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last updated:
9 September, 2024
Elon Musk (left) and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11. Photo: TNS
United States

Elon Musk urges US to ‘delete entire agencies’ from federal government

Musk offered a wide-ranging survey via a videocall to the World Governments Summit in Dubai.

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Artificial intelligence

Baidu to offer Ernie Bot service for free as DeepSeek heats up China’s AI market

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China technology

Opinion | Rethinking AI development: maximum intelligence vs useful applications

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Artificial intelligence

OpenAI to simplify product offerings, merging o3 with GPT-5

US companies face greater investor scrutiny over their massive spending after Chinese start-up DeepSeek unveiled a low-cost AI model.

OpenAI will not release o3 as a stand-alone model, CEO Sam Atlman says. Photo: AP Photo
United States

Grimes speaks out after Elon Musk brings their son to Trump press conference

Four-year-old X Æ A-Xii ‘should not be in public like this’, the singer said after the child was seen climbing on his dad at the White House.

China technology

Opinion | Can DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng stay true to his AI ideals?

While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s altruistic vision has turned pragmatic, Liang, whose open-source tech is free to share, has loftier aims for now.

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Artificial intelligence

OpenAI keen ‘to work with China’, CEO Sam Altman says, amid DeepSeek’s advances

Altman’s about-face from OpenAI’s tough stance on China reflects how Hangzhou-based start-up DeepSeek upended the global AI industry.

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OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman says it is important for the company to collaborate with China. Photo: Shutterstock
Donald Trump

Musk defends US cuts as son X steals show in Oval Office appearance

Elon Musk, with President Donald Trump at the White House, says the US will go ‘bankrupt’ without cuts.

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YouTube and YouTubers

YouTube, the global online video powerhouse, turns 20

More than 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

DeepSeek

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says DeepSeek does ‘nice work’ with AI chatbot

The CEO of the ChatGPT creator also says he is going to meet the Chinese start-up, thought not at the AI Action Summit in Paris.

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Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Photo: Reuters
Donald Trump

Musk flexes his power in Washington as DOGE shakes US government agencies

Elon Musk’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ is reshaping US federal agencies with significant power and minimal oversight.

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Elon Musk: the world’s richest man and the leader of the US president’s cost-cutting efforts. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

Elon Musk says he doesn’t want to buy TikTok’s US business after all

‘I usually build companies from scratch,’, said the tech billionaire, who bought Twitter and renamed it X.

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DeepSeek

DeepSeek attracts China’s young jobseekers as AI firm ramps up recruitment

The Hangzhou-based start-up has opened spots for dozens of jobs related to research and development in artificial general intelligence.

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Artificial intelligence

What’s next for DeepSeek? AI start-up stays mum amid post-holiday plaudits

A researcher’s February 1 social-media post, which has since been removed, hinted use of ‘reinforcement learning’ to advance its AI systems.

DeepSeek employees are staying vigilant on guarding sensitive corporate information amid the Chinese company’s rising global recognition. Photo: Shutterstock
Fame and celebrity

Josh Hall, who? Meet Christina Haack’s new CEO boyfriend, Christopher Larocca

Christina Haack just hard launched her relationship with new boyfriend Christopher Larocca – right after ex-husband Josh Hall debuted his new girlfriend, Stephanie Gabrys, on Instagram.

Christina Haack and her new boyfriend, Christopher Larocca. Photos: @theheatherraeelmoussa/Instagram, Christopher Larocca/LinkedIn
Artificial intelligence

China’s DeepSeek gives Europe’s tech firms a way to catch up in global AI race

DeepSeek represents ‘a significant step forward in democratising AI’ for Europe’s tech start-ups, according to executives.

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DeepSeek

DeepSeek founder gets hero’s welcome in Lunar New Year hometown visit

Liang Wenfeng’s hometown in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, is now a tourist attraction based on its DeepSeek connection, local reports say.

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Robotics

Chinese start-up Unitree sees humanoid robots in wide commercial use this decade

Unitree forecasts a breakthrough in humanoid robot capabilities by 2026, when more clear-cut commercial uses are expected to emerge.

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Unitree’s G1 humanoid robot shakes the hand of an attendee at the CES trade show in Las Vegas on January 8. Photo: AP
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba springs a Lunar New Year surprise on DeepSeek, global AI market

Alibaba touts that its new Qwen 2.5-Max AI model had ‘comprehensively outperformed’ DeepSeek-V3 in certain benchmark tests.

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Artificial intelligence

Explainer | How start-up DeepSeek emerged as the unlikely game changer in US-China AI war

From visionary founder Liang Wenfeng to a young team of dedicated scientists, DeepSeek is taking the road less traveled in AI.

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Robotics

Chinese robotics start-up pushes large cleaning robots in Hong Kong, Macau

Suzhou Intelligence Technology’s cleaning robots are used in large commercial establishments, such as shopping centres and airports.

Suzhou Intelligence Technology’s commercial-grade cleaning robot shown at an event. Photo: Suzhou Intelligence Technology
Artificial intelligence

China poised to expand AI infrastructure to keep pace with US Stargate project

Chinese local governments, telecommunications firms and Big Tech companies have been building new AI facilities over the past few years.

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The US-China rivalry in artificial intelligence has widened to cover the digital infrastructure used to drive the technology’s development. Photo: Shutterstock
Donald Trump

Musk questions US$500 billion AI megaproject backed by Trump

World’s richest man Musk clashes with OpenAI CEO Altman over Trump-supported Stargate AI data centre project.

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Timepieces

Take a peek at Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg’s expanding luxury watch collection

The tech centibillionaire has been amassing a collection of rare timepieces by the likes of F.P. Journe and De Bethune, ever since a Richard Mille exemplar caught his eye at Anant Ambani’s wedding.

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US-China tech war

Nvidia CEO concludes whirlwind Taiwan tour after key meetings

Jensen Huang met top industry leaders, including TSMC founder Morris Chang and Foxconn chairman Liu Young-way.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrives for Nvidia’s end-of-year party in Taipei. Photo: AFP
European Union

Telegram boss faces French magistrates over app’s role in organised crime

Extracts from Durov’s questioning show he initially blamed French authorities for failing to alert Telegram to alleged criminal activity.

Telegram was co-founded by Pavel Durov. Photo: AFP
Honor

Honor brings on Huawei veteran to lead firm as CEO George Zhao Ming resigns

Honor’s leadership shuffle could add some degree of uncertainty to the company’s preparations for an initial public offering.

TSMC

TSMC’s US plant unlikely to get latest chip technology ahead of Taiwan, CEO says

Apple and Nvidia chip supplier TSMC is spending US$65 billion on three giant factories in the state of Arizona.

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