Joe*, a 20-year-old Hong Kong student, began seeking emotional support for dating advice, family relationships and stress management a few months ago to ease his anxieties. He asked questions during his commute to school, while studying in the evening and even when he could not sleep late at night. His go-to chatbot: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which…
Keith Li King-wah’s business once thrived during the 2010s. In a crowded field of more than 100 rivals, his programming consultancy, Innopage, easily secured contracts worth hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars to develop basic digital tools, such as a mortgage calculator, for corporations and government agencies. But those easy-money days are gone. The…
Days after OpenAI hired Peter Steinberger, the creator of viral AI agent framework OpenClaw, China has restricted state-run enterprises and government agencies from running OpenClaw AI apps on office computers. According to a Bloomberg report, government agencies and state-owned enterprises, including the largest banks, have received notices warning them against installing OpenClaw software on office…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will establish a task force to accelerate development of its foundation AI models, following the resignation of Qwen AI division head Lin Junyang. According to a report by the news agency Reuters, the company has sent a letter to employees this week stating that the task force will coordinate AI efforts…
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said that the company’s rush to forge a deal with the Defense Department — following a clash between the Pentagon and AI rival Anthropic PBC — looked “opportunistic and sloppy.” In his post, Sam Altman said his company was hasty in making its deal with the Pentagon. (AFP file…
OpenAI has reached a deal on deploying its AI models in the classified network of the US Department of War, the firm’s CEO Sam Altman said in a post on Saturday. The development comes amid the ongoing tussle between the Pentagon and AI startup Anthropic AI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made the announcement through X…
South Korean retail investors, known for their aggressive trading style, are ramping up exposure to Chinese artificial intelligence-related stocks, even as their home market ranks among the world’s top performers. Data from SEIBro, a portal operated by the Korea Securities Depository, showed that South Korean retail investors bought US$507 million worth of Hong Kong-listed shares…
A new front has opened in the global AI race, and this time the issue is not innovation but theft, national security and geopolitical rivalry. Anthropic has publicly accused three Chinese AI firms –DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax — of orchestrating what it described as coordinated “distillation attacks” on its flagship model, Claude. The claims…
DeepSeek R1 model debuted in January last year. After its launch, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared a post on X calling the AI model “impressive”, adding “it’s legit invigorating to have a new competitor”. A year later, the ChatGPT-maker is accusing the Chinese AI model of cheating. In a letter to the US House Select…
Having earned a reputation for ditching CGI in favor of practical effects in his movies, Christopher Nolan seems to harbor a similarly skeptical opinion about AI in the entertainment industry, citing Disney’s deal with OpenAI. The visionary filmmaker isn’t opposed to integrating artificial intelligence in movies. Yet, he has shared certain reservations regarding the technology…