kong starting with the Gemini web app before introducing a mobile version for the chatbot and virtual assistant. The move is expected to eliminate the barriers that previously forced many residents to use virtual private networks (VPNs) or third-party…
Joe*, a 20-year-old Hong Kong student, began seeking emotional support for dating advice, family relationships and stress management a few months ago to ease his anxieties. He asked questions during his commute to school, while studying in the evening and even when he could not sleep late at night. His go-to chatbot: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is at a very Chinese time in its life. Recent moves from Chinese AI labs are throwing the dominance of American “frontier labs” such as Google and OpenAI into question. Last week ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, released an AI video-generating tool called Seedance 2.0 which produces high-quality film-like clips from text…
The fight between the US government and Anthropic is no longer a contract negotiation dispute. It is a clash over killer robots and mass surveillance – and over who decides how artificial intelligence is used in war. At the centre is a blunt question: can a private AI company refuse to let its systems be…
A standoff between one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent artificial intelligence companies and the United States military came to a head this week, with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refusing to bend to Pentagon pressure over how its AI technology can be used in national security operations, essentially for AI-guided weapons imn war. Anthropic CEO Dario…
A new front has opened in the global AI race, and this time the issue is not innovation but theft, national security and geopolitical rivalry. Anthropic has publicly accused three Chinese AI firms –DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax — of orchestrating what it described as coordinated “distillation attacks” on its flagship model, Claude. The claims…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is eroding the very capabilities young professionals need to remain valuable in a machine-automated era. That is the real challenge facing graduates entering the workforce. It is not simply a case of AI destroying jobs – though it is – but that it is undermining our cognitive and interpersonal skills. The numbers…
The US military used Claude, the artificial intelligence model developed by a San Francisco-based company, Anthropic, in the operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Many AI companies are building custom tools for the US military, most of which are available only on unclassified networks typically used…