The Northern Metropolis is in the news almost every day. The big policy focus for the administration, it is determining a new future for Hong Kong. Part of the New Territories, which were dubbed “a land between” in the 1980s, the area was once little more than a rural leftover between urban Hong Kong and…
Top tech talent in China can expect lavish bonuses for 2025 as big tech firms from ByteDance to Tencent Holdings double down on efforts to retain and lure people with specialised skills in fields such as artificial intelligence. TikTok owner ByteDance expanded its bonus pool by 35 per cent from a year earlier, as well…
Limiting AI use in military applications and ensuring global AI governance could ease collaboration and dialogue between China and the US as they vie for influence over the transformative technology, according to experts at a forum in Hong Kong on Monday. Their remarks came as artificial intelligence is being increasingly adopted in the defence sector,…
If you read any of WIRED’s recent AI edition, you know that lots of people are spending lots of time talking about how the technology is revolutionizing pretty much everything—from coding to writing to accounting. You’ve also probably heard by now, from us or somebody else, that we might very well be in an economic…
The stock market is largely being propped up by a promise of AI that has yet to deliver—setting up what could be a disastrous bubble. But the AI land rush isn’t merely a risky gamble. Wall Street is staking the health of the markets—and that of the broader economy with it—on a bet against the…
(Bloomberg/Mark Gurman) — Apple Inc. projected a jump in sales over the holiday season after releasing new iPhones and worked to reassure investors concerned about a decline in revenue from China. Sales in the fiscal first quarter, which runs through December, will rise by 10% to 12%, Chief Financial Officer Kevan Parekh said during a…
China and Russia have deployed attractive women to the United States to seduce unwitting Silicon Valley tech executives as part of a “sex warfare” operation aimed at stealing American technology secrets, according to a report. Industry insiders told The Times of London that they have been approached by would-be honeypots — some of whom have…
China can learn from the United States when it comes to applying civilian innovations to the military, a Chinese geopolitical expert has said. In an article last week, Gu Jianyi, a researcher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, said China could consider developing a new industrial ecosystem inspired by successful US firms such as SpaceX, Palantir…
Silicon Valley, the heart of global innovation, has found itself at the centre of a new kind of cold war, one not fought with code or cyber weapons, but with charm, seduction, and manipulation. A report by The Times (UK) has revealed claims that Chinese and Russian operatives are using “sex warfare” to infiltrate America’s…
The United States first introduced the H1-B visa in 1990 under then-President George H.W. Bush. The visa was meant to bring specialised workers to the US to fill in for a domestic labour shortage. Over 3 decades later, the H1-B visa has transformed the US economy with thousands of skilled international workers joining every year….