The price of AI services in China plummeted in May after ByteDance kicked off a price war by pricing access to its LLMs at 99.8 per cent below GPT-4.

Readers discuss OpenAIs’ use of a synthetic voice evoking Scarlett Johansson, how a four-day work week could benefit Hong Kong’s labour market, and the importance of work-life balance for teachers

‘There are necessary opportunities for collaboration,’ Elizabeth Allen, the department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, says, while conceding the prospect for disruption remains huge.

The new system will allow Siri to take command of all the features within apps for the first time, with the help of large language models, sources say.

The numbers underscore the pace at which demand is outstripping supply as customers rev up their purchases of devices needed to develop AI technologies.

Washington has delayed the issuing of export licences to Nvidia and AMD, partly over worries that Chinese companies could access AI chips through data centres in the Middle East.

The issue of equity needs to be addressed – students from all backgrounds must have access to AI tools and the promise they hold

AI is ‘going through a kind of a bubble right now’, the Nobel Prize-winning economist said, suggesting that limits to the technology’s capabilities could soon set in.

Taiwan’s pre-eminence in semiconductors is at an all-time high, as the island welcomes Huang and the CEOs of AMD, Intel, Qualcomm and Arm Holdings to Computex 2024.

An image shared by millions in response to an Israeli strike that killed dozens of civilians represents a new form of AI-generated activist imagery.

The covert campaigns used the ChatGPT- maker’s AI tools to try to manipulate public opinion or shape political outcomes.

Yuanbao can be used to analyse and summarise documents, provide questions and answers, and generate texts and images.

Zhejiang Jingzhunxue, whose CEO is an Alibaba alumnus, received 200 million yuan from the e-commerce giant to develop an interactive AI education tool.

Three-year plan puts artificial intelligence at the centre of Beijing’s ambitions to achieve hi-tech self-reliance and catch up with the US.

The company will provide the enterprise version of ChatGPT to its 75,000 US employees and 26,000 UK employees.

Readers discuss how organisations can outsmart the scammers, the post office’s ‘user pays’ principle, tackling food waste as a start, and the vandalism of the grave of a beloved Hong Kong musician.

Huawei’s chips are becoming popular components in Chinese-made AI boxes, but the pace of the firm’s ascendancy will depend on how quickly it can ramp up production.

A recently launched filter that makes photos look like Wallace and Gromit characters is proving a sensation in China as people flock to look “cute-ugly”.

Helen Toner says board members did not know about the 2022 launch of ChatGPT until they saw an announcement on Twitter.

Chinese AI pioneer SenseTime is aiming for profitability within the next two years as revenue from its generative AI business tripled last year, and is expected to become the firm’s new profit engine.

The internet giant’s Oracle Bones Corpus provides an artificial intelligence-powered online database dedicated to the study of the ancient inscriptions on oracle bones.

Southeast Asian countries are vying fiercely for chip investment as tech giants seek to manage the fallout of US tech sanctions against China.

PFAS, widely used due to resistance to oil, water and heat, has been restricted or banned around the world but use of substitutes is hard to track.

The departure of AI experts from these Big Tech firms reflects increased investor interest in start-ups that could become the next OpenAI.

Generative AI is adding uncertainty to an already uncertain world, but Hong Kong can cope with the challenges by leveraging its hub status and acting as a gateway to China, according to HSBC’s Peter Wong.