Videos of actors like Aamir Khan criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi have dominated social media, muddying the political debate and influencing voter decisions.

The city’s focus on China-made graphics processing units shows how mainland authorities are scrambling to build up computing resources, despite US export restrictions on advanced chips.

He went from washing dishes at Denny’s to making cheesesteaks with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg – and his signature black leather jacket look has drawn comparisons to Steve Jobs

The next-generation Main Ground Combat System, equipped with artificial intelligence and laser technology, has been billed as a game changer in modern warfare.

The government said it was investigating the spread of the manipulated video ‘seemingly asking the armed forces to act against another nation’.

Sales at the South Korean firm, the world’s No 2 maker of memory, more than doubled in the March quarter, beating estimates.

China’s status as a ‘near-peer competitor’ is driving efforts to limit access to key technologies such as semiconductors and counter its global influence.

Apple is still No 1 in China’s premium segment, which consists of handsets priced over US$600, but it is losing market share to Honor and Huawei, according to IDC.

TSMC, a key supplier to Nvidia and Apple, says a new chip-manufacturing technology called ‘A16’ will enter production in the second half of 2026.

The Chinese tech giant already counts more than 100 carmakers and various automotive industry players as partners.

Marcos Jnr’s office says “no such directive exists” and Manila is working with various agencies to combat deepfakes.

SenseTime’s shares gained as much as 36 per cent after the company launched the latest iteration of its SenseNova large language model.

Launched in 2006, Baidu Baike gained popularity partly because access to Wikipedia was unreliable and eventually blocked in China.

The open-source technology, which can be used to build smartphone chips and advanced processors, is being used by major Chinese tech firms.

Among the buyers were the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Shandong Artificial Intelligence Institute, the Hubei Earthquake Administration and a state-run aviation research centre.

Alibaba and Baidu are adding support for Meta’s Llama 3 large language model to their cloud computing platforms, after the technology used to train chatbots like ChatGPT was released last week.

‘Obvious gaps’ exist in the code-writing and operative abilities between domestic and first-class foreign models, an assessment by Tsinghua University found.

Jewellery chain Chow Tai Fook promises more technology-led shopping because ‘that’s what younger customers want’.

China’s ATLATL Innovation Centre and California-headquartered Founder Institute plan to bring start-ups from around the world to the city and invest in local ventures.

But Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong also expresses optimism, pointing to city’s edge in bringing in top people despite current manpower shortage.

The internet giant’s Intelligent Driving Group will strive for ‘100 million yuan of revenue and 100 million yuan of profits’, unit head Wang Yunpeng writes in a letter to employees.

Chinese regulatory authorities had ordered the removal of those two apps over national security concerns, according to Apple.

The World Health Organisation is providing basic health information through a humanlike avatar, but the AI-driven bot does not always know what it is talking about.