Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi service has racked up 20,000 kilometres of “safe driving” in Hong Kong road tests, the company said on Saturday, as the city expands driverless vehicle trial areas in efforts to develop the sector. The mileage was completed during trials in Hong Kong’s Northern Lantau and Tung Chung areas since receiving the…
In July 2025, the Trump administration paused export controls on advanced AI chips to China in an effort to restart trade talks. The decision drew criticism from national security circles concerned about China’s expanding tech dominance. Yet a quieter and more enduring pipeline of technological transfer remains largely overlooked: America’s elite universities. Institutions such as…
Concert tickets and electronics are among the most common products used in trading scams on online marketplace Carousell, according to the platform, which has rolled out new measures that it has said will better protect users in Hong Kong. Randy Kuo, Carousell’s senior business manager, said the company had identified five of the most common…
When Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek debuted a chatbot that it said rivaled the best the United States had to offer, and at a fraction of the cost, venture capitalist Marc Andreesen called it “AI’s Sputnik moment.” Seven months later, it appears DeepSeek needs some American rocket power to get its AI Sputnik off the…
Will blocking China from accessing relatively high-performing AI chips help the U.S. maintain global AI leadership? Perhaps counterintuitively, the answer is no. Starving China’s supply of U.S.-designed AI chips will have the opposite effect, as it will push China to more effectively develop and deploy its own AI chip capacity and ecosystem. This, in turn,…
When McLean, Virginia native Sophia Kianni and her roommate Phoebe Gates (yes, that Gates) asked their classmates at Stanford University if they shopped secondhand, they were shocked to see only two people raise their hands. “We asked them ‘Why?’” Kianni recalled, “And a lot of them were like, ‘I don’t know what resale platforms exist.’”…
Dr. Joel Bervell, a physician known to his hundreds of thousands of followers on social media as the “Medical Mythbuster,” has built a reputation for debunking false health claims online. Earlier this year, some of those followers alerted him to a video on another account featuring a man who looked exactly like him. The face…
Media personality and entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary says President Donald Trump‘s deal allowing NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NASDAQ:AMD) to sell semiconductor chips in China under a government revenue-sharing plan is mutually beneficial. The controversial deal allows both companies to sell their advanced AI chips, the H20 and MI308, to the Chinese market…
How AI doctors are flooding the internet with false health advice – CBS News Watch CBS News Dr. Celine Gounder joins “CBS Mornings Plus” to discuss how AI-generated deepfakes are impersonating doctors and spreading misinformation online. Source link
We’ve all seen what artificial intelligence can do on our screens: generate art, carry out conversations and help with written tasks. Soon, AI will be doing more in the physical world. Gartner, a research and advisory firm, estimates that by 2030, 80% of Americans will interact daily — in some way — with autonomous, AI-powered robots. …