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Google is a US company providing internet-related products and services, including internet search, cloud computing, and software and advertising technologies. Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company has established itself in the mobile sector through its widely used Android operating system, and has a major presence in the smartphone market.
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Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai
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google.com
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Googleplex, Mountain View, California, U.S.
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NASDAQ:GOOG
NASDAQ:GOOGL
Year founded
1998
President Xi Jinping joins attendees for a group photo before the opening ceremony of the World AI Conference in China on Friday. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

US-China AI rivalry becomes a battle to export competing tech governance visions

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US-China relations

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Former fighters say AI helped with bomb-making, planning and propaganda, raising calls for US-China action on terrorist misuse of chatbots.

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Artificial intelligence

What are AI ‘world models’ and why is China becoming a top testing ground?

Increasingly, AI systems are expected to predict how environments will respond to actions before they are taken.

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Why Chinese AI labs like DeepSeek and Zhipu are looking beyond models to chips

Custom silicon allows for hardware optimisation tailored to specific architectures, such as the DeepSeek-R1 model.

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Science

Google DeepMind director Cao Liangliang makes a boomerang return to Hong Kong

After a journey including study under luminaries in computer vision and AI sectors, Cao brings Silicon Valley experience to PolyU.

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Machine learning and computer vision expert Cao Liangliang says his appointment as chair professor of data science and artificial intelligence at PolyU is “a full-circle moment for me”. Photo: Handout
Australia

YouTube says Sydney massacre ‘crisis actor’ video can stay online

The video calls an Isis-inspired attack that left 15 dead a ‘false flag operation’, an Australian inquiry heard.

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Hong Kong economy

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Eddie Yue urges city’s banks to safeguard against stock market correction coinciding with geopolitical events triggering inflation anxieties.

Corruption in Asia

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Nadiem Makarim was ordered to return over 800 billion rupiah (US$45 million) in addition to pay a 1 billion rupiah fine in what rights activists call a politically motivated case.

Nadiem Makarim (R), Indonesia’s former education minister and co-founder of ride hailing company Gojek, arrives for a verdict hearing at the Central Jakarta District Court in Jakarta on June 30, 2026, in a corruption case related to the procurement of Chromebook laptops for schools during the Covid-19 pandemic. Judges found him guilty of corruption, sentencing him to 10 years in prison. The court also ordered Nadiem to pay a fine of 1 billion rupiah ($55,850) and 809 billion rupiah (more than $45 million) in restitution, or serve an additional prison term. (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP)
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South Korea

South Korea ‘fake news’ law triggers free speech, censorship fears

The scope extends beyond social media to malicious reviews and defamatory posts on online communities, delivery apps and shopping platforms.

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Indonesia

Does Gojek co-founder’s guilty verdict test Indonesia’s investor climate?

Ex-education minister Nadiem Makarim has been sentenced to 10 years’ jail for abusing his authority over the procurement of school laptops.

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Artificial intelligence

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Just as geopolitical influence in the 20th century often rested on energy markets, so may the 21st century be dominated by infrastructure.

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Artificial intelligence

Meituan claims China’s biggest AI model trained on local chips

LongCat-2.0 boasts 1.6 trillion parameters and a million-token context window, on par with DeepSeek’s latest flagship model.

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ByteDance

Exclusive | ByteDance targets early next year for next-generation CPU: sources

To accelerate development and help secure foundry capacity, ByteDance is collaborating with US chipmaker Qualcomm.

ByteDance is seeking wider deployment of its self-developed hardware across its own AI infrastructure. Photo: NurPhoto via Getty Images
Hong Kong society

Experts offer tips to secure data after Mirror star Stanley Yau loses phone

Hong Kong experts share tips on how to prevent data breaches after Cantopop star’s lost iPhone ends up in neighbouring Shenzhen.

United States

US billionaire Leon Black defends US$158 million paid to Epstein

‘I knew Jekyll. I didn’t know Hyde,’ the investor – who features prominently in the Epstein files – told US lawmakers.

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Semiconductors

Kuaishou chip spin-off taps funding for in-house designs amid export controls

TranStreams raises an undisclosed amount in a Series A+ financing round this week led by QF Capital.

The Kuaishou booth at the 2025AWE show in Shanghai, March 20, 2025. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images
Artificial intelligence

Huawei and Cambricon tighten grip on China’s AI chip market as Nvidia slips

Huawei and Cambricon are set to dominate China’s AI server market as geopolitics and self-reliance accelerate Nvidia’s retreat.

The Future of Marketing in Asia

Marketing guru Sorrell says AI will dismantle the old order

Industry legend maps out how AI will shrink creative teams, supercharge hyper-personalisation and turn media buying into an algorithmic science.

India

‘Donald Trump Avenue’: Indian tech hub renames road

The move, in an opposition-ruled area, comes as the party accuses the PM of not ⁠taking Trump on ⁠on issues like tariffs and sailors’ deaths.

In honour of the United States’ 250th birthday, Telangana’s Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu unveiled a plaque officially renaming a road beside the US Consulate as 'Donald Trump Avenue'. Photo: X/USAndHyderabad
Semiconductors

Forget memory chips: MLCCs are Shenzhen’s newest gold rush

Huaqiangbei traders are racing to secure MLCC supplies as soaring AI demand pushes prices sharply higher across the market.

Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) have become one of the hottest components in the electronics supply chain as demand from AI servers and electric vehicles drives prices higher. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

AI for less: price war in China deepens amid ‘intense’ competition

Narrowing capability gaps between models and falling costs of service set stage for price reductions to continue, analysts say.

Artificial intelligence

AI | AI’s next frontier, world models, and why China is leading

AI models that understand the workings of the physical world and can simulate it will give the technology more human-like powers and drive embodied intelligence.

Donald Trump

Trump threatens 100% tariff on French wines over digital tax

The US is the biggest importing country for French wines and spirits, accounting for 21 per cent of the overall export market last year.

Bottles of French wine are displayed for sale in a liquor store in 2019 in Arlington, Virginia. Photo: AFP
Stocks

Macroscope | Moment of truth is coming for the AI stock boom

Tech barons are seeking to raise outrageous sums before the balloon goes up. If it does, where will portfolio investment go?

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SpaceX initial public offering signage in the Morgan Stanley building in New York on June 9. Photo: Reuters
Millionaires, billionaires and trillionaires

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Smartphones

Huawei arms HarmonyOS with 2,000 AI agents in challenge to Apple

HarmonyOS 7 introduces an agent-friendly architecture and upgraded AI assistant as Huawei seeks to capitalise on Apple’s China AI gap.

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