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Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei Technologies. Photo: Kyodo
Semiconductors

Huawei founder sheds light on China’s strategy to overcome US curbs

Ren Zhengfei’s comments underscore Huawei’s commitment to achieving chip self-sufficiency, with compound semiconductors playing a key role.

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Semiconductors

Chinese academy launches automated system to speed up chip design

Artificial intelligence

The kids are alright: Hong Kong AI scientist offers a vision for ‘parenting’ AI

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Robotics

Beijing academy unveils ‘RoboBrain’ AI model for China’s humanoids

The launch comes amid efforts to leverage rapidly advancing AI technology to improve the capability of robots.

Visitors watch a robot performing during the world robot carnival in Wuhan this week. Photo: Xinhua
China jobs

AI might solve China’s labour woes, but could also fuel deflation, report says

Morgan Stanley analysts say companies’ spending on artificial intelligence might lead to reduced hiring in an already-weak employment market.

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Huawei

Huawei claims better AI training method than DeepSeek using own chips

Huawei’s progress in AI model architecture could prove significant, as the company seeks to reduce its reliance on US technologies.

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Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek rekindles US venture capital’s interest in China’s AI scene

Thrive Capital and Capital Group have made separate visits to the country to discuss AI with local companies and funds, sources say.

An interactive robot seen at an AI exhibit in an expo in Nanning, Guangxi. Photo: Xinhua
Artificial intelligence

Exclusive | BTG Pactual eyes Hong Kong growth as China, Brazil strengthen ties

BTG took a delegation of more than two dozen Brazilian entrepreneurs and family offices on a tour of Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong last week.

Artificial intelligence

XPrize founder Diamandis projects hope for AI, biotech amid US-China tech war

The entrepreneur says biotech should be less contentious than AI, as a breakthrough in Beijing is just as usable in Boston.

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Asean

Opinion | As Malaysia’s Huawei chip storm shows, sovereign AI is a fraught pursuit

For third states, what is there to differentiate a Chinese AI stack from an US one when both lock in external reliance in the longer term?

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Southeast Asian countries must walk the tightrope between technological autonomy and fracturing geopolitical realities. Photo: Shutterstock
Foxconn

Foxconn expects robust revenue growth from AI despite US tariffs

The world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer plans to enter the US market by the end of this year, chairman Young Liu says.

Foxconn’s headquarters in New Taipei City. Photo: AFP
Nvidia

Nvidia gives solid forecast, even as China slump mars growth

While the chipmaker is being squeezed out of China, other Trump policy changes may help open up additional markets, such as the Middle East.

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US-China trade war

Trump changed Biden’s AI chip rules. What now, will it affect China trade talks?

In tech supremacy battle, Trump undoes Biden-era rule, prompting warning that controls over Chinese chips may make their ecosystem stronger.

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Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek 2.0? Shanghai quant fund claims AI training breakthrough

Goku says in a paper submitted to the ‘AI Olympics’ that its training method is superior to those adopted by DeepSeek, OpenAI.

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Shanghai Goku Technologies, a quantitative fund, has established an AI subsidiary, following the path of Hangzhou-based DeepSeek. Photo: Screenshot
China's military weapons

How China’s military might use anti-AI tactics on the battlefields of the future

For the first time, the official PLA Daily spells out how it might target an enemy’s AI combat models.

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For China’s military, the increasing prevalence of AI on the battlefield is introducing concepts of data pollution and damaging model learning while maximising its own use of AI. Image: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

Nvidia CEO blasts US AI chip restrictions on China as a ‘failure’

‘Power is quite cost-effective in China. And there’s plenty of land. And so the ban on H20 is not effective,’ Jensen Huang told reporters at Computex.

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Science

AI scientist Zhang Chengqi leaves Australia to teach in China

Zhang’s rural roots and social circumstances delayed university entry, but once admitted he was among the first in China to study AI in 1980s.

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Semiconductors

Nvidia’s Huang teases new Taiwan office, supercomputer plans in Computex speech

In his keynote speech at Computex in Taipei, Jensen Huang said Nvidia secured a lease for a new property and is partnering with local firms, including Foxconn.

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Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote speech for Computex 2025 in Taipei on May 19. Photo: AFP
Semiconductors

Nvidia’s two-ton AI systems not easily smuggled to China, CEO says

Huang spoke after joining a US delegation to the Middle East led by President Donald Trump, lauding the opening up of trade of Nvidia’s hardware.

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US-China tech war

US curbs on Huawei chips add uncertainty to China’s AI investment

New guidance on US export rules could deter Chinese firms with global ambitions from using Huawei processors, analysts say.

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Semiconductors

US lawmakers introduce bill to stop smuggling of AI chips to China

Some chips have continued to flow to China despite the US seeking to clamp down on their export.

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Data centre servers and components containing the newest AI chips from Nvidia. Photo: Reuters
Technology

Opinion | Beware the hubris of an AI narrative centred on the US and China

It would be a mistake to neglect the agency of states, multinational organisations and powerful firms not fully aligned with either side.

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US President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after signing executive orders, including on AI, in the Oval Office at the White House on April 23. Photo: EPA-EFE
Huawei

Huawei unveils a HarmonyOS laptop, its first Windows-free computer

The device features Huawei’s AI assistant and a wide range of Chinese software, including WPS and Alibaba’s DingTalk.

Artificial intelligence

Beijing pours tens of millions of dollars into fostering Chinese AI

The Yizhuang Development Zone aims to establish a nationally leading AI industry ecosystem using only Chinese technology.

Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek’s AI system gets faster with Tencent’s open-source boost

The leading Chinese AI start-up has adopted an open-source technical solution from Tencent, leading to a ‘huge speed boost’.

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DeepSeek says it has used an open-source technical solution from Tencent to improve its AI system. Photo: Shutterstock
DeepSeek

DeepSeek tech is ‘overblown’ and not a threat, Anthropic co-founder says

Jack Clark, a former journalist turned AI policy expert, said DeepSeek ‘might become a closer competitor’ if it had access to more computing resources.

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An Anthropic co-founder has dismissed progress from DeepSeek as people await the Chinese start-up’s next-generation R2 reasoning model. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

Nvidia raises concerns about Huawei’s growing AI chip capabilities

US export restrictions on Nvidia’s chips to China could make Huawei’s chips more competitive, CEO Jensen Huang says.

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US-China tech war

Chinese AI and robotics start-ups respond to Xi’s self-reliance call

The Chinese president met representatives from several AI and robotics start-ups during a visit to Shanghai.

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