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Visitors flock to Hangzhou-based Rokid’s eye-catching exhibition booth at the CES trade show in Las Vegas. Photo: Wency Chen
Artificial intelligence

Chinese smart eyewear makers shine at CES with focus on challenging Meta

‘The rise of smart glasses is riding directly on advances in AI,’ LLVision founder and CEO Wu Fei says.

Artificial intelligence

Chinese robot vacuum maker Dreame sees AI-driven appliances run household chores

Robotics

China’s humanoid robot makers, Hong Kong start-ups set to dazzle CES 2026

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United States

Musk’s Grok AI faces scrutiny over complaints it undressed minors in photos

Grok AI under fire for enabling erotic images of minors, violating its own policy, sparking urgent safety fixes and global investigations.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has recently generated sexualised images of people, including minors, on X in response to user prompts. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence

China takes confident strides to develop more AI innovation in 2026

‘China’s tech innovation is poised for policy-driven growth in 2026, with AI placed at the centre of the country’s economic agenda,’ NYU’s Winston Ma says.

Artificial intelligence

China-founded Tripo AI updates 3D content platform as users more than double

‘This shows that we’re on the right track,’ founder and CEO Simon Song Yachen says.

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Science

How China’s US$150,000 robot start-up beat Elon Musk in 2 years

EngineAI robot delivers forceful Bruce Lee-style kicks, while Musk’s Optimus jogs a few steps and falls over while handing out water bottle.

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EngineAI Robotics’ humanoid T800 is capable of delivering Bruce Lee-style roundhouse kicks with great force. Photo: Handout
Semiconductors

China’s Moore Threads to unveil AI chip road map to rival Nvidia’s CUDA system

Founder Zhang Jianzhong is expected to launch the firm’s next-generation AI chip architecture and MUSA platform road map in Beijing.

Robotics

China’s Deep Robotics raises US$70 million as sector draws more investors

Company founder Zhu Qiuguo says the new funding would be used for research and the recruitment of top robotics talent.

Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng among top 10 ‘people who shaped science in 2025’

British journal Nature’s top 10 list gives credit to the man behind the widely acclaimed, Chinese-developed R1 reasoning AI model.

DeepSeek founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng. Photo: Shutterstock
European Union

EU hits Musk’s X with US$140 million fine, risking Trump’s ire

US Vice-President J.D. Vance fired a warning against ‘attacking’ US firms through ‘censorship’ before the penalty was even made public.

Elon Musk looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washingto in November. Photo: AFP
Blockchain

Crypto giant Binance appoints co-founder He Yi as co-CEO

He, who has children together with founder Zhao Changpeng, will share the title with Richard Teng.

US-China relations

Nvidia CEO meets Trump, says he’s not sure if China would accept H200 chips

He says he and the US president discussed export controls before he met lawmakers on the Senate Banking Committee.

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Tencent

Elon Musk reiterates aim to transform X into a ‘WeChat++’ super app

Users ‘live their life on WeChat in China’ and there is no equivalent app elsewhere in the world, the entrepreneur says.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

Chinese tech giants from Kuaishou to Tencent reap early gains from big AI bets

Executives double down on long-term AI growth, as return-on-investment culture cushions tech companies amid worries over costs, analysts say.

Kuaishou attributes its third-quarter revenue growth to the use of AI technology. Photo: Ben Jiang
Artificial intelligence

Lenovo downplays surge in memory chip prices, pushes AI agent for devices

The world’s largest personal computer maker posts record sales of US$20.5 billion in the September quarter.

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia’s strong forecast calms AI bubble jitters, for now

Shares of the chip designer jump 5 per cent in extended trading after falling nearly 8 per cent in November.

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Ant Group

Alibaba founder Jack Ma visits Ant Group as fintech giant ramps up AI efforts

Ma’s visit marks almost a year since he publicly endorsed Ant Group’s AI initiatives during the firm’s 20th anniversary.

Jack Ma, wearing a white cap, walks alongside Ant Group chairman Eric Jing Xiandong (left) and CEO Cyril Han Xinyi at the fintech giant’s campus in Hangzhou. Photo: Handout
Donald Trump

Ronaldo, Musk attend Trump’s White House dinner with Saudi crown prince

Elon Musk was among business titans invited to the gala dinner, as tensions with Donald Trump thaw.

United States

ChatGPT and X among sites disrupted in worldwide Cloudflare outage

The company, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, says a fix has been deployed and services restored.

United States

Opinion | With AI looking increasingly like a liability, a storm is coming

It is the tech sector’s projected spending that points to trouble ahead. Are investors prepared to wait for the return on their investment?

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Data centre servers and components containing the newest AI chips from Nvidia are displayed at the company’s GTC software developer conference in San Jose, California on March 19. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

China’s Moonshot claims to build models with fewer AI chips than US rivals

In a Reddit forum, a Moonshot AI executive says start-up is ‘outnumbered’ by US rivals in terms of ‘high-end GPUs’ used for training models.

Kimi K2 Thinking was trained on Nvidia’s older H800 graphics processing units, according to a Moonshot AI executive. Photo: Shutterstock
Technology

‘Western tech dominance fading,’ Web Summit CEO says at ‘Davos for geeks’

Paddy Cosgrave says that situation is clearer ‘this year, more than any year before’, which is evidence of a multipolar tech industry.

Artificial intelligence

Intel CEO to oversee its AI efforts after executive departs for OpenAI

CEO Tan Lip-bu will take over the chipmaker’s artificial intelligence efforts after AI chief Sachin Katti leaves to join OpenAI.

DeepSeek

China’s DeepSeek makes rare comment, calls for AI ‘whistle-blower’ on job losses

Remarks by CEO Liang Wenfeng’s delegate highlight potential dangers of race to build superintelligent systems.

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Founders and top executives of companies collectively known as China’s “six little dragons” of AI attend the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

Sam Altman says OpenAI does not want a government bailout for AI

The CEO says OpenAI only had discussions about ‘loan guarantees’ for building chip fabrication plants in the US.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Photo: Reuters
United States

Tesla shareholders approve stratospheric US$1 trillion Musk pay package

The unprecedented agreement paves the way for the world’s richest person to become the first trillionaire.

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United States

Trump again nominates Musk ally Isaacman to be Nasa chief

The billionaire private astronaut was renominated six months after the US president withdrew his initial choice amid a bitter row with Elon Musk.

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