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Foreigners having trouble making mobile payments in China is just a trivial issue when it comes to the cost of its walled internet.
- The outlay, to be done over the next four years, doubles the investment of subsidiary Amazon Web Services in the city state
- AWS this year also announced plans to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Japan, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Malaysia and Thailand
Indonesia has offered the island of Bali and the nation’s new capital Nusantara as potential locations for Microsoft’s new research facility and data centre.
Chinese regulatory authorities had ordered the removal of those two apps over national security concerns, according to Apple.
The company’s latest AI push could fuel further debate on whether China can continue relying on open-source development, instead of bolstering its own tech ecosystem.
Meta Platforms is deploying a new home-grown chip to help power its artificial intelligence services, aiming to decrease its reliance on semiconductors from Nvidia and other outside companies.
CrowdTangle will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year, a move researchers fear will disrupt efforts to detect an expected firehose of political misinformation.
The new Blackwell chips are made up of 208 billion transistors and will be able to link with other chips, making them much faster at handling AI models.
A presentation made to Chinese Premier Li Qiang pointed out major hurdles faced by the nation’s artificial-intelligence development initiatives.
ByteDance’s latest semiconductor-related investment shows the lengths being taken by the company to overcome the impact of tighter US tech sanctions on mainland China.
The rising number of top-tier Chinese AI talent working in American institutions reflects the mainland’s continuing struggle with brain drain, compared with a brain gain for the US.
The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics expects its CARES Copilot 1.0 system to help neurosurgeons provide ‘more efficient clinical diagnosis’.
Many Chinese netizens on Weibo and former Global Times editor Hu Xijin praised TikTok for urging American users to flood legislators with calls against a new bill.
Broadcom said on Thursday it expects US$10 billion in revenue from chips related to artificial intelligence this year, but its stock dipped after the tech company’s full-year forecast failed to impress investors.
The praise heaped on developers Jing Li and Ricky Wang Yu reflects mainland China’s excitement over how Sora further advances artificial intelligence applications.
Savvy merchants are renting out Apple’s Vision Pro headset as Chinese consumers await official release date in country.
CEO George Zhao said new Honor smartphones will have an ‘intent-based user interface’ that uses AI to anticipate user needs and create a seamless experience.
Young users and parents say the billionaire was repeatedly warned that Instagram and Facebook weren’t safe for children, but he ignored the findings.
The company says its latest upgrade makes iMessage more secure than WhatsApp, Telegram, Skype, QQ, WeChat – or even Signal.
Rokid chief executive Misa Zhu Mingming said Apple’s Vision Pro headset is expected to spur broader demand for more affordable and ergonomically designed AR and VR wearable devices.
The stock, boosted by demand for its processors, is one of the few firms to have achieved significant revenue growth from AI.
Brilliant Labs says AI is to smart glasses what multitouch was to the smartphone as it jumps into a market reinvigorated by Apple’s Vision Pro.
The US and China are on divergent economic paths, as exemplified by their respective stock markets. As China attempts to defuse a meltdown, experts argue for wide-ranging reforms to resolve fundamental issues weighing down growth and recovery prospects.
Wall Street’s enthusiasm about artificial intelligence has Nvidia on the verge of becoming more valuable than Amazon for the first time in two decades, and the AI chip maker is not far behind Google-owner Alphabet.
Although economic factors are the main reason for tech lay-offs, firms are also shifting resources to focus on AI talent.
Social network giant Meta Platforms has seen its China-related revenue grow steadily due to strong traction from mainland-based advertisers, as Chinese brands vie for consumers in foreign markets.
Such a national approach to the artificial intelligence boom stands to drive an expansion of data centres that would need Nvidia’s know-how and hardware.
Facebook owner Meta Platforms plans to deploy into its data centres this year a new version of a custom chip aimed at supporting its artificial intelligence push, according to an internal company document.
Meta and Amazon on Thursday blew through expectations in their latest quarterly results as Big Tech continued to impress Wall Street.
US Apple Stores on Friday will start selling the Vision Pro, the tech giant’s US$3,499 mixed-reality headset and its first major release since the Apple Watch nine years ago.
