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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.
Talks between China and the United States on the future development of artificial intelligence have been constructive.
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China officially connected to the internet in April 1994. Today, its online influence is stronger than ever.
- 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
- Team uses molecular network screening tool, enhanced using machine learning, to find and examine impact of potentially carcinogenic unreported chemicals
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.
Economic Daily calls on employers to be aware of gender, age and birthplace bias when using artificial intelligence to assess candidates.
The Series B round comes less than a year after xAI’s debut and marks one of the bigger investments in the field.
Hong Kong private equity real estate firm Gaw Capital Partners acquires property in Japan with an eye on the artificial-intelligence boom.
Lenovo is well placed to compete in the global AI PC market because of its differentiated product offerings for China and the rest of the world, says a top company executive.
Post examines the latest trends and ways to guard against online fraudsters.
Doctors are working overtime to ease the caseload as a result of people taking advantage of free healthcare services in Thailand, industry players say.
Alibaba has emerged as a major backer of Moonshot AI, one of China’s hottest artificial intelligence start-ups, holding a 36 per cent stake in the firm.
The start-up, a rival to ChatGPT creator OpenAI, has been marketed to a range of Silicon Valley investors.
Nvidia’s H20 chip is being sold in some cases at more than a 10 per cent discount in China, compared to Huawei’s Ascend 910B, sources said.
The Chinese tech giant is selling up to US$5 billion worth of convertible bonds, while company leaders set e-commerce and cloud computing as its core businesses in a move ‘towards strategic clarity’.
In Netflix’s Atlas, Jennifer Lopez’s heroine must embrace AI to save humans from Simu Liu’s rogue android. The film offers few surprises and its wholehearted embrace of technology is off-putting.
SMIC accounted for 6 per cent of global chip foundry sales in the first quarter, behind industry leader TSMC’s 62 per cent share and Samsung’s 13 per cent share.
Chinese AI companies are waging a full-fledged price war in hopes of finding ways to commercialise their large language models, with Tencent the latest tech giant to slash prices for its products.
A new camera surveillance system can monitor a detainee’s vital signs, facial expressions and suicide risk.
Chinese AI start-up Baichuan said the fourth iteration of its namesake Baichuan 4 model is the most advanced large language model launched by a Chinese company.
Office of Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data says investigation has found Worldcoin’s operations in city posed ‘serious risks to personal data privacy’.
Along with Meta, OpenAI and Samsung, the companies committed to publishing safety frameworks for measuring risks.
Encode Justice, founded by 19-year-old US student Sneha Revanur, is pushing governments to take more concrete steps on AI regulation, with support from academics and officials.
Country’s top internet regulator promises a ‘secure and reliable’ system that is not open-sourced.
Huawei Technologies has launched an Arabic large language model and Egypt’s first public cloud service in Cairo as it eyes opportunities amid rising demand for generative artificial intelligence in the region.
Moonshot AI is in talks with investors for additional funding that will boost its valuation by US$500 million over its previous round in February.
Alibaba Cloud has slashed the fees for using its generative artificial intelligence models by up to 97 per cent, a week after ByteDance launched a rival service that costs less than most competitors.
Top political advisory body convenes more than 100 experts to discuss ways to boost workforce quality and modernisation.
The computers, which run chips from Qualcomm, are 58 per cent faster than Apple’s top-of-the-line MacBook Air M3, according to Microsoft.
Movie star Scarlett Johansson said she was ‘shocked’ by an OpenAI synthetic voice that sounds like her, which was released after she declined to work with the ChatGPT-maker on such a project.
