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…
A veteran CIA operative sent to Abu Dhabi to determine whether the United Arab Emirates’ leading artificial intelligence company could be trusted with advanced American technology ultimately helped the Gulf state address Washington’s concerns over its ties to China, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Jonny Gannon was assigned to the UAE in 2023…
Mainstream media, particularly in Hong Kong, have historically been conservative in their research and development spending. Media executives prefer to shop for off-the-shelf solutions, treating technology as back-office support rather than a core growth engine. This mode of operation now faces an existential challenge amid the explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI), large language models…
In the world of artificial intelligence, a token is the smallest unit of information processed by an AI model. When a user asks ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, or Doubao a question, the system does not read sentences like a human. It breaks words down to tiny pieces called tokens. These are the building blocks that allow…
OpenAI and the White House did not immediately respond OpenAI has discussed giving a 5% stake to the US government, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The proposed arrangement would involve other US AI companies handing over a similar stake to the government, the report said, adding that it was not clear if the other…
Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has launched a data privacy academy as part of efforts to align with the national strategy of developing the city into an international high-calibre talent hub. Announcing the news at a summit to mark the 30th anniversary of the watchdog on Tuesday, Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Ada Chung Lai-ling said…
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…
Hong Kong’s initial public offering (IPO) market has raised more than HK$140 billion (US$17.87 billion) as of April, maintaining its global lead, the city’s financial chief has said, while indicating a renewed push to develop gold trading amid rising demand for risk diversification. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said on Sunday that Hong Kong remained…