Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has fired a manager at its WeChat division after details of his multimillion-yuan bonus package leaked online, sparking animated discussion across social media. The...

While China’s humanoid robots and automated “dark factories” have made headlines, another form of automation has been advancing: the collaborative robot, or cobot. Designed to operate alongside human ...

Alibaba Group Holding’s mapping unit has unveiled an upgrade to what it calls the world’s first technology framework that unites a robot’s “feet, hands, brains, central nerves and motor nerves” into a...

Traffic almost came to a standstill 2km (1.2 miles) from the Shanghai Expo Centre on Friday, the first day of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC). With temperatures nearing 40 degrees ...

The launch of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has revived an intense debate that has raged in Silicon Valley ever since DeepSeek’s shock breakthrough last year: whether China can overcome its limited access to ...

Shares of Chinese AI giant Z.ai soared 37 per cent in Hong Kong on Tuesday to close at HK$1,219 (US$155), after the company recently completed a giant data centre powered entirely by Chinese chips. Al...

Ant International, the affiliate of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, has raised about US$1.2 billion in a Series A funding round to fuel its global expansion, the company said on Tuesday. Existing bac...

Chinese start-up Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has narrowed the country’s artificial intelligence gap with the US to “a matter of weeks”, fuelling jitters in Silicon Valley over its lead in frontier AI as Chi...

The commercialisation of artificial intelligence is poised to transition from a “token economy” to a “task economy” as token prices decline in the coming years, according to Chinese AI company SenseTi...

Chinese start-up Moonshot AI has suspended new subscriptions for its groundbreaking new model Kimi K3 as surging demand squeezes its computing power, underscoring the challenges Chinese AI labs face i...