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Chinese state-owned carmaker Chery Automobile takes a step into Europe’s EV markets as its Omoda brand establishes a partnership with UK car rental company Octopus Electric Vehicles.

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Scholz’s trip comes as the European Union is undertaking an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), and as criticism grows in the United States about Chinese overcapacity.

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Innovation is increasingly coming under the spotlight amid Beijing’s push for tech self-reliance, but criticisms persist that quantity is being emphasised over quality in the pursuit of patents.

Origin Wukong shield shows ‘China’s home-grown superconducting quantum computer can play both offence and defence’: computing centre head.

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Generative AI may be the largest technological transformation since cloud computing or even the internet, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy writes in an annual shareholder letter.

Beijing’s enhanced emphasis on stronger ‘productive forces’ is seen giving China a lift in its pursuit of aviation self-sufficiency as external pressure mounts.

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Generative AI can be used to find new types of attacks, but companies are also using the tech to assess these threats, Microsoft’s head of Responsible AI said at HSBC’s Global Investment Summit.

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Lady Gaga was seen sporting a diamond ring on her left hand in West Hollywood recently – so is the ‘Bad Romance’ singer engaged to her beau Michael Polansky?

Intel debuted a new version of its artificial intelligence chip on Tuesday, while Google revealed the details of a new version of its data-centre artificial intelligence chips and announced an Arm-based based central processor.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr has unveiled a six-year plan to counter the risks posed by digital intrusions from abroad following a spate of cyberattacks blamed on Chinese hackers.

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There is nothing to fear from missteps because nobody is error-free, Ma wrote, after his co-founder Joe Tsai touched on Alibaba’s mistakes in a podcast interview, generating a frenzy on China’s social media.

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The Chinese electric vehicle maker has taken a significant step towards tapping the right-hand drive market after forming a partnership with Sime Darby Motors to distribute its cars in Hong Kong.

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Fumio Kishida says that in areas like semiconductors, AI, quantum computing and biotech, it is ‘increasingly important for the two countries to build resilience’ as the two allies work to counterbalance China.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said artificial intelligence (AI) would be smarter than the smartest human probably by next year, or by 2026, adding that AI development was constrained by the availability of electricity.

The Biden administration will announce next week that it is awarding more than US$6 billion to Samsung Electronics to expand its semiconductor output in Taylor, Texas, as it seeks to ramp up chip-making in the US.

Walter Huang was killed on the way to work in 2018 when his Model X swerved off a highway near San Francisco. His family had alleged that Autopilot steered the vehicle into a highway barrier.