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China-founded AI-agent start-up Manus acquired by Zuckerberg’s Meta for ‘billions’

A China-founded start-up that specialises in artificial intelligence agents was acquired by US tech giant Meta Platforms for billions of…

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China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after initial ChatGPT shock

Chinese government authorities sent urgent requests to various experts, including professors from Tsinghua University, to provide briefings on the implications…

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DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng makes the cut in top 10 ‘people who shaped science in 2025’

The Nature’s 10 profile of Liang recognised the disruption caused in January by the release of DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning model…

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Meta plans budget cuts as high as 30% to its metaverse efforts in 2026

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to cut resources for building the so-called metaverse, an effort that he once…

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Alibaba launches US$537 Quark AI glasses to challenge wearables from Meta, Xiaomi, Rokid

The Quark AI Glasses, named after the company’s Quark AI assistant, include three versions each of the series’ flagship S1…

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Nvidia’s latest earnings run into a market suddenly afraid of AI spending

Wall Street will get a sense of where the billions of dollars being spent on artificial intelligence are going when…

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Big Tech firms double down on AI glasses, as Ant offers iris authentication for payments

Chinese technology companies are stepping up their push into the smart-glasses market with new software and hardware innovations, intensifying competition…

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Alibaba doubles down on ‘super-scale’ computing infrastructure plans as AI demand grows

Meeting the AI industry’s demand “requires super-scale infrastructure and full-stack technology accumulation”, Wu told the audience at Friday’s opening of…

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AI models from China’s DeepSeek, Alibaba and the US flatter users too much, study finds

Leading artificial intelligence models from the United States and China are “highly sycophantic”, and their excessive flattery may make users…

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China’s lesson for the US: it takes more than chips to win the AI race

When Alibaba Group Holding’s CEO Eddie Wu Yongming took the stage at the company’s annual Apsara conference in Hangzhou on…

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