https://www.scmp.com/rss/523113/feed Andrew Yao is a computer scientist and computational theorist, currently serving as Dean of Tsinghua University’s College of AI and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences. A Turing Award laureate (2000) and Kyoto Prize recipient (2021), his expertise spans algorithms, cryptography, and quantum computing. Yao has significantly shaped China’s AI landscape, fostering talent and research. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Seong Hyeon Choi Seong Hyeon Choi China may be feeling uneasy about talk of a rare five-year defence cooperation plan between North Korea and Russia that could accelerate Pyongyang’s military modernisation on multiple fronts, analysts said. According to the Russian state news agency Tass, Russian Defence Minister Andrey Belousov held talks to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang on April 26, with Belousov describing relations between the countries as at an “unprecedentedly high level”. Belousov also said preparations... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3352265/why-5-year-defence-pact-between-north-korea-and-russia-could-make-china-uneasy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3352265/why-5-year-defence-pact-between-north-korea-and-russia-could-make-china-uneasy?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 03 May 2026 14:00:08 +0000 Maria Siow Maria Siow US President Donald Trump’s public rebuke of South Korea for refusing to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz is an uncomfortable moment for a 70-year alliance, piling fresh pressure on a Seoul government already uneasy about Washington’s appetite for confrontation in the Middle East. But analysts believe the relationship can withstand the strain, pointing to deep institutional ties between the two militaries, broad elite and public support in both capitals, and the reluctance of other US... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3349554/why-trumps-hormuz-rebuke-wont-derail-south-koreas-very-strong-alliance-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3349554/why-trumps-hormuz-rebuke-wont-derail-south-koreas-very-strong-alliance-us?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:30:15 +0000 Seong Hyeon Choi Seong Hyeon Choi The United States’ decapitation operation against Venezuela will reinforce North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, an aspiration that will continue to draw China’s “tacit tolerance”, according to analysts. After the US military abducted Nicolas Maduro during an attack on Venezuela on Saturday, Pyongyang criticised Washington’s actions as “wildly” violating the sovereignty of Caracas. It was one of a slew of countries that issued swift criticism of the US move. In a statement on Sunday, the North Korean... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3339129/kim-jong-un-expected-cling-nuclear-security-blanket-after-venezuela-decapitation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3339129/kim-jong-un-expected-cling-nuclear-security-blanket-after-venezuela-decapitation?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:00:08 +0000 Maria Siow Maria Siow South Korea’s recent moves to lower tensions with Pyongyang – from removing its propaganda loudspeakers to downplaying the North’s human rights record – may ease frictions on the peninsula, but analysts say they are unlikely to help restart stalled denuclearisation talks between North Korea and the US. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un continues to spurn engagement with US President Donald Trump, while Washington appears to have shifted its focus away from curbing Pyongyang’s expanding nuclear... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3335789/why-south-koreas-concessions-are-failing-revive-trump-kim-nuclear-talks?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3335789/why-south-koreas-concessions-are-failing-revive-trump-kim-nuclear-talks?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:30:07 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek made a rare appearance at a state-backed industry event on Friday as a senior researcher reaffirmed the AI lab’s commitment to developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) despite its potentially “dangerous” impacts on society. Chen Deli spoke during a panel discussion alongside the heads of five other companies collectively known as China’s “six little dragons” of AI at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, eastern Zhejiang province. It... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3332086/chinas-deepseek-makes-rare-public-comment-calls-ai-whistle-blower-job-losses?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3332086/chinas-deepseek-makes-rare-public-comment-calls-ai-whistle-blower-job-losses?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 09 Nov 2025 04:37:07 +0000 Seong Hyeon Choi Seong Hyeon Choi North Korea’s recent military parade, which featured an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the continental United States, suggested that China had “tacitly accepted” Pyongyang as a nuclear state, analysts said. The October 10 parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea was attended by Li Qiang – the first Chinese premier to visit the country in 16 years. It featured several advanced weapons systems, including tanks, artillery and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3329525/north-korea-pushing-china-more-openly-accept-its-status-nuclear-power?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3329525/north-korea-pushing-china-more-openly-accept-its-status-nuclear-power?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:00:08 +0000 Seong Hyeon Choi Seong Hyeon Choi When North Korea unveiled a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) development a day before its leader visited China last week, it was sending a message to Beijing and Washington that it would not renounce its nuclear weapons, according to analysts. Last week, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un travelled to attend China’s military parade in Beijing and hold bilateral summits with Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The trio stood side by side, looking out... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3325159/did-kim-use-attending-chinas-parade-chance-send-his-own-missile-message?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3325159/did-kim-use-attending-chinas-parade-chance-send-his-own-missile-message?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:27:55 +0000 Josephine Ma Josephine Ma Geoffrey Hinton has been dubbed the “godfather of AI” because of his revolutionary neural network models, which were inspired by the structure of the human brain. He shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” Hinton quit Google in 2023 to speak freely about the risks posed by AI. He joined the technology giant’s AI research team, Google Brain, a decade earlier through the acquisition of a... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3323440/godfather-ai-hinton-making-computers-care-about-humans?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3323440/godfather-ai-hinton-making-computers-care-about-humans?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:00:12 +0000 Ann Cao,Wency Chen Ann Cao,Wency Chen Shanghai will host its eighth annual flagship artificial intelligence (AI) conference this weekend as China ramps up competition against the US for supremacy in the fast-developing technology. The three-day World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), with the theme of “Global Solidarity in the AI Era”, will kick off on Saturday with an opening keynote from Premier Li Qiang, who also headlined last year’s event. A high-level meeting on global AI governance will be held in tandem with the... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3319607/shanghai-conference-sets-stage-us-china-face-heated-race-ai-supremacy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3319607/shanghai-conference-sets-stage-us-china-face-heated-race-ai-supremacy?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:00:16 +0000 Coco Feng,Xinmei Shen,Zhao Ziwen Coco Feng,Xinmei Shen,Zhao Ziwen Artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading everywhere – in our homes and workplaces, and in our social media feeds – but who governs how it is used around the world remains in question. Are there, or will there be, common rules? For now, it would seem not. Earlier this year, the Trump administration and the UK refused to join China and more than 60 other countries in signing an international declaration at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris promoting “inclusive” and “sustainable”... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3316773/artificial-intelligence-oversight-divides-china-us-policymakers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3316773/artificial-intelligence-oversight-divides-china-us-policymakers?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Jul 2025 07:00:13 +0000