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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.
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China’s AI weather warning system Mazu expanding across Global South

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The weather warning system on display at the World AI Conference in Shanghai last week. Photo: Getty Images

China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test

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China has revealed plans to hit an asteroid at 9km per second, equivalent to more than 26 times the speed of sound, before 2030. Photo: Shutterstock

China team cuts 3D optical chip production time from hours to seconds

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Photonic chips are at the centre of the race to develop next-gen AI hardware. Photo: Getty Images

Chinese fossil find shows birds shed their dinosaur tails step by step

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A Jurassic-era fossil found in China has changed the long-held belief that birds shed the long, bony tails of their dinosaur ancestors through a sudden evolutionary transition. Photo: sciencenet.cn

Sun Fanglin, Chinese scientist who paved way for new cancer drugs, dies at 58

Sun Fanglin joined Tongji University in 2010. Photo: Handout
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With 2.4 trillion parameters, Qwen3.8 is “one of the most powerful models available today”, according to Alibaba. Photo: Shutterstock
Alibaba

Alibaba previews Qwen3.8, claiming its strength trails only Anthropic’s Fable 5

Preview reflects the latest phase in China’s AI push, as domestic labs chase parity with US heavyweights.

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Science

China’s AI weather warning system Mazu expanding across Global South

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Alibaba

AI work agents: China’s Ant, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu flex for enterprise clients

Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong can serve as a ‘launch pad’ for AI firms, finance chief Paul Chan says

Comments follow call by President Xi Jinping for AI to become a key driving force for all countries to promote shared prosperity.

Visitors try out products at AI+ Power 2026, Hong Kong’s largest artificial intelligence expo and conference. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Mainland China

Changzhou says it is building China’s first city-level green token factory

Project is expected to churn out 60 trillion tokens a year, driving the country’s AI clean-power ambitions forward.

Hong Kong economy

Small firms in mainland China adopting AI more readily than large ones: experts

Market agility, steady power supplies and data exchanges also key to gaining edge and dominating AI sector, tech leaders at Bali forum say.

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Education in Hong Kong

DSE graduates can gain from gap year experience before university, experts say

Universities increasingly look beyond applicants’ grades, while students can benefit from ‘holistic’ experience outside the classroom.

Students at Hong Kong’s Munsang College take the DSE exams in April 2026. Photo: SCMP
United States

Why data may become China’s most durable advantage in the AI race

Accelerating buildout of national ecosystem of Chinese-language data has emerged as a ‘more winnable’ arena amid US tech restrictions.

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Global South

China AI summit hears Global South needs equal access to avoid digital divide

Delegates at the World AI Conference in Shanghai warn fragmentation risks isolating emerging markets and concentrating advanced computing in rich economies.

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Semiconductors

Alibaba targets Nvidia’s dominant software ecosystem with open-source AI stack

The firm’s chip unit T-Head aims to lower migration barriers to Zhenwu AI computing architectures, following similar initiatives by Huawei and Moore Threads.

Alibaba chip unit T-Head has become the latest firm to join a broader push by AI chipmakers seeking to provide alternatives to Nvidia’s dominant CUDA toolkit. Photo: Handout
Semiconductors

Chinese chip start-up Biren bets on light-based ‘supernodes’ to match Nvidia

The firm uses near-packaged optics to bypass traditional architecture limits and scale more than 1,000 processor cards across a cluster.

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Biren Technology is considered crucial to China’s efforts to reduce reliance on US chipmaker Nvidia amid Washington’s export curbs on advanced chips. Photo: Handout
Focus

Insert token: how China’s surging AI use is turning compute into currency

As the cost of running AI models continues to drop, the token economy is reshaping ecosystems far beyond corporate cubicles.

Energy

Asia’s AI boom has a dirty secret: the coal that powers it

In the rush to build the digital future, regional tech hubs are digging up the past.

Regulation

Editorial | China’s vision for global AI governance is inclusive

The approach to AI development championed by President Xi at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference stands in contrast to the one adopted by the US.

President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 17. Photo: Xinhua

Video | Tech self-reliance dominates China’s AI conference

The conference attracted more than 1,100 companies displaying some 3,000 exhibits, with hundreds of products making their global debut.

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Xi Jinping

Xi’s call on AI, Trump blasts China, US tariffs

This week: Chinese president urges open and secure AI, US leader accuses Beijing over 2020 election, GDP growth slows. Next week: US global tariff expiry, Apec ministers meet, Hong Kong lawmakers decamp to Beijing.

Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping’s keynote speech at the World AI Conference

The Chinese president addressed the opportunities and challenges of AI, urging the country to seize the “rare historic opportunity” of AI-driven growth by embracing technological openness.

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Mainland China

Opinion | To stay competitive, Chinese brands must learn to command agentic AI

To unlock further success in brand awareness, Chinese firms must appeal to the artificial intelligence agents that are increasingly shaping consumer experience.

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A man stands near a poster promoting Alibaba’s AI agent Wukong, at the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on June 22. Photo: AP
The Philippines

Philippines’ Pax Silica AI hub plan slammed for mineral ‘plunder’

The proposed US-led plan is another example of the authorities’ insincerity in addressing the concerns of affected communities, critics say.

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US-China tech war

Xi Jinping warns against creating ‘new historical injustices’ in AI era

Chinese leader’s presence at World AI Conference signals Beijing’s push to elevate AI from tech priority to pillar of geopolitical strategy.

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Semiconductors

Chinese Nvidia alternatives project massive sales as AI chip demand surges

Moore Threads and Hygon are capitalising on surging demand for AI computing power as they race to fill the void left by Washington’s export controls.

Moore Threads, a GPU start-up founded in 2020, is now one of China’s most closely watched semiconductor players. Photo: Moore Threads
Shanghai

BrainCo claims mind-to-robot link at China’s World AI Conference

Hangzhou-based firm says users can control robots using only their thoughts via EEG headsets, marking a leap in embodied AI tech.

Brain-controlled robot demonstration by Chinese tech unicorn BrainCo. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong stock market

Hong Kong tech resilience tested as South Korea’s Kospi slides into bear market

Foreign investors have pulled US$110 billion from Seoul this year, rotating into undervalued Chinese giants as momentum seen slowing for expensive tech stocks.

South Korea

Why South Korea is racing to build a sovereign AI model for cybersecurity

Fears over access to foreign AI models have accelerated Seoul’s push to control the systems used to defend critical infrastructure.

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ChatGPT and other generative AIs

Moonshot AI touts world’s largest open-source model as China closes gap with US

Kimi K3 is designed for long-horizon coding, knowledge work and reasoning tasks, according to a blog post by Moonshot AI.

Moonshot AI said its Kimi K3 achieved ‘open frontier intelligence' with 2.8 trillion parameters. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Mainland China

Top takeaways from Xi Jinping’s opening address at the World AI Conference

The speech marks the Chinese president’s first-ever keynote address at the nation’s premier artificial intelligence summit.

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at the opening ceremony for the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday. Photo: EPA
Banking & finance

How AI and chip boom is propelling Hong Kong’s ETP market to new heights

Hong Kong is already the world’s fourth-largest market for exchange-traded products, and the rapid growth in trading is set to continue, director says.

Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping says ‘one country’ cannot monopolise AI – as it happened

President’s personal attendance seen as a sign of China’s inclusion of artificial intelligence into broader geopolitical strategy.

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