Jeffrey Epstein committed at least US$113,000 to American scholar Ben Goertzel – known for popularising the term “artificial general intelligence” – to help him secure at least HK$8.9 million in Hong Kong government grants at a top city university, a South China Morning Post investigation has found. The almost two-decade relationship between Epstein and computer…
Hong Kong must stay vigilant in times of peace and drive innovation in economic development, according to a prophecy drawn by the city’s top rural leader during an annual Lunar New Year ritual. Kenneth Lau Ip-keung, chairman of powerful rural body the Heung Yee Kuk, drew a “neutral” stick for Hong Kong at Che Kung…
SHANGHAI, Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Leveraging the solid foundation laid by its highly renowned 2025 edition, Hi & Fi Asia-China, Asia’s premier platform for health ingredients and food innovation, is delighted to announce the official launch of pre-registration for its 2026 edition. Scheduled to be held from 15-17 June 2026 at the National Exhibition…
On the last day of 2025, DeepSeek published a new technical paper, with founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng among the 19 co-authors, about “manifold-constrained hyper-connections” – a general framework for training artificial intelligence systems at scale, which suggested “promising directions for the evolution of foundational models”. That release was a fitting reminder to the world,…
China news correspondent, Lianhe Zaobao More than 50 years after Apollo, the US races back to the moon amid growing fears that China could beat it. What was once a symbol of exploration is now a high-stakes arena of strategic rivalry. Lianhe Zaobao’s correspondent Yush Chau finds out more. When American astronauts stepped onto the…
Hong Kong boasts the strongest institutional environment of any major financial hub but lags in growth and future readiness, according to a new index launched by New York University Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. The inaugural Financial Centres Competitiveness Index (FFCI), unveiled at Abu Dhabi Finance Week, ranked Hong Kong fourth overall, behind New York, London…
Meanwhile, Chinese companies are also accelerating their push in the sector, with major players including automotive brands such as BYD, Xiaomi and Chery. The 2025 Morgan Stanley Humanoid 100 list includes 35 Chinese companies, and among the 22 companies capable of full-system robot manufacturing, nine are from China, demonstrating strong competitive potential. Source link
Before Franz Kafka died in 1924, he had a simple wish for his friend and literary executor Max Brod: burn all of Kafka’s unpublished writing and papers. Fortunately for the rest of the world, Brod largely ignored what Kafka had said, which is why today we have works like The Castle and The Trial, not…
Have you ever been in or traveling through an area where there is no or low traditional cell service and thought, “What if I had an emergency and needed to call 911?”Now, because of a well-known cell service provider’s connection to a popular network of satellites, there’s a solution when you have an emergency and…
A typical Walmart store manager might oversee a staff of 350 people, who they are frequently hiring, firing and promoting. One thing they don’t want to worry about is figuring out how to make all those changes in the retailer’s HR system. So Walmart built an AI agent that does the job for them. “All…