A cluster comprising Hong Kong and two mainland Chinese cities has been ranked the world’s top innovation hub for the second consecutive year by a United Nations body. The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou cluster retained its crown in the 2026 Global Innovation Index (GII) released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on Tuesday. Tokyo-Yokohama, San Jose-San…
News tech Google Engineer Lands In Jail For Stealing AI Chip Secrets For China Powered by: Last Updated:September 03, 2026, 13:29 IST Former Google engineer Linwei Ding has been sentenced to nearly a year in prison for stealing confidential AI chip technology and passing it to Chinese firms. Linwei Ding was sentenced to 12 months…
Free courses coordinated by the Hong Kong government will leverage the expertise of tech giants such as Google and Microsoft to help boost the adoption of AI by businesses for content creation, data analysis and workflow efficiency. The Hong Kong Productivity Council on Thursday announced the launch of the programme targeting industries such as education,…
Good morning, unless you’re a SpaceX shareholder. The company’s stock closed under $150 yesterday, its first day in the Nasdaq 100, for the first time since its June 12 IPO, possibly imperiling Elon Musk’s title as the world’s first trillionaire. Who cares, right? Still, there are takeaways even if SPCX isn’t in your portfolio. First:…
In the second of a two-part series on the economy as Hong Kong marks 29 years since its return to Chinese rule, Lo Hoi Ying and Leopold Chen look at the city’s efforts at closer integration with the nation and the opportunities and obstacles it presents. Part one can be found here. A question from…
“When we graduate, what can we do?” As a philosophy professor, questions like this – about employability – often crop up in my conversations with students. Indeed, with youth unemployment on the Chinese mainland standing at almost 17 per cent, and intense competition among those seeking employment, it is no wonder that the priority for…
Good morning. Fortune’s newest Most Powerful Women list is out and there are some familiar tech faces on it, including AMD’s Lisa Su, Alphabet’s Ruth Porat, Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou, and Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei. Among this year’s notably ascendant? Meta’s new president Dina Powell McCormick, who leaps 19 spots to No. 58. As colleague Ellie Austin…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A former CIA officer told senators Wednesday that a Google engineer who stole cutting-edge AI secrets for China went on to use the technology to build a company. The testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee comes as lawmakers warn of growing national security threats tied to Chinese…
I’ve yet to meet a parent who wished their child had more screen time. Though just how far the problem can go was laid bare in the recent case of KGM against Meta and Google in a US court. The 20-year-old plaintiff, KGM, sued the owners of Instagram and YouTube, claiming that her extensive use…
A humanoid version of Olaf, the snowman from Frozen, has emerged as an example of how global collaboration is shaping the robotics industry. However, this robot also highlights China’s growing role in the sector’s supply chain. Demonstrated by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in March, the robot combines Nvidia’s and Google‘s artificial intelligence systems with Disney’s…