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

Hydrogen power sector has been regarded as a source of new economic growth following China’s success with electric vehicles, lithium batteries and solar cells, but a recent setback reflects how nascent the industry is.

TikTok calls report that it is cloning its recommendation algorithm for US users to prepare for a potential divestment ‘misleading’ and ‘inaccurate’.

The South Korean giant’s market share dropped to under a quarter from more than half a year earlier, while Huawei’s share rose to 35 per cent.

Breakthrough structure developed by Chinese scientists could threaten America’s dominance of engine technology.

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.

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.

The Chinese state-owned carmaker said it plans to intensify its push into Hong Kong’s electric vehicle market by setting itself an ambitious target of 4,000 sales in the city by the end of this year.

The ban, intended to ‘safeguard national security’, will take effect on July 1, and major export destinations of some banned materials in recent months included the US and Israel.

Tianqi constellation to comprise 38 small satellites for data connectivity via smart devices, with expansion expected to include military applications, says developer and operator Guodian Gaoke.

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

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.

Some NFT firms and platforms do not have the right controls to counter money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions evasion, according to the department’s assessment.

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.

The Singaporean lender’s digital banking capability will increase substantially and lead to greater use of AI and machine learning in its products and services, CEO Helen Wong says.

The EV maker has unveiled a new version of its plug-in hybrid technology that it hopes will encourage more widespread adoption of electric cars in China, ratcheting up pressure on traditional carmakers like VW and General Motors.

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.

Richard Liu lashes out at employees as the Chinese e-commerce giant tries to run a tighter ship amid rising competition and a weak economy.

Shares of the parent of Temu and Pinduoduo are being held back by geopolitical risks and fierce competition in China’s e-commerce sector.