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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.
LATEST China Science NEWS

AstraZeneca unveils US$15 billion China investment as Starmer visits Beijing

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AstraZeneca’s US$15 billion China bet marks the biggest deal of Starmer’s Beijing trip. Photo: Shutterstock

How China’s 5,100-year-old dams challenge Western narratives on despotism

Remote sensing images of early water conservancy projects in China captured by the research team. Photo: Handout

Chinese AI goes next level in geometry at a top US maths Olympiad

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TongGeometry, a Chinese AI system, is designed to discover, propose, and prove International Mathematics Olympiad-level geometry problems. Photo: Xinhua

China’s chip breakthrough, Tang Dynasty armour restored: 7 science highlights

A fibre integrated circuit is a novel electronic device that is as thin as a strand of human hair. Photo: Handout

Chinese drug could help India’s Nipah virus surge: Wuhan Institute of Virology

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Researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology found that the drug increased survival rates among hamsters. Photo: AFP
MORE China Science NEWS
A humanoid robot is seen at the 2025 Global Industrial Internet Conference in Shenyang, Liaoning province, in September 2025. Photo: Xinhua
Robotics

China’s humanoid robot sales to double this year as costs fall: Morgan Stanley

The US investment bank revises its China robot sales forecast to 28,000 units this year, while its sees parts prices falling 16 per cent.

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China technology

China’s cloud giants race to support Moltbot, the ‘AI that actually does things’

China jobs

With AI in the driving seat, China moves to rein in job displacement risks

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Semiconductors

Alibaba’s T-Head unit unveils details of AI chip designed to rival Nvidia’s GPUs

The launch of the Zhenwu 810E marks the latest initiative by China’s Big Tech firms to develop a domestic alternative to Nvidia’s AI chips.

T-Head, the semiconductor design arm of Alibaba, promotes its Zhenwu 810E chip as capable for both AI training and inference. Photo: Handout
Semiconductors

Nvidia wins approval for Taiwan headquarters to secure AI chip supply

Jensen Huang’s expansion plan highlights Silicon Valley chip designer’s reliance on TSMC as AI demand accelerates.

Hong Kong weather

How AI model predicts heavy rainstorms 4 hours in advance

Hong Kong and mainland Chinese researchers have developed a pioneering AI model.

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United States

S&P 500 hits 7,000 for first time amid AI boom and rate cut hopes

AI and Big Tech earnings propel the surge, as rate cut expectations boost market confidence despite earlier jitters.

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A trader holds a cap reading “S&P 7,000” on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in July 2025. Photo: Reuters
Semiconductors

Hygon’s chips ‘safe’ from AMD security flaw amid China’s tech self-reliance push

That result shows Hygon’s efforts in redesigning the chip architecture licensed from AMD with self-developed innovations.

US-China relations

Would Chinese or US supply lines be more vulnerable in a Pacific conflict?

AI-assisted modelling by the Heritage Foundation finds critical risks to fuel and munitions on both sides.

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China trade

What haunts China’s investors? Geopolitics and a demographic abyss, survey finds

Weak domestic demand, shrinking confidence in the property market and a declining fertility rate fuel caution among investors in China’s major hubs.

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China’s plummeting birth rates present a daunting challenge, as the nation’s newborn population fell below 8 million in 2025 for the first time since 1949. Photo: AFP
United States

Amazon cuts 16,000 jobs amid AI shift, post-pandemic restructuring

The restructuring and cost-cutting come despite soaring profits and strategic hiring in key areas.

Amazon plans to cut its workforce worldwide to streamline operations and reduce bureaucracy across the company. Photo: Shutterstock
China technology

Moonshot’s newest release narrows US-China AI model development gap: analysts

Kimi K2.5 raises questions about the potency of US controls on advanced chips to constrain China’s AI efforts, Brookings’ Kyle Chan says.

Semiconductors

Beijing weighs H200 imports amid uncertainty for China tech giants

More than 400,000 H200 chips reportedly approved for ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent as China balances AI needs with tech self-reliance push.

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Jack Ma

‘Teach our children well’: Jack Ma urges changes to China’s education in AI era

China’s educators must teach students to ask thousands of good questions, rather than give the same correct answer, Ma says.

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Alibaba Group Holding founder Jack Ma speaks to Chinese rural teachers in a video conference call on Monday. Photo: Jack Ma Foundation
Alibaba Cloud

Price rises on horizon for Chinese cloud firms after Google, AWS set new rates

Surging AI workloads, memory prices push Chinese cloud providers to consider increases after global peers act.

Alibaba Cloud led China’s AI cloud sector in the first half of 2025 with a market share of 36 per cent. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)

Hong Kong’s Exchange Fund reports record earnings in 2025

The Exchange Fund’s full-year earnings jumped 51 per cent to HK$331 billion (US$42 billion), from HK$218.8 billion in 2024.

Hong Kong society

Warning over AI threats as Hong Kong hit by record number of cyberattacks

‘We need more top-down guidance on how to better use AI. This is an inevitable trend,’ Hong Kong Productivity Council says.

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Banking & finance

Hong Kong’s US$8 billion wealth fund eyes fintech, aerospace and AI for growth

The Hong Kong Investment Corporation will use the city’s advantages amid global competition, geopolitical challenges, CEO Clara Chan says.

The Hong Kong Investment Corporation made HK$2.34 billion in investment income in 2024, according to its annual report released in December. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Fintech

China second to US in global AI finance index, with Hong Kong third as city hub

China rated the strongest country in converting AI capacity into production use, while Hong Kong trailed New York and London as finance hub.

Japan

DeepSeek taps Alibaba open-source AI technology to boost OCR performance

The Chinese AI start-up says its latest OCR model delivers stronger performance after adopting an Alibaba-developed open-source model.

Semiconductors

Iluvatar CoreX targets Nvidia’s Rubin with GPU road map amid China chip push

Chinese chip designer outlines a multi-year GPU plan to outperform Nvidia’s next-generation Rubin platform within two years.

There is strong capital interest in Chinese chipmakers amid Beijing’s push for semiconductor self-reliance. Photo: Shutterstock
China economy

Opinion | How a rising China is becoming a provider of global public goods

When China provides the hi-tech, low-cost hardware of development and multilateral banks provide regulatory oversight, the Global South wins.

Workers check solar panels on a lake in Tianchang, eastern China’s Anhui province, on January 12. China’s industrial scale effectively functions as a “green” subsidy for the planet. Photo: AFP
Biomedicine: Industry Trends

China could approve first AI-designed drug next year, Merck executive says

AI and genetics are creating a ‘seismic shift’ in the pharmaceutical business, experts on Asian Financial Forum panel say.

Semiconductors

China’s manufacturing powerhouse Guangdong exports record chip equipment

Exports of chip equipment rose 20 per cent last year, while exports of EVs, lithium batteries and solar products rose 30 per cent.

OpenAI

China’s Alibaba, Moonshot claim latest AI models challenge OpenAI, Google

Alibaba says Qwen3-Max-Thinking is its ‘best model so far’, while Moonshot calls Kimi K2.5 the world’s most powerful open-source model.

The new models mark the first major Chinese releases this year. Photo: Shutterstock
Mainland China

China’s Baidu merges key app businesses to drive consumer AI push

Merger of Wenku and Wangpan into a new AI unit comes as tech firms race to turn their services and apps into the next ‘super app’.

Baidu’s move marks one of its largest reorganisations in the past two years. Photo: Shutterstock
China technology

Opinion | How Hangzhou’s tech ecosystem nurtures dragons and rockets

It’s not one factor but a ‘rainforest’ of policy, capital, talent, universities and research institutions operating within clear boundaries.

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Aerospace: Companies

Alibaba’s Qwen-3 becomes one of world’s first AI models to operate in orbit

The entire Qwen-3 process – from uploading queries to on-orbit inference and sending results back to Earth – took less than two minutes.

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