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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.
China officially connected to the internet in April 1994. Today, its online influence is stronger than ever.
Services sector and overseas demand for exports may have buoyed first-quarter GDP, but daunting challenges remain for country on path to recovery.
Chinese and American presidents took opportunity to have ‘candid’ and ‘constructive’ conversation against backdrop of testing events in region.
China’s strengthened push to use RISC-V, an open-source chip-design architecture, is facing new risks amid scrutiny by the US and Google’s move to stop supporting it on Android.
Lingxi Games has discontinued its Ant Engine project, as parent Alibaba pares down investment in its non-core businesses.
American vulnerability to Chinese overcapacity also a concern being tackled, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo tells key House Appropriations committee.
Further restrictions on access to Intel and Qualcomm chips would pose challenges to Huawei’s PC business, which has been gaining ground in the China market.
The hottest app in China right now is an artificial intelligence-powered photo editor, the same one that went viral in the US last year for its ability to generate images of what a couple’s child could look like.
Data centre deals in the Asia-Pacific this year are expected to surpass the region’s record tally of US$3.45 billion in 2023.
Alat CEO Amit Midha said the only request so far has been to keep supply chains separate, but it would divest if asked because the ‘US is the number one partner for us’.
In addition to improvements like an OLED screen, the M4 chip comes with a faster neural engine that Apple says can handle AI tasks on device.
Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department say using AI-based systems can ensure effective management of protected areas and save manpower.
The Beijing-based start-up, dubbed one of the ‘four new AI tigers’ of China, is said to have plans to release ‘high-quality text-to-video tools’ by this year at the earliest.
The move comes after the tech giant released its first AI-enabled laptop, powered by a new Intel processor.
Meta AI recently brought assistants powered by generative AI to Instagram and WhatsApp. But beyond helping personalise social media, the technology may threaten democracy, and even freedom of speech.
Lenovo founder Liu Chuanzhi made a rare public appearance via video at the anniversary celebration for a patent registration firm, a year after Beijing cracked down on online attacks against entrepreneurs.
The outlay, to be done over the next four years, doubles the investment of subsidiary Amazon Web Services in the city state.
The MAI-1 model is being overseen by Mustafa Suleyman, the Google DeepMind co-founder and former CEO of AI start-up Inflection, The Information reported.
As well as shining a spotlight on the conflicts in Ukraine and the Palestinian West Bank, the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2024 will for the first time show a movie made completely by AI.
Apple is developing a chip to run AI tools on servers, but it is unclear if the tech giant will deploy it, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Foxconn, the largest assembler of Apple’s iPhone, said it expects a rise in second-quarter sales as the smartphone market rebounds.
Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer, expects its second-quarter financial results to show both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year growth.
Air force chief Frank Kendall conducted a test flight on the Vista plane that went nearly nose to nose with a second human-piloted F-16.
With realistic virtual locations, there’s no need to fly actors, crew to different places for film shoots.
The new pact promises to deliver improved remuneration and promotion for UMG-represented songwriters and artists on TikTok, as well as protections related to generative artificial intelligence.
AI was used to test 260 billion billion ingredient combinations for a plant-based mock turtle soup. The process was filmed for a documentary, Not Turtle, to raise awareness about the endangered animals.
The South Korean memory chip maker has already sold out its high-bandwidth memory chips for this year, as enterprises aggressively expand artificial intelligence services.
Silicon Valley giants including Microsoft, Amazon and Google, along with Chinese tech conglomerates such as Alibaba, are making a big push to grow in Southeast Asia.
The leadership reshuffle at Huawei’s consumer business group comes as the company regains lost ground in China’s smartphone market and doubles down on electric vehicle systems.
To go to market with Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system, Elon Musk had no choice but to join a Chinese partner for a mapping licence on the mainland.
Scammers have published a fictitious article with the appearance of a South China Morning Post story and a reporter’s byline to promote two online financial trading apps.
Eight US newspapers are suing ChatGPT creator OpenAI and Microsoft for alleging ‘purloining millions’ of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their artificial intelligence chatbot.