Hong Kong roars ahead as top wealth hub, overtaking Singapore
Hong Kong has seen a sharp increase in wealthy clients opening accounts to manage their assets this year,…
Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek
Reflection AI, a startup founded just last year by two former Google DeepMind researchers, has raised $2 billion…
AI is creeping into our court system. Will it undermine justice?
Artificial intelligence is coming for the law. Are we ready for robots to become judge and jury? When…
US-China on divergent paths in race for AI supremacy
The race to build artificial intelligence-driven economies is transforming how the global economy and societies are organized. Breakthroughs…
Hong Kong’s huge year of IPOs continues, with annual crown all but assured
Funds raised from new share sales in Hong Kong jumped 221 per cent in the first nine months…
DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app…
DeepSeek releases ‘sparse attention’ model that cuts API costs in half
Researchers at DeepSeek on Monday released a new experimental model called V3.2-exp, designed to have dramatically lower inference…
Home-grown heroes: how Huawei and DeepSeek are helping China break reliance on US chips
When Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek unveiled an updated foundational model late in August, investors in Nvidia were…
China’s banks face their ‘Japanification moment’, S&P report warns
China’s banks are edging towards their “Japanification moment”, as years of yielding margins to support the economy have…
Domesticization Hopes Sprouting in the Era of Large Models
According to a report by Xin Dongxi on September 17th, today, the 2025 Global AI Chip Summit was…
Open Questions | Dong Yu on why ‘every chapter’ of China’s 5-year plans boils down to income
Dong Yu has been executive vice-president of the China Institute for Development Planning at Tsinghua University since 2019.…
What makes China confident enough to ban microchips made by US firm Nvidia?
Beijing’s decision this week to ban Chinese companies from using microchips made by US firm Nvidia indicates the…