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It is unusual for the world’s nations to unanimously approve a resolution, but when it came to carefully handling the development of artificial intelligence, all 193 members – including the United States and China – were on board
Everything from songs penned by AI to augmented reality exhibitions come under art tech umbrella, which curators hope will catch eye of young people.
Baichuan, Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI and MiniMax are amassing billions of yuan of funding from domestic tech giants, venture capitalists and state-backed investors.
Lenovo has been strengthening its focus on AI amid a broader trend in the global PC industry to integrate the fast-developing technology into various products and services.
World’s foremost index provider alone channelled US$3.7 billion into entities boosting People’s Liberation Army, says congressional report.
Dutch intelligence agencies first publicly attributed cyber espionage to China in February, when they said state-backed cyber spies had gained access to a Dutch military network last year.
The first global standards specifically covering GenAI and LLM released on Tuesday are a joint effort between Ant Group, Baidu, Tencent, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia and others.
Only a few dozen employees at the Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai were told to leave, representing a tiny portion of the workforce of 20,000 assembling Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, say two people with knowledge of the matter.
Among those to sign partnership deals with Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park are top firms from nine major economies.
The plans come as Apple CEO Tim Cook meets with Singapore’s prime minister-designate Lawrence Wong as well as the city state’s incumbent leader Lee Hsien Loong this week as part of his Southeast Asia tour.
Government bureau says new feature will allow the 1823 public inquiry hotline chatbot to answer questions across all service areas by third quarter of year.
Impact of study on US military’s F-22 fighter jet could be great given range of its air-to-air missiles and required radius for ground bomb attacks, says team.
Google has not specified how many employees will be laid off, but said some will be able to apply for internal roles.
TSMC, the dominant producer of advanced chips used in artificial intelligence applications, is expected to report a 5 per cent rise in first-quarter profit on Thursday thanks to strong demand.
The virtual cashier service highlights a growing trend among restaurants that are turning to such a method to cut costs and address staff shortages.
Micron Technology, the largest US maker of memory chips, is poised to get US$6.1 billion in government grants to help pay for domestic factories, part of an effort to bring semiconductor production back to American soil.
AI is likely to make dramatic improvements to workers’ quality of life, but as with every new technology, some jobs will also be lost, Dimon says.
Ampace is betting on a boom in home energy storage systems and the ‘batterification’ of tools and electronic devices as it aims to solidify an already dominant position in a part of the market away from electric cars and smartphones.
Banma Network Technologies, an Alibaba-backed autonomous-driving software start-up, has replaced its CEO amid an overhaul.
Carmakers like Dongfeng, Chery and BYD are eyeing production sites in Europe to assemble the next generation of electric vehicles as a foil against the EU’s protectionist tariffs as a brutal price war at home drives more producers offshore in search of fresh markets.
As well as programmes in industry and education, local governments are encouraged to provide perks, including incentives in housing, start-up investment and schooling and jobs for the family of digital workers.
Sales of ASML’s lithography systems to customers in China made up a record 49 per cent of the total in the first quarter.
The tech executive met Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Jakarta and talked about the possibility of setting up manufacturing in the Southeast Asian nation.
Microsoft will invest US$1.5 billion in the UAE’s top artificial intelligence firm, G42, after the Abu Dhabi-based company worked out an unusual deal with the US government to end any cooperation with China.
At the Digital Silk Road Development Forum in Xian, Alibaba and Shein were praised for helping advance the country’s booming cross-border e-commerce sector.
Biden administration ‘taking a serious look’ at existing tools to deal effectively with Beijing’s policies causing ‘dependencies and vulnerabilities’.
US exports control could unintentionally lead to a Chinese dominance of global legacy-chip production, researchers say.
WeWork’s US$47 billion valuation plunged after the company’s 2019 IPO failed to materialise due to multiple controversies – but now co-founder and former CEO Neumann wants back in to the business
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.