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14 Apr Tech war: China pushes forward self-reliance campaign amid unrelenting US sanctions

Posted at 02:00h in Asia

They include chip design companies Loongson Technology and Sophgo Technologies, cloud computing and server vendor Inspur Group, Huawei Technologies’ big-data solutions unit Kunpeng, cybersecurity solutions start-up KML Technology Group and operating system specialist UnioTech Software.Tongming Lake IT City covers an area bigger than 500 football...

10 Apr Microsoft’s head of Responsible AI flags cybersecurity dangers and benefits of the new tech at HSBC summit

Posted at 14:30h in Asia

The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI), the powerful tool behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT, could push the capabilities of cyberattacks to new heights while also offering new defence mechanisms, but most organisations are still learning to harness the tool, according to one of Microsoft’s leading AI...

10 Apr TSMC’s sales surge most since 2022 after riding AI chip boom

Posted at 12:43h in Asia

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s quarterly revenue grew at its fastest pace in more than a year, shoring up expectations that a global boom in artificial intelligence (AI) development is fuelling demand for high-end chips and servers.The main chip maker to Nvidia and Apple reported a...

10 Apr Microsoft’s Blizzard resumes NetEase partnership, bringing World of Warcraft back to Chinese players after bitter break-up

Posted at 05:10h in Asia

Blizzard Entertainment, the video game giant behind World of Warcraft, is resuming its partnership with NetEase under its new owner Microsoft, marking a revival of the most enduring US-China video game partnership that had an acrimonious break-up over a year ago.Confirming an earlier South China...

09 Apr Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase to renew partnership this week, bringing games like World of Warcraft back to China

Posted at 13:00h in Asia

Blizzard Entertainment, the video game giant behind of World of Warcraft, and long-time Chinese partner NetEase are expected to announce a new deal this week that will allow for a highly anticipated comeback to the country.The two companies are expected to announce on Wednesday that...

05 Apr Opinion | Why world cannot rely on tech giants to solve its problems

Posted at 12:30h in Asia

The Kennedy-era guru on capitalism John Kenneth Galbraith presciently proclaimed in his 1967 book, The New Industrial State, that “the imperatives of technology and organisation, not the images of ideology, are what determine the shape of economic society”.According to the World Inequality Report 2022 stated,...

19 Mar Nvidia unveils new AI ‘superchip’ line-up Blackwell, succeeding dominant H100 chip banned from sale to China

Posted at 04:49h in Asia

Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang showed off new chips aimed at extending his company’s dominance of artificial intelligence computing, a position that’s already made it the world’s third-most-valuable business.A new processor design called Blackwell is multiple times faster at handling the models that underpin...

15 Mar Tencent’s new AI video-generation tool brings static images to life in collaboration with Tsinghua and HKUST

Posted at 13:10h in Asia

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings has introduced an image-to-video artificial intelligence (AI) model in collaboration with academic partners on Friday, a release that comes amid the rising fervour around content-generating tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora.The image-animation tool called Follow-Your-Click, released on Microsoft’s open-source code...

02 Mar Opinion | Why stock market stars are at odds with real world’s investment needs

Posted at 08:30h in Asia

We should be asking much deeper questions now than simply about whether and when another stock market bubble burst might come. We should be re-examining the role of private and public sectors in allocating financial resources to the global economy. Failure to do this could...

27 Feb ‘Shining on international stage’: Chinese developers of OpenAI’s text-to-video generator Sora receive acclaim at home

Posted at 11:00h in Asia

At least two Chinese developers involved in building Sora, the newly released text-to-video generator from ChatGPT creator OpenAI, have received acclaim on the mainland for their efforts, showing how the advanced generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology has ignited interest across the country where the Microsoft-backed...

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