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SCMP TechAsiaNew reality for China’s entertainment sector as AI drama goes prime time From low-quality “slop” such as soap operas starring humanlike cats and dating shows featuring anthropomorphic fruit, to increasingly slick productions realistic enough to pass for live action, artificial intelligence-ge
SCMP TechAsiaTalk is growing of a Tesla-SpaceX merger. Will geopolitics throw a spanner in the works? One by one, Tesla Model Y Ls roll out of the company’s end-of-line inspection bays, gleaming in black, white and gold. They are a mix of left-hand and right-hand drive – one of many signs the electric vehicles (EVs) prod
SCMP TechAsiaWhat Sputnik couldn’t do to American science, Beijing has The US government owns 9.9 per cent of Intel, converted out of US Chips Act grants, alongside a golden share in US Steel, US$400 million in the rare earth mining firm MP Materials and stakes in roughly 30 firms worth US$
SCMP TechAsiaRobot guide dog debuts in China amid severe lack of furry counterparts A Chinese defence industry research facility has unveiled what it calls the world’s first wheeled and legged robot guide dog for visually impaired people, in an example of the sector’s push into a growing range of civili
SCMP TechAsiaAI economics: rise of machines’ token use could work to advantage of Chinese models The global artificial intelligence boom recently crossed a landmark threshold: autonomous agents now consume more than five times as much data as human users, triggering a surge in processing costs that is giving lower-p
SCMP TechAsiaWhy less visibility into how OpenAI’s new GPT-6 Astra ‘thinks’ is sparking safety concerns OpenAI’s new model, GPT-6 Astra, has less direct visibility into how a model thinks, a development that has sparked concerns coming just weeks after the Hugging Face hacking incident that required a Chinese open model to
SCMP TechAsiaUS-China AI agreement, G20 trade spat, inflation data The United States and China joined other G20 nations in supporting light-touch regulation for artificial intelligence (AI) this week, creating rare agreement between the tech rivals and a potential foundation for further
SCMP TechAsiaApple poised to unveil most expensive iPhone yet, fuelled by memory price surge Apple’s next flagship smartphone, the iPhone 18 Pro, could cost as much as US$1,319 for the base configuration as skyrocketing memory costs push smartphone prices to record highs, according to a recent report. Prices for
SCMP TechAsiaDebunking the ‘Tina’ doctrine: Nomura warns AI-driven rally masks US vulnerabilities The artificial intelligence boom has signalled growing risks in the US economy and capital markets, with a setback in the technology rally potentially triggering a sharp correction in US assets and weakening the dollar,
SCMP TechAsiaHow China Works author on the data economy, robots and AI Lan Xiaohuan is a professor of economics at China Europe International Business School. His book, How China Works: An Introduction to China’s State-led Economic Development, has sold millions of copies in China and has b
SCMP TechAsiaChina’s robot revolution may not arrive in the way you expect China’s robots have become skilled at commanding a stage. At last month’s World Robot Conference in Beijing, humanoids sorted parcels, packed phones and performed household chores. Unitree Robotics, whose machines can ru
SCMP TechAsiaMoonshot AI – creator of Kimi K3 model – has filed for Hong Kong IPO: sources Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Moonshot AI – developer of the leading Kimi K3 model – has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to two people with knowledge of the matter,
SCMP TechAsiaAre Z.ai and MiniMax heading down opposite financial paths months after Hong Kong IPOs? When two of China’s leading AI pioneers went public in Hong Kong in January, they pitched investors on a shared promise: capturing the explosive demand for artificial intelligence at home and abroad. Their first-half ear
SCMP TechAsiaByteDance to expand massive AI data centre cluster in Inner Mongolia, source says TikTok parent ByteDance is seeking to expand its computing capacity by building out more data centres in north China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region in the next two years, according to a person familiar with the matte
SCMP TechAsiaTech race flashpoint: Huang, Musk push back on AI guard rails amid heated US-China rivalry US tech titans including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla’s Elon Musk are pressing global powers to curb artificial intelligence regulations, warning that strict guard rails risk suffocating innovation as the US and Chi
SCMP TechAsiaChinese chipmaker Enflame 4,073 times oversubscribed in Shanghai IPO amid Nvidia race Enflame Technology, one of China’s leading AI chipmakers, has sparked a retail frenzy for its 6.12 billion yuan (US$910.9 million) initial public offering in Shanghai’s tech-heavy Star Market, underscoring growing invest
SCMP TechAsiaChina urges global AI cooperation, not rivalry, ahead of Xi-Trump summit China’s science and technology minister Yin Hejun has called for global cooperation to manage the opportunities and risks posed by artificial intelligence, as Beijing and Washington face renewed trade and tech tensions a
SCMP TechAsiaFrontier AI at a cost: what Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 means for the US-China model race Anthropic’s powerful new Claude Fable 5.1 model has widened its lead in performance benchmarks over Chinese rivals, even as budget-friendly open-weight models from China continue to gain commercial traction globally. The
SCMP TechAsiaChina’s No 2 foundry Hua Hong invests US$2b in new fab to meet surging AI-driven demand Major Chinese foundry Hua Hong Grace Semiconductor is pouring US$2 billion into a massive capacity expansion in the Chinese chip production hub of Wuxi, racing to meet skyrocketing domestic demand for AI infrastructure a
SCMP TechAsiaChina cracks down on AI ‘slop’, clearing out clutter from WeChat, RedNote, Douyin China is cracking down on artificial intelligence-generated “slop” – low-grade, mass-produced synthetic content cluttering social media and news feeds – as part of a sweeping campaign against the abuse of the generative
SCMP TechAsiaChina’s AMEC unveils 6 chip-making machines in a day, boosting self-reliance ambitions Chinese chip equipment giant Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) has unveiled six new machines – at different stages of commercialisation – in a single day as the company accelerates research and development to f
SCMP TechAsiaTencent’s Hy4 model gains in open-source AI rankings after ecosystem-driven training Tencent Holdings’ use of its vast product ecosystem to train its new Hy4 preview model gives it an edge in developing AI agents and brings its flagship model suite back into the top tier of open-source offerings, accordi
SCMP TechAsiaRethinking cybersecurity operations in the age of artificial intelligence [The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Cybersecurity is evolving from a manual operation to one driven by artificial intelligence (AI). The volume, speed and sophistication of modern
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