A Chinese engineer who worked on semiconductors at Apple has returned home to teach at his alma mater in Wuhan, capital of central Hubei province, joining a wave of scientists and other tech talent to leave the United States. Wang Huanyu – who worked as an implementation engineer for central processing units at Apple’s US…
With Hong Kong so focused on attracting top talent and investors, a shortage of other human resources and services can slip under the radar – until gripes about it go public. A case in point is to be found in a Consumer Council report that complaints topped 40,000 for the first time last year, driven…
City governments across China have launched online services featuring DeepSeek while local officials studied the AI start-up, which has emerged as a challenger to US rivals such as OpenAI. Nanfang Daily, a Communist Party-affiliated newspaper in the southern province of Guangdong, reported on Sunday that senior officials in the city of Zhuhai had “watched reports…
WMDoll, one of China’s biggest sex doll makers, expects to record a 30 per cent jump in sales this year, as the company’s adoption of open-source generative artificial intelligence (AI) models helped improve the user experience of its products. Feedback received by WMDoll has been generally good after integrating large language models (LLMs) – the…
China’s northern port city of Tianjin has become the latest local government to adopt the Chinese artificial intelligence system DeepSeek. The Tianjin AI Computing Centre, which will host the system, is a collaboration between Hebei district and Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies launched in March 2023. It is the first facility in the wider region…
Chinese start-up Manycore Tech, operator of the world’s largest spatial design platform, has applied for an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong, three years after its attempt to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange lapsed. Manycore’s IPO filing, jointly sponsored by JPMorgan and CCB International, did not provide the amount it intends to raise…
Details of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Marathon, a test event for this year’s National Games, were released on Thursday evening, revealing that Shenzhen Bay Bridge will be closed while up to 100 runners take part in the race later this month. The test event, which is to be organised by the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government, will…
Hong Kong’s leader has tasked his senior officials with following up on directions given by Beijing’s point man on city affairs, urging his ministers during a meeting to further cross-border cooperation through large-scale development projects. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu held the meeting on Thursday morning, two days after he returned from the Asian Winter…
Hong Kong’s financial regulators have pledged to ease listing requirements for mainland Chinese companies, as they eye the city’s stock market as a source of funding to support their global ambitions. The market watchdog and the bourse operator would unveil proposed revisions later this year, aiming to lower the fundraising threshold, optimise market structure and…
Beijing is concerned that Hong Kong may need help from mainland Chinese companies in developing large cross-border projects amid a public deficit, analysts have said, after its point man on city affairs met local officials ahead of the annual budget address. Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO), on Sunday…