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Franz Kafka died in 1924, he had a simple wish for his friend and literary executor Max Brod: burn all of Kafka’s unpublished writing and papers.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…
The climate conformity caucus is breaking up at long last, and the latest evidence is a change of mind by none other than Bill Gates. The Microsoft billionaire turned liberal philanthropist now says the “doomsday view” about the climate is wrong, and “it’s diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to…
As the global AI race heats up, US chipmakers are ramping up spending while China’s tech giants race to overcome sanctions with a self-sufficiency playbook — two divergent strategies chasing the same prize. Which path will define the future of artificial intelligence? Source link
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain China recently announced that it was putting new controls on the export of rare earth elements, sparking a new round in the country’s ongoing trade war with the US. Donald Trump responded by threatening to ramp up tariffs on Chinese goods by a further 100%. This will all be under discussion…