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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.
Quarterly revenue from Alibaba’s cloud computing unit rose 26 per cent to 33.4 billion yuan. Photo: Shutterstock
Alibaba

Alibaba rises most in 3 years on outlook for on-demand delivery and cloud business

Company’s shares jump 19 per cent as investors move on from interim results to focus on quick commerce numbers and AI development.

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Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong, 2 mainland Chinese cities named UN body’s top innovation cluster

China technology

Exclusive | SenseTime on fast track to profitability thanks to spin-offs, Beijing support

Trending in China

China sellers use AI to clone dive queen Quan Hongchan, top athletes to push products

Egg sellers con 47,000 people online by making bogus claims about dive queen’s family farm, sparking fresh concern over deepfake rackets.

Online scammers have used artificial intelligence technology to clone Chinese diver Quan Hongchan to sell eggs, while other top mainland athletes have been used in a similar way to promote other products. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/Douyin
DeepSeek

Open Questions | The ‘godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton on preventing takeover by the technology

The ‘godfather of AI’ discusses the risks of the technology and whether superpowers can find common ground to rein it in.

ChatGPT and other generative AIs

‘It’s good for the city’: how the AI craze has taken over San Francisco

From museum exhibits to booming AI hubs, San Francisco navigates optimism and anxiety amid the rapid growth of artificial intelligence.

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Alibaba

Alibaba sees strong consumer mindshare in instant commerce push

Alibaba also expects its cloud computing business to remain on an upwards trajectory in the coming quarters, CEO Eddie Wu says.

Alibaba’s cloud computing unit was the company’s fastest-growing business segment in the June quarter. Photo: Shutterstock
American cinema

How Google AI helped bring The Wizard of Oz into the 21st century

Las Vegas’ The Wizard of Oz at Sphere is an immersive, ultra-enhanced version of the original that involved over 2,000 people.

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Japan

Japan launches QR codes to locate the nearest vacant restrooms

Japan’s Toto, known for its water-spraying, musical toilets, is revolutionising the industry once again – this time with a QR code system.

Science

How China streamlines national labs into tech war machines: the Hong Kong case

China overhauls Hong Kong’s sprawling network of state-backed research laboratories, turning them into sleek tech hubs.

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Leading the ceremony to present State Key Laboratories plaques in Hong Kong are (from fourth left) Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun, Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu and director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong SAR, Zhou Ji, at the Central Government Offices on August 25. Photo: May Tse
Huawei

Tech war: Huawei executive claims victory over US sanctions with tech ecosystem

Huawei has already ‘built an ecosystem entirely independent of the United States’, according to a senior executive.

Huawei is pushing the boundaries in semiconductors, computing power, cloud services and AI amid US tech restrictions. Photo: Shutterstock
India

Can OpenAI’s New Delhi office spark India’s AI hub ambition?

Competition is heating up between the ChatGPT maker and its AI rivals, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI, to expand in the key Indian market.

Alibaba

Alibaba confident of winning instant commerce war as quarterly profit rises

Taobao Shangou reached a peak of 120 million daily orders, as instant commerce monthly active users climbed to 300 million.

Made in China 2025

China doubles down on AI – but calls for rational, not ‘blind’, growth

Beijing wants regions to shape AI to local needs, avoiding the fierce competition plaguing some sectors and weighing on the economy.

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Schematic microchip of artificial intelligence with a coordinate system on the background of the Flag of China. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

China’s ‘little Nvidia’ warns investors of risks after stock gains 533% in year

Cambricon also reminds investors that it is subject to US export restrictions that make it vulnerable to supply chain risks.

Cambricon reminded investors that it was subject to US export restrictions that made it vulnerable to supply chain risks. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Tencent

Tencent counts on Chinese AI tools demand to lift overseas cloud business

Tencent says there is a lot of opportunities to bring Chinese open-source AI models to overseas clients.

Technology

Elon Musk’s xAI enters agentic coding arena with new model

The grok-code-fast-1 model will be available for free for a limited time.

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Blockchain

Exclusive | Hong Kong can rival US, UAE as a crypto hub, Binance founder CZ says

Zhao Changpeng advocates for quick policy changes, as Hong Kong seeks to become a virtual asset hub while minimising financial risks.

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Binance founder Zhao Changpeng, known as CZ. Photo: Handout
US-China relations

Trump, Nvidia talks to allow Blackwell chip sales in China will take time: CEO

Asked if he would agree if Trump demanded 15 per cent of such sales to China, chief executive Jensen Huang suggested he was open to the idea.

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China technology

Chinese AI model developers seek fast commercial adoption as training costs fall

AI penetration rate in China’s finance, government, telecoms and healthcare sectors are each in excess of 60 per cent, Frost & Sullivan says.

Hong Kong society

Dripping air conditioner? Hong Kong hygiene authorities plan to use AI to spot it

Food and Environmental Hygiene Department says success of new night-vision cameras in spotting such nuisances paves way for AI usage.

Hong Kong hygiene authorities plan to incorporate artificial intelligence into their third-generation cameras to detect dripping air conditioners. Photo: Sam Tsang
SenseTime

SenseTime’s AI growth surges, as China advances nationwide initiative

The company attributes the results to ‘tremendous growth’ in demand for training, fine-tuning and inference of generative AI models.

A SenseTime sign seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. Photo: Reuters
Wellness

Can better data make us better athletes? Technogym’s radical wellness vision

Technogym started in a small Italian garage, and became a US$2.6 billion fitness empire. Now founder Nerio Alessandri is betting personalisation will define the future of wellness.

Semiconductors

Baidu unveils AI computing platform powered by Chinese-designed chips

The Baige 5.0 infrastructure platform aims to raise the efficiency of DeepSeek’s open-source AI models.

Tokyo

Video | Japan warns of Mount Fuji eruption with ‘alarmist’ simulation

The production is meant to raise public awareness of the risks posed by the more than 100 active volcanoes in the country.

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Open Questions series

Open Questions | ‘Godfather of AI’ Hinton on making computers care about humans

Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton discusses advances in AI, how to prevent a computer uprising, and the US-China race to develop artificial superintelligence.

Illustration: Victor Sanjinez
Japan

‘Inappropriate’: Japan urges China to curb AI videos on wartime emperor

The images include Emperor Hirohito being transformed into a uniformed schoolgirl and depicted as a dog, sparking fierce online criticism.

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Technology

Opinion | 6 steps to bring Hong Kong into true AI readiness

Hong Kong’s competitiveness in the era of AI will hinge on whether organisations can meaningfully integrate AI into their DNA.

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