AI’s $600 Billion Blind Spot
Welcome to Big Ideas, a Prospect survey of next-generation solutions for pressing policy problems. Our writers scour the policy landscape to…
130 architecture, interiors and design projects from China shortlisted for Dezeen Awards China 2025
Dezeen has announced the shortlisted projects for this year’s Dezeen Awards China, which include a seaside pavilion on…
Alibaba’s Qwen3-Omni tops Hugging Face AI ranking as Chinese open systems flourish
Alibaba Group Holding’s new Qwen3-Omni multimodal artificial intelligence system has quickly become the most popular model in the…
Nikkei 225, Kospi, ASX 200
Sydney Opera House, designed by Danish architect Mr Jorn Oberg Utzon, at first light as the sun rises…
China boosts broadband, IoT and weather satellite fleets with flurry of launches
SYDNEY, Australia — A flurry of launch activity has seen China add to an Internet of Things constellation,…
Space Race Heats Up as Russia and China Target Satellites
Russia and China are developing satellite-killing technologies while Europe and the UK struggle to protect their space assets,…
Chinese scientists set world record with magnetic field 700,000 times Earth’s-Xinhua
Researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) record experiment data in Hefei, east…
China woman falls into old well, circled by snakes, clings to wall for 54 hours before rescue
A woman from southeastern China was miraculously rescued after accidentally falling into an abandoned well, where she clung…
Clean Energy Transition Accelerates Globally Beyond Western Influence
The clean energy transition is well underway around the world, at what many experts estimate to be an…
China’s ‘full stack’ AI ambitions on show at Alibaba’s Apsara Conference
China’s full artificial intelligence technology stack was on display at this year’s Apsara Conference, the annual gathering of…
China’s industrial profits back to growth in first eight months -Xinhua
A worker is busy on the production line at a company in Zunhua City, north China’s Hebei Province,…
As China Gains in Space Race, New Bill Looks to ‘Launch’ US Forward
As a fierce competition between the United States and China heats up on Earth, a new bill in…