The Trump Organization's new USD 499 T1 smartphone, marketed as US-made, was likely designed and assembled in China, according to experts. The Android device uses various components from Asia, ...

Ants, an urban revitalization startup, has raised USD 500,000 in pre-seed funding from Wavemaker Impact to convert Southeast Asia’s underused buildings into green, affordable hubs for SMEs. Based in ...

Tencent has denied media reports that it is pursuing acquisitions of South Korean firms Nexon and Kakao Mobility. The company rejected claims of a USD 15 billion bid for Nexon and a 40% stake purchase ...

TikTok has launched new AI-driven tools that let marketers generate five-second video ads from product images or text prompts. Part of its Symphony product, the features aim to cut production time and ...

Splat is an app that turns arguments into entertainment, where AI judges your roasts and fighting is framed as a form of ...

MiniMax has launched M1, an open-weight hybrid attention model built for long-context reasoning and complex tasks. With 456 billion parameters and support for one million-token inputs, MiniMax-M1 ...

China has begun its first clinical trial of wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, with a paralyzed patient reportedly controlling games by thought weeks after surgery. The implant, said ...

Baidu’s Apollo Go service has received approval to expand its robotaxi testing to Tung Chung, marking its third Hong Kong zone since December 2024. The move follows over 15,000 kilometers of ...

HongShan, formerly Sequoia China, has open-sourced two datasets from its xBench benchmark to help developers test reasoning and search skills in real-world AI tasks. The ScienceQA and DeepSearch sets ...

Southeast Asia is emerging as a key player in the global space economy, fueled by a surge in space-related deal activity, a ...

Ahead of its English-language site launch on June 30, Autohome introduced a slate of new AI tools to support global ...

Chinese major hotelier H World Group aims to add about 9,000 hotels by 2030, mostly on its home turf, betting that demand for ...