Pared-back Sigma showroom lets photo paraphernalia come into focus
Cameras and photographic lenses take centre stage in this minimalist showroom that Chinese firm Onoaa Studio has created…
PBOC Forces Rethink of Rate-Cut Path as Goldman Sees Longer Halt
Global lenders like Goldman Sachs Group Inc. retracted calls for further monetary stimulus in China this year after…
Rising star mathematician Wu Meng returns to China from Finland
In the 1960s, mathematician Hillel Furstenberg proposed a conjecture: that a number cannot appear “simple and highly regular”…
Chip scare sends Brussels back to the drawing board – POLITICO
Experts argue Brussels needs to examine the entire chip industry, rather than focusing on providing billions of subsidies…
China Deploys ‘Big Data’ in Crackdown on Overseas Trading Income
Chinese authorities stepped up efforts to collect taxes from citizens with overseas investment income as part of a…
China Banks Issue Phantom Loans to Hit Targets in Slow Economy
Jerry Hu, who owns an auto-parts firm in eastern China, was approached in October with a strange request.…
ByteDance unveils China’s most affordable AI coding agent at just US$1.30 a month
Volcano Engine, the cloud unit of TikTok owner ByteDance, has launched a new coding agent priced at just…
Is China about to win the AI race?
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI…In this edition: Is China about to win the AI race?…AI reasoning…
Canada Pension Plan Raises €815 Million in EDP Share Sale
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, one of the world’s largest pension funds, raised about €814.7 million ($942.6…
China’s average school day is 2 hours longer than the U.S., with all studies and no extracurriculars. The results could help it win the AI race
The U.S. and China’s rivalry isn’t just ramping up in trade or technology—it’s playing out in the classroom.…
Have China’s carbon emissions peaked? New analysis shows they haven’t risen in 18 months
China is the world’s largest polluter by total annual emissions. The country, which is heavily reliant on coal…
Nuclear Startup Fermi Invokes Manhattan Project in AI Race
US efforts to develop artificial intelligence systems and the nuclear-energy infrastructure needed to power them are comparable to…