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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

Chinese satellites appear to dock in orbit for historic refuelling mission

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Satellite-to-satellite refuelling in high orbit presents technical challenges such as the need for precise docking and fluid transfer between uncrewed spacecraft in microgravity. Photo: Handout

Chinese team says carbon dioxide can be turned into sugar

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A team of Chinese scientists says its biotransformation system produces the sugar sucrose without the need to grow sugar cane or sugar beets by converting methanol. Photo: Shutterstock Images

‘No tunnel, no waste’: China’s Inner Mongolia uranium mine signals nuclear leap

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Breakthrough at Inner Mongolia’s “National No 1 Uranium” demonstration project has been hailed as “a systematic technological leap” likely to reshape uranium mining and processing in China. Photo: Handout

Will China’s mega dam in Tibet bring a water crisis to India? Study gives hint

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Water gushes out from the Three Gorges Dam through nine of its flood discharge gates to spare more capacity for incoming floods from upper reaches of the Yangtze River, in central China’s Hubei Province, July 15, 2024. Photo: Xinhua

AI is worsening China’s population decline. But is it all bad news?

13 Jul 2025 - 6:00AMvideocam

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The signing ceremony, captured online, as BYD buys a 20 per cent stake in its Thailand distributor, Rever Automotive, on July 7, 2024. Photo: Weibo

Opinion | For Chinese firms going out, global success requires truly ‘going in’

Beyond great products and service, building a trusted brand requires Chinese firms to integrate into, not just occupy, foreign markets.

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Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong should ban deepfake porn to protect victims: NGO and lawmakers

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Opinion | Britain’s Asia-Pacific ties all the more vital in an uncertain world

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China’s AI glasses market takes shape as Xiaomi’s entry inspires early adopters

The Xiaomi AI glasses are handy for hands-free photography and videography, which is ideal for situations like cycling.

13 Jul 2025 - 11:00AM

Musk’s xAI apologises after Grok chatbot praises Hitler

The company blamed the offensive posts on a software update meant to make the artificial intelligence assistant act more like a human.

13 Jul 2025 - 3:04AMvideocam

China technology

Chinese unicorn Moonshot launches AI model Kimi K2 in red-hot open-source market

Kimi K2 reflects a broader trend in the AI sector towards open-source development to improve efficiency and gain wider product adoption.

12 Jul 2025 - 6:02PM

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Huawei eyes export of AI chips to Middle East, Southeast Asia to rival Nvidia

The Chinese firm has reached out to potential clients in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Thailand about buying its Ascend 910B processors.

12 Jul 2025 - 1:08PMvideocam

Huawei is offering Ascend 910B AI chip volumes in the low thousands to potential customers in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Photo: Shutterstock

Editor's Letter

This week in PostMag: racing at Le Mans and a healthy obsession with cheese

Sample Jeremy Evrard’s dairy delights, get behind the wheel at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, meet an iconic Hong Kong architect and see what’s new in Bordeaux wines.

12 Jul 2025 - 12:45PM

Editorial | Hong Kong is poised to catch the global AI wave

After being slow to catch on to the first wave of internet innovations, the city is making its mark in the field of AI development.

12 Jul 2025 - 7:15AM

Barking up wrong tree? Indonesian police’s robot use criticised for wrong focus

The police displayed RoboCop-style robots, robot tanks and robodogs to President Prabowo Subianto at their anniversary parade last week.

11 Jul 2025 - 7:45PM

A group of robodogs taking part at the Indonesian police’s 79th anniversary parade in Jakarta on July 1. Photo: EPA

Robinhood CEO raises US$100 million to build AI models for maths

Harmonic adopts a maths-first approach, which it hopes will make its model better at solving complicated problems than large language models.

11 Jul 2025 - 11:50AM

Letters | Worried about AI taking your job? Stop relying on it

Readers discuss the limitations of artificial intelligence, English language proficiency among Hong Kong students, and the decline in the US’ attractiveness.

11 Jul 2025 - 12:48PM

US tech stocks remain top draw despite de-dollarisation trend, Swiss banks say

Swiss banks advise investors to keep US tech stocks as core holdings due to their innovation and strong earnings.

11 Jul 2025 - 7:30AM

US-China relations

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang meets Trump before heading to China

The world’s most valuable tech company has become ensnared in a broader US-China conflict as the foremost producer of AI chips.

11 Jul 2025 - 4:23AMvideocam

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends an event in Paris in June. Photo: AFP

ChatGPT and other generative AIs

Will Smith eating spaghetti is a benchmark for AI video. How does he look?

A new video created using Google’s Veo 3 platform shows how quickly AI video is progressing, but that’s scaring some in the movie business.

11 Jul 2025 - 12:36AMvideocam

A still from an AI-generated video of Will Smith eating spaghetti on Google’s Veo 3 platform. The video shows no apparent flaws and is a huge jump on videos of the same sequence from two years ago.

China’s cloud services spending hits US$11.6 billion on AI-related demand

Alibaba leads the market with a 33 per cent share, followed by Huawei and Tencent with shares of 18 per cent and 10 per cent, respectively.

10 Jul 2025 - 11:24PM

China technology

Global AI conference in Shanghai to showcase China’s prowess, vision

High-level meeting on AI governance to be held in tandem with the three-day World Artificial Intelligence Conference, starting on July 26.

10 Jul 2025 - 8:00PM

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Head of China’s state-owned firm regulator visits DeepSeek, Unitree

Zhang Yuzhuo says state-owned enterprises should learn from the agile innovation practices of private firms.

10 Jul 2025 - 7:00PM

A Unitree humanoid robot blows a kiss at the company’s offices in Hangzhou, eastern China’s Zhejiang province. Photo: Xinhua

Nvidia CEO Huang to meet Chinese officials amid US tech tensions

Huang plans to meet top officials, including the commerce minister, while attending the International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing next week.

10 Jul 2025 - 5:54PMvideocam

Hong Kong’s IntelliGen AI takes on Google DeepMind in drug discovery

The start-up, which aims to raise tens of millions of US dollars in an angel funding round, hopes to compete globally, founder says.

10 Jul 2025 - 7:50PM

Elon Musk unveils xAI’s updated chatbot, Grok 4, after antisemitism controversy

The world’s wealthiest person says Grok 4 is ‘smarter than almost all graduate students, in all disciplines, simultaneously’.

10 Jul 2025 - 4:21PM

“At times it may lack common sense,” Elon Musk says of Grok 4, the latest iteration of start-up xAI’s chatbot. Photo: Vincent Feuray/Hans Lucas/AFP

Malaysia couple journey to tour site after watching AI-video, unaware it’s unreal

Credulous elderly pair convinced by non-existent TV journalist that scenic cable car attraction is real, refuse to believe the truth on arrival at ‘resort’.

10 Jul 2025 - 2:00PM

An elderly Malaysian couple drove for hours to find a tour site after watching an artificial intelligence-generated video, unaware that the whole thing was fictional. Photo: SCMP composite/Facebook@Nurul Afzarina Mokhtar

ChatGPT and other generative AIs

OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

OpenAI’s browser is designed to keep some user interactions within a ChatGPT-like native interface instead of clicking through to websites.

10 Jul 2025 - 1:45PM

Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan films to get AI reboots in China. But not all agree

Plans to use AI to revitalise 100 kung fu classics such as Police Story and Fist of Fury show a gulf in attitudes between China and the US.

10 Jul 2025 - 12:23PM

Samsung bets on AI foldable phones to challenge Apple, Chinese rivals

The South Korean giant lost its global smartphone crown to Apple in 2023, and faces growing competition from Huawei and Honor.

10 Jul 2025 - 11:51AM

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 (left) and Z Flip 7 (right) from Samsung. Photo: Handout

Hong Kong transport

Letters | Driverless bus incident points to Hong Kong’s need for AI governance

Readers discuss the city’s AI governance shortfall, ESG implementation hurdles, and how to save small shops.

10 Jul 2025 - 11:30AM

Two driverless buses collided at Hong Kong International Airport on June 22. Photo: SCMP Pictures

China’s CXMT eyes IPO amid global memory-chip market upswing

CXMT completes formal filing of pre-listing guidance with the China Securities Regulatory Commission.

10 Jul 2025 - 9:00AM

Hong Kong stock market

Chinese AI stocks to extend DeepSeek-driven run, analysts say

AI to be ‘a key driver for China’s modernisation,’ Huachuang Securities says, joining Morgan Stanley, UBS and others in optimistic outlook.

10 Jul 2025 - 7:30AMvideocam

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