Nvidia chip export loophole clouds US-China AI summit talks

An investigative report on a blacklisted Chinese server maker’s American subsidiary, which has freely exported Nvidia’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips through a loophole…

American dumb just hit all time high

Trump posts map showing US takeovers of other nations

US President Donald Trump has spent his second term threatening takeovers of various other countries, from Canada and Cuba to Greenland, and on Monday he shared on social media a map that fueled fresh fears of his imperialist…

Trump’s hair just broke the Internet

Journeying through Syria’s shattered cities as war turns to peace

It was around seven o’clock in the evening when we arrived at a church in the city of Hama, Syria, to attend the wedding of…

Elderly woman charged with displaying seditious publications outside flat, remanded at psychiatric centre

An elderly woman has been charged with displaying publications with a seditious intention outside her flat in Tin Shui Wai. Yang Chau-kei, 61, appeared at…

The deliberate crime of Indonesia’s toxic haze

Indonesia is once again dominating headlines across Southeast Asia as dense plumes of toxic haze drift into neighboring skies. Latest satellite monitoring data from the…

Can decentralized energy prevent the next crisis?

After International Energy Agency executive director Fatih Birol labeled the ongoing global energy turmoil the “biggest energy security threat in history” in April, events over…

Driver thanks ‘superhero’ rival for saving him from flaming race car at Shanghai Int’l Circuit

A British racing driver thanked a “superhero” rival for pulling him from the flaming wreckage of his car after a horror crash in Shanghai, saying…

‘Covered in bites’: Pests and extreme heat worsen health risks for Hong Kong’s homeless – NGO

Hong Kong’s homeless population faces escalating health risks as rising temperatures lead to worsening pest infestations and leave individuals on the street more vulnerable to…

Will Hasina ever retake power in Bangladesh?

On August 5, two years to the day after a mass uprising drove Sheikh Hasina from power, she announced from India that she would return…

China’s WZ-X drone hints at an unmanned stealth bomber

China’s WZ-X points to a future in which stealth, endurance, surveillance and strike converge in a new class of unmanned aircraft built for sustained operations…

The embedded AI inside ‘Made in China’

Western coverage of Chinese artificial intelligence still tends to treat the competition as a model contest: can a Chinese company match the best American system?…

3 re-arrested for alleged sedition after marking anniversary of 2019 Prince Edward police storming

Police have re-arrested three people on suspicion of sedition, after previously apprehending them outside Prince Edward station on the anniversary of a 2019 incident when…

All in a day’s reading, if you’re following innovation

One problem with following innovation is that the extraordinary now arrives disguised as the weekly. A frontier model trained on more than 100,000 GPUs, several…

Ukraine war update: It will be a brutal fall and winter

In a war, length is far more important than ferocity. Trying to keep a war from escalating might seem like a prudent thing (and academic…

America crashing in real time

Explainer: Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 74

In August, two high-profile activists were found guilty in a national security case along with the organisation they once led – the now-dissolved Hong Kong…

University of Hong Kong student ‘Democracy Wall’ replaced with digital displays

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has replaced its student “Democracy Wall” with digital displays, after the campus bulletin board was left largely empty for…

Give us a Hong Kong-style Handover of Falklands from UK, says Argentinian leader

Argentine President Javier Milei has called for a Hong Kong-style Handover of the disputed Falklands from the UK. In an interview with The Economist published…