HKEX has also entered a licensing agreement with E Fund Management to issue an exchange-traded fund in the mainland Chinese market based on the HKEX Tech 100 Index. Photo: Sun Yeung

    Hong Kong launches HKEX Tech 100 Index in pivot towards innovation-driven growth

    Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has launched its first equity index tracking Hong Kong-listed technology companies, underscoring the city’s ongoing shift from a market long dominated by property and finance towards innovation-driven growth. Unveiled on Tuesday, the HKEX Tech 100 Index tracks 100 large-cap and mid-cap companies spanning artificial intelligence, biotech and pharmaceuticals, electric vehicles…

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    HKEX has also entered a licensing agreement with E Fund Management to issue an exchange-traded fund in the mainland Chinese market based on the HKEX Tech 100 Index. Photo: Sun Yeung

      Hong Kong launches HKEX Tech 100 Index in pivot towards innovation-driven growth

      Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has launched its first equity index tracking Hong Kong-listed technology companies, underscoring the city’s ongoing shift from a market long dominated by property and finance towards innovation-driven growth. Unveiled on Tuesday, the HKEX Tech 100 Index tracks 100 large-cap and mid-cap companies spanning artificial intelligence, biotech and pharmaceuticals, electric vehicles…

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      Guangdong touts Huawei chips and HarmonyOS to outrun the shadow of the DeepSeek eclipse

      Guangdong touts Huawei chips and HarmonyOS to outrun the shadow of the DeepSeek eclipse

      Guangdong has named Huawei Technologies’ artificial intelligence chips and HarmonyOS operating system as flagship achievements in China’s drive for technological self-sufficiency. The push by China’s wealthiest province – whose gross domestic product is larger than that of South Korea – to highlight home-grown innovation came as local governments faced mounting peer pressure to support Beijing’s…

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      AI Radical to Accused Cult Leader

      AI Radical to Accused Cult Leader

      Z iz Lasota and Gwen Danielson had reached a stalemate. It was nighttime on the Caleb, the ancient steel-hulled tugboat where they had spent the last five months of 2017, anchored in the outer harbor of Pillar Point, 25 miles south of San Francisco. With their high cheekbones, dimpled chins, and penetrating gazes, the pair…

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      A V-BAT drone is positioned for testing in Frisco, Texas.

      Trump’s Focus on Drug War Means Big Business for Defense Startups

      Defense-tech companies and artificial-intelligence startups have found a vital new market in President Trump’s rapidly escalating drug war. Weapons and AI platforms that were designed for a future conflict with China or struggled to prove themselves on the Ukrainian battlefield have found a niche in the administration’s tech-enabled crackdown on drug trafficking. Drone and imaging…

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      This picture of an apparently heavily damaged item of clothing was generated using artificial intelligence. Photo: cqnews

        China consumers use AI to alter product photos, claim refunds for goods that appear damaged

        Fake photos generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are being misused to claim refunds from Chinese online shops, sparking moral and legal concerns. As China’s Double 11 shopping festival took place around November 11, several e-commerce shop owners revealed that they received AI-generated photos of damaged products from consumers attempting to seek refunds. Some people took…

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