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News articles, analyses and commentary about machines that mimic human cognitive functions such as learning and problem solving. This also covers chatbots, algorithms, consumer products and Big Data analysis that make use of AI.
LATEST China Science NEWS

China launches new war on deserts with technology tested on far side of the moon

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An apple orchard in China’s western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, along the edge of the Taklamakan Desert. Photo: Xinhua

Is China becoming Europe’s top science partner amid an American brain drain?

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Illustration: Henry Wong

Have Chinese defence firms broken the sniper rifle range record – again?

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Huanan OptoElectronic reported last year that a domestically developed rifle was able to hit five out of five targets at a distance of 3,017 metres. Photo: Hunan Huanan Opto-Electro Group

Trump’s top science adviser visited Beijing. What does that mean for AI?

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Michael Kratsios has identified China as the US' “pre-eminent geopolitical rival and our most formidable technological and scientific competitor”. Photo: AP

Top Singapore-based physicist moves to China after superconductor breakthrough

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Stephen Lin Er Chow (right), pictured with colleagues from the research team that designed the new copper-free superconducting material. Photo: NUS Faculty of Science
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Yogananth Andiappan holds a yoga pose at his Anahata Yoga Studio in Central, Hong Kong. The yoga master recently launched Yogi.live, a AI-powered platform designed to provide users with a more personalised experience. Photo: Facebook.com/masteryogananth
Wellness

Want help getting yoga poses right? AI-powered app analyses your photos

The Yogi.live platform combines AI-powered analysis with a vast library of resources. So where does that leave teachers?

Technology

AI’s World Cup debut: real-time data poised to reshape strategy, level the field

Education in Hong Kong

Letters | Hong Kong students must learn to use AI without losing themselves

South Korea

Reality deficit: how South Korea lost the plot on AI

A viral ‘baseball goddess’, a wolf that never was and a deepfake epidemic. Generative AI is rewriting South Korea’s reality.

A screenshot of the "baseball goddess" from an AI-generated video. Photo: X/kangminlee
National People's Congress (NPC)

What do China’s plans for new AI law mean for future of technology?

The State Council has outlined its plans to ‘accelerate comprehensive legislation for the sound development’ of the technology.

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Hong Kong

‘Too hard’: is AI squeezing graduates out of Hong Kong’s job market?

University graduates are recalibrating their expectations in market where number of vacancies has fallen by 61 per cent since 2022.

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Stocks

Macroscope | Global stock markets are bubbling along on unjustified optimism

Hype around AI and some tech companies has inflated stock prices and left investors ebullient despite the rising risk of a market crash.

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Currency dealers celebrate in front of a screen showing South Korea’s benchmark stock index during a ceremony celebrating it breaking 7,000 points at the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on May 6. The market value of South Korea’s Samsung Electronics smashed past US$1 trillion for the first time on May 6 as the firm rides an AI chip boom that has sent Seoul’s Kospi stock index to record highs. Photo: AFP
Singapore

Human intelligence remains critical in AI era: Singapore minister

Foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan cautions against overdependence on large-language models to solve every problem.

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South Korea

South Korea uses AI to prevent suicides, track crime on Seoul’s Han River bridges

AI sounds an alarm if it identifies a person staying for more than 300 seconds in a bridge’s ‘loitering zones’, allowing humans to swoop in.

2026 Xi-Trump summit

Trump and his CEOs want China’s business – but has Asia moved on?

The US delegation went to Beijing looking for deals, but a ‘super cycle’ of capital expenditures across Asia is already fuelling enormous growth.

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Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
US-China tech war

Trump, Xi weigh AI ‘guardrails’ as Nvidia chip exports hang in the balance

Meeting in Beijing, the presidents weighed safety protocols for the rapidly emerging technology, and H200 chip shipments were a ‘sovereign decision’ for ‌China.

Billionaire Elon Musk gestures after attending a welcome ceremony for US President Donald Trump with President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong

AI | China’s tech giants look to rewrite the e-commerce playbook with AI agents

The nation’s over 900 million e-commerce users are taking part in an experiment where rigid search terms are replaced by natural dialogue.

Semiconductors

‘Panic’ over capacity crunch in mature node chips drives orders to Chinese fabs

AI demand shifts chip production to China, boosting SMIC’s capacity and revenue as global foundries focus on high-margin AI chips.

Science

Does China’s Jiuzhang 4.0 computer herald the age of quantum supremacy?

New programmable photonic quantum computing prototype completed a complex calculation in microseconds, developers say.

A partial view of China’s new photonic quantum computing prototype, Jiuzhang 4.0. Photo: Xinhua
Meta Platforms

Ex-Meta Chinese star joins race for self-improving AI with US$4.6b start-up

The funding round was led by venture capital firms GV and Greycroft, with ‘major participation’ from Nvidia and AMD.

AI systems that can automate the AI research and development process have long been seen as the holy grail of AI research. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Banking & finance

China’s credit demand weak in April despite policy support, strong industry

Lending growth slows as borrowing demand from households and businesses remains weak.

Alibaba

Alibaba, Tencent present a tale of two strategies for AI spending

Alibaba will focus its AI capex on cloud services, while Tencent is prioritising internal demand with its spending.

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South Korea

Samsung union’s strike threat fuels fears of South Korea’s economic slowdown

The AI boom and SK Hynix’s profit-sharing arrangement with its workers have reportedly galvanised Samsung’s biggest union to take action.

Union members from Samsung Electronics stage a protest in front of the company’s plant in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi province last month. Photo: The Korea Times
Hong Kong economy

Calls grow to hire locals as graduate jobs decline amid AI, economic pressures

Industry leaders’ remarks come after minister says vacancies suitable for graduates fell from about 80,000 in 2022 to around 31,000 in 2025.

Alibaba

Alibaba shares surge 7% in Hong Kong as firm accelerates pivot to AI

The Chinese tech giant’s New York-listed shares also closed up 8.2 per cent on Wednesday, after it reported triple-digit growth in AI revenues.

Semiconductors

Chinese memory module makers ramp up production with new CXMT DRAM

Founded in 2016, CXMT is widely regarded as China’s only domestic DRAM maker to have achieved mass production.

CXMT is also moving towards a domestic initial public offering to fund further expansion. Photo: Handout
Alibaba

Alibaba CEO signals capex boost as China tech giant forges full-stack AI path

Alibaba’s quarterly revenue arrived largely in line with estimates as the tech giant disclosed its first AI sales data, and in early US trading, the shares jumped 6%.

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A man walks past an Alibaba display featuring the Olympic rings outside an Alibaba office building in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on Tuesday. Photo: Getty Images
2026 Xi-Trump summit

Trump flies to Beijing, Nvidia’s Huang joins trip at last minute

The US president headed to Beijing with 17 CEOs, belatedly including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, reflecting a focus on trade for his summit with China’s Xi Jinping.

China technology

How ByteDance plans to turn OpenClaw craze into a profitable AI business

ArkClaw’s subscription model and surging token demand mark ByteDance’s new approach to agent economics.

Semiconductors

China’s booming tech exports give Beijing ‘wind in its sails’ for Trump summit

The role of tech products in April’s trade data reflects how computing-related goods are a ‘new and important growth driver’ for exports.

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Chinese trade received a significant boost from the technology sector in April. Photo: Shutterstock Images
2026 Xi-Trump summit

Musk joins Trump’s Beijing delegation as a ‘natural bridge’ for trade

Gigafactory stakes and a push for self-driving software approval cast the billionaire as a key US envoy while seemingly sealing a reconciliation with Trump.

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Tesla’s massive Gigafactory is seen during a government-organised media trip in Shanghai on April 14. Photo: Reuters
Unitree Robotics

Video | China’s Unitree unveils manned mecha

The 500kg mecha is capable of transforming into a four-legged mode.

Kuaishou

AI | Kuaishou shares soar as Kling AI eyes US$20b valuation in potential spin-off

The Chinese short-video platform’s shares jumped as much as 10 per cent amid US$20 billion valuation of spin-off, Tencent investor talks.

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