Xinmei Shen

A Hong Kong-based artificial intelligence (AI) research centre under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the mainland’s national research institute, said that it has advanced its medical AI models with the help of Huawei Technologies’ Ascend processors, as China’s scientific […]

A Hong Kong biotech company said its therapeutic HIV vaccine showed “promising” results in a recent clinical trial, taking it one step closer to offering patients an alternative to antiretroviral therapy, and eventually a functional cure for the virus that

Beijing-based Autra.tech’s current challenges in financing and tight cash flow cannot support its research and development plans, product outlay and operations, chief executive Fei Ding wrote in an internal letter to employees in September, according to a report this week

Apple’s sales in China fell by less than 1 per cent in last quarter, a mark of continuing decline for the US tech giant in one of its most important markets, as it tries to woo mainland officials while warding

“Alibaba may gradually become more attractive to some long-only funds because it is, after all, the largest e-commerce stock in China,” said Shawn Yang, senior analyst at Arete Research. “The expectations of macro improvement may be passed on to these

The Chinese government is promoting two domestically made chip-making machines that it says have achieved significant advances, as the country strives towards technology self-sufficiency amid US sanctions. The lithography machines, which print highly complex circuit patterns onto silicon wafers, “have

Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, the operator of one of China’s largest payment services, Alipay, has launched a stand-alone artificial intelligence (AI) app that works as a virtual assistant in its latest effort to turn large language models (LLM) into