Jang Young-jin, chairman of the Korea Trade Insurance Corp., delivers a lecture on “Survival Strategies for Korean Industry Amid a Global Crisis” at the Seoul Economic Daily’s Future Conference 2026, held at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul’s Jung district on the 17th. Photo by Cho Tae-hyung In January last year, China’s generative artificial intelligence model…
Synopsis DeepSeek said the new model is designed for greater capability, faster inference, higher throughput and scaling to larger models. Reuters Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Thursday launched DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, which the company said is the smallest model in its new architecture family, according to a statement. The release came as the company is starting…
Kazakhstan has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hong Kong’s transport authorities to establish a laboratory and discussed low-altitude economy initiatives to help manage traffic jams. Bakhtiyar Mukhametkaliyev, Kazakhstan’s vice-minister of artificial intelligence and digital development, told the South China Morning Post on Wednesday about discussions with the team of Hong Kong’s Secretary for Transport…
SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 27: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek app is displayed on an iPhone screen on January 27, 2025 in San Anselmo, California. Newly launched Chinese AI app DeepSeek has surged to number one in Apple’s App Store and has triggered a sell-off of U.S. tech stocks over concerns that Chinese…
As reported by the Financial Times, “Singapore Inc hopes its ability to access the most advanced AI models will help hold back a tide of investment managers leaving for Hong Kong.” According to the report, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s proposed tax cuts are contributing to an ongoing shift of investment firms and professionals…
When China’s DeepSeek sent shock waves through the technology world early last year, it raised a confronting question for America’s tech giants, could China build cutting-edge artificial intelligence for a fraction of the cost? More than a year on DeepSeek is no longer the only strong challenger. In recent weeks, Chinese AI developers Z.ai (formerly…
Model distillation, a long-established artificial intelligence (AI) training technique, has emerged as the latest flashpoint in the growing technology rivalry between the United States and China. While the method helps developers build smaller, cheaper AI models, US companies have accused some Chinese firms of using it to extract capabilities from proprietary AI systems without permission….
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…
Published on 17/07/2026 – 12:03 GMT+2 China’s President Xi Jinping used a major AI summit on Friday to push back against US technology restrictions, calling for artificial intelligence to be developed and governed as a global effort rather than dominated by any single country. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Speaking in Shanghai, Xi warned against what he called…
Mira Murati, former Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI, now CEO of Thinking Machines, speaks during The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Tech Live Conference in Laguna Beach, California on October 17, 2023. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Thinking Machines Lab released its…