Tencent adds ClawBot plug-in to WeChat amid OpenClaw boom and privacy warnings
Tencent Holdings is rolling out a “ClawBot” plug-in for China’s most popular app WeChat as it seeks to capitalise on the OpenClaw craze, even...
Hong Kong’s family office summit draws Pop Mart billionaire among global guest list
About 130 family office decision-makers and affluent second-generation members from across the world attended a dinner held by the Hong Kong government on Monday...
Inside Unitree’s landmark IPO: what to know about China’s humanoid giant
China’s Unitree Robotics has filed for a long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) on Shanghai’s Star Market, seeking to raise about 4.2 billion yuan (US$607.8...
White eagles and Persian cats: Chinese AI satire of US war on Iran goes viral
An AI-generated animation by China’s state broadcaster satirising the US-Israel war on Iran has gone viral, triggering a wave of user-made sequels online. First...
Greece trial begins for rail disaster that killed 57
A criminal trial opened in Greece on Monday over a train collision that killed 57 people, many of them college students, in a disaster...
Not like Venezuela: why Iran is likely to survive US-Israeli strikes
Iran’s leadership is likely to prove resilient despite US-Israeli decapitation tactics, analysts said. Dozens of senior Iranian officials, including the former supreme leader, Ayatollah...
Iran conflict prompts questions about China’s export power amid fractured supply chains
As the Iran war fuels global fears of stagflation, a debate is intensifying over whether the crisis poses an immediate risk to China’s sources...
Alibaba unveils AI agent platform to automate global e-commerce for small businesses
The international commerce unit of Alibaba Group Holding on Monday introduced an enterprise-focused artificial intelligence agent platform to automate complex cross-border e-commerce operations for...
Why China’s AI automation push is a risky social experiment
China is betting artificial intelligence will solve its labour shortage, as policymakers ramp up a nationwide push to deploy AI and robotics across the...