When the leaders of major US tech groups all echoed calls to “slow the pace” of artificial intelligence development, the underlying message targeted a specific and, in their view, uncontained threat: China. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issued a blunt assessment that a “Chinese lead in AI would pose great danger for the United States and…
As we observe World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10, the global community reflects on a sobering reality: suicide remains a leading cause of death among young people. Every year, more than 720,000 people die by suicide – each life a story cut short, a family shattered, a community left to grapple with unbearable loss….
More than 70 per cent of Hong Kong working professionals use artificial intelligence (AI) tools on a daily or weekly basis, more than double the global average, but junior staff also harbour deeper anxiety over job security amid its growing adoption, a survey has found. About 72.7 per cent of respondents said they used AI…
Three years ago, I warned in these pages that the greatest existential threat to humanity might not emerge from a stray asteroid or a cosmic cataclysm but from uncontrolled artificial intelligence (AI). Today, the trajectory towards an AI Armageddon has not merely accelerated, it has violently careered off the rails of human oversight. The academic…
Setting a timer to take a short break after every 25 minutes of study, compiling a “mistakes booklet” to learn from past errors and using artificial intelligence to boost English skills are among the strategies used by top scorers in this year’s university entrance exam in Hong Kong. However, some of the 24 high achievers…
Add ThinkChina as a preferred source Technicians assemble humanoid robots at the Lingyi iTech Guangdong Co. Embodied Intelligence Super Factory facility in Beijing, China, on 29 May 2026. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg) The eminent scientist and sinologist Joseph Needham famously formulated two questions on Chinese science and technology (S&T) in his 1969 book The Great Titration: Science and…
In the world of artificial intelligence, a token is the smallest unit of information processed by an AI model. When a user asks ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, or Doubao a question, the system does not read sentences like a human. It breaks words down to tiny pieces called tokens. These are the building blocks that allow…
Two things happened last week that give us a much clearer picture of what the world is going to be like from now on. First, Iran asserted its control of the Strait of Hormuz by turning back two ships that didn’t take the correct route and second, a Chinese company released an AI model that…
Most of my time as a writer is spent bemoaning the current state of college football or breaking down obscure scenes from “The Sopranos” that no one has thought about for 20 years, but occasionally I like to stray from my lanes and venture into some weird territory. One vertical I have found myself occupying…
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…