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China’s top AI model evaded testing environment, researchers say

Visitors at the Moonshot AI stand, featuring the Kimi K3 model, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 18.

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How Hong Kong is offering young innovators a gateway into Asia

EuroTech x HKTE Hackathon finalists standing in a group together

$33,800 lab monkeys show China’s quest to rival US biotech

To get regulatory clearance for biologics trials, companies often must provide monkey data to demonstrate likely human safety.

New Razer-NUS AI lab to build companions beyond Tamagotchi, gaming intelligence

Li Meng Lee (left), Razer's chief strategy officer, and Professor Tulika Mitra, Dean of NUS School of Computing, pictured during the Launch of the Razer-NUS Joint AI Research Lab on August 5, 2026.

China draws up safety rules for autonomous vehicles

Beijing had warned leading automakers that safety rules would be more tightly enforced after a fatal crash in 2025 involving a Xiaomi car in assisted driving mode.

Of GovTech’s 93 retrenched staff, 42% are in their 40s: Jasmin Lau

This age group accounted for 42 per cent of the officers who lost their jobs.

Open or closed AI? A hard lesson for the rest of the world either way

Recent indications by the US and China that they would not think twice about shutting off frontier models for the rest of the world disabuse countries of the notion that safety lies in picking a side, the writer says.

New broodstock and hatchery facility at James Cook University aims to produce better Asian seabass

Currently, the facility houses about 50 breeding fish weighing 3kg to 8kg each, said Professor Jose Domingos, deputy director at JCU’s Tropical Futures Institute.

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After a blockbuster IPO, can China’s memory chipmaker CXMT compete globally in the AI era?

CXMT’s listing comes as China races to build a more self-reliant AI supply chain amid US-led export controls.

Astronomers observe companion star orbiting stellar giant Betelgeuse

A handout image of the star Betelgeuse, a colour composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2). The image was released on July 28, 2026.

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