00:10 Speaker A Can China threaten the US dominance in AI? Well, the Shanghai composite, China’s mainland benchmark rose 3% in September alone. It’s longest monthly rally since 2017. Why? Well, Asian tech stocks have been on the rise. They’ve been benefiting from optimism around companies linked to AI developments. But is this optimism warranted?…
Regardless of how trade talks go, the US-China tech rivalry isn’t going away. From each side’s perspective, maintaining a lead in futuristic technologies matters significantly for economic growth and national power. Now, we’re entering round two. The first round was mostly defined by US export controls aimed at slowing China’s development of advanced technologies. These…
As Super Typhoon Ragasa barrels down on southern China, the country’s tech and manufacturing hub has gone into emergency lockdown mode. With the highest alert level declared, officials in Shenzhen – the southern manufacturing powerhouse with a reputation as China’s Silicon Valley – sounded the alarm for “wartime readiness”. Residents responded by scrambling to stockpile…
Seniors in Sha Xian country using Yuanbao’s translation function to make foreigner friends while preserving old memories. A weibo user In community centers across rural Sha Xian County in Fujian province, the familiar clack of mahjong tiles now mingles with something far less traditional: seniors huddled around smartphones, learning the intricacies of artificial intelligence. Videos…
Nvidia’s RTX6000D, its newest artificial intelligence chip tailored for the Chinese market, has seen only lukewarm demand with some major tech firms opting not to place orders, two people with knowledge of procurement discussions said. The RTX6000D, designed mainly for AI inference tasks, is seen as expensive for what it does, according to the two…
Hong Kong could struggle with enforcing regulations on labelling artificial intelligence-generated content on social media platforms, experts have said, after mainland China rolled out a new law this week to combat misinformation, deepfakes and copyright issues. Experts told the Post that Hong Kong’s market was too small to adopt an independent set of laws to…
Hong Kong could struggle with enforcing regulations on labelling artificial intelligence-generated content on social media platforms, experts have said, after mainland China rolled out a new law this week to combat misinformation, deepfakes and copyright issues. Experts told the Post that Hong Kong’s market was too small to adopt an independent set of laws to…
HANGZHOU, China The tech war between the US and China continues as Chinese firms Tencent and Deep Robotics produce artificial intelligence (AI) and robot technologies that rival those of their American counterparts, becoming viable alternatives in the global tech scene. The fierce and long-standing US–China rivalry is not only diplomatic or via trade but also…
China is making progress in artificial intelligence “agentic frameworks”, the tools required to make AI agents, as the country’s tech giants begin to take on US players such as AutoGen and OpenAI Swarm. Tencent Holdings was the latest to join the fray after the Shenzhen-based company open-sourced its new Youtu-Agent agentic framework on Tuesday. Developed…
Call them China’s Sputnik moments: DeepSeek. BYD and Xiaomi cars. A robot Olympics in Beijing. Huawei’s resurgence. And Labubu. Labubu did its job. The little gremlin doll made it clear that a brand being from China is no longer shorthand for cheap. Pop Mart has built trust to such an extent that company management is…