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Sep 22, 2025

Trump’s US$100,000 visa threatens India’s US$280 billion IT sector

Donald Trump’s sticker shock on H-1B visas risks disrupting Indian tech firms’ US projects, and is forcing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to once again deal with the fallout from America First policies. The US president’s order on Friday – which requires a US$100,000 fee for H-1B applications – will hurt margins of Indian outsourcers who use the programme to deploy engineers to client sites. That is a blow to India’s US$280 billion IT services sector, which is already grappling with sluggish...

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Sep 20, 2025

DeepSeek warns of ‘jailbreak’ risks for its open-source models

DeepSeek has revealed details about the risks posed by its artificial intelligence models for the first time, noting that open-sourced models are particularly susceptible to being “jailbroken” by malicious actors. The Hangzhou-based start-up said it evaluated its models using industry benchmarks as well as its own tests in a peer-reviewed article published in the academic journal Nature. American AI companies often publicise research about the risks of their rapidly improving models and have...

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Sep 20, 2025

ByteDance aims to proceed with TikTok deal in line with Chinese laws

ByteDance will proceed with a deal to keep TikTok’s operations in the US in line with “the requirements of Chinese laws”, the social media giant said in a Chinese-language post on WeChat early on Saturday, hours after a call between President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Donald Trump. But in a subsequent English-language post on X, which is barred in China, the Beijing-based tech unicorn – owner of short video platforms TikTok and Douyin – thanked both Xi and Trump “for their efforts to...

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Sep 20, 2025

Huawei’s AI chip road map bolsters China’s tech self-sufficiency efforts

Huawei Technologies’ recent unveiling of a three-year road map for its Ascend artificial intelligence processors has provided fresh momentum for China’s tech self-sufficiency efforts, according to analysts. US-sanctioned Huawei’s disclosure “is educating the market about what’s ahead”, while signalling that the Shenzhen-based company “can match Nvidia’s multi-year road map”, said Kevin Xu, founder of US-based investment firm Interconnected Capital. Huawei deputy chairman Eric Xu Zhijun, who...

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Sep 19, 2025

Huawei launches new watches, Nova 14 smartphone as it expands overseas

In a glitzy product launch in Paris on Friday, Huawei Technologies cemented its growing leadership in wrist-worn wearables by unveiling two new watch models, as well as rolling out an overseas version of a smartphone. The new Huawei Watch GT 6 is available in two sizes – 46mm and 41 mm in diameter – with the smaller unit delivering a 14-day battery life, double that of the previous generation. The larger watch can last for 21 days, a 50 per cent improvement on its predecessor. In addition,...

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Sep 19, 2025

Alibaba-Meituan battle heats up as rivals clash in in-store dining: report

Alibaba Group Holding’s competition with Meituan is expanding from instant commerce into the bricks-and-mortar market, as the Hangzhou-based tech conglomerate prepares to offer discounted in-store dining vouchers to consumers on the mainland. That new initiative is expected to start on Saturday in selected districts in Shenzhen, Shanghai and Jiaxing, a city in eastern Zhejiang province, according to a report on Friday by local media outlet LatePost, which cited unnamed sources. Alibaba, owner of...

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Sep 18, 2025

Alibaba releases open-source AI agent to rival OpenAI’s Deep Research

Alibaba Group Holding has unveiled a “leading open-source deep research” artificial intelligence agent that it says matches the performance of OpenAI’s flagship Deep Research tool, while being more efficient. The agent has been integrated into Alibaba’s maps app, Amap, and its AI-powered legal research tool, Tongyi FaRui, according to a blog post on Tuesday by Alibaba’s AI search development team, Tongyi Lab. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. Users of Amap can leverage the deep research...

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Sep 18, 2025

Huawei bypasses Nvidia AI chips in touting key breakthrough for China

Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled hardware that it said could deliver world-class computing power without using Nvidia’s advanced chips, in a breakthrough that could potentially break the supply chokehold that constrains China’s aspirations in artificial intelligence. The Shenzhen-based telecommunications equipment giant’s high-profile disclosure came just a day before a scheduled phone call between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump, as Beijing seeks to minimise US...

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Sep 18, 2025

Meta says smart glasses with built-in display a step towards ‘superintelligence’

Meta Platforms on Wednesday launched its first consumer-ready smart glasses with a built-in display, seeking to extend the momentum of its Ray-Ban line, one of the early consumer hits of the artificial intelligence era. CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off what he called the Meta Ray-Ban Display, although some demos of the new technology did not go as planned, with a call to the glasses failing to go through, for instance. “I don’t know what to tell you guys,” Zuckerberg said. “I keep on messing this...

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Sep 17, 2025

Alibaba-developed AI processor on par with Nvidia’s H20 chip, CCTV report shows

Alibaba Group Holding’s semiconductor design unit, T-Head, has developed an artificial intelligence chip with capabilities that are on par with Nvidia’s H20 graphics processing unit (GPU), according to a report by state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV). The report, which aired on Tuesday, showed T-Head’s PPU, an application-specific integrated circuit, being compared with Nvidia’s H20 and A800 GPUs in a performance benchmark during Premier Li Qiang’s visit to a data centre operated by...

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