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Television maker Hisense Group Holdings’ optical communications unit made a steady debut in Hong Kong after raising HK$5.6 billion (US$714 million), adding momentum to a fresh wave of mainland Chinese conglomerates spinning off business units to tap overseas capital and support technology expansion. Shares of fibre-optic communications equipment maker Ligent Technologies jumped as much as 19.2 per cent on Tuesday morning, valuing the company at more than HK$35 billion. The stock pared early...

Alibaba Group Holding has introduced what it called China’s most powerful artificial intelligence chip and teased plans to train an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, as top executives reaffirmed the tech giant’s ambition to pursue artificial superintelligence (ASI). Speaking at the company’s annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou on Tuesday, group chairman Joe Tsai highlighted Alibaba’s commitment to building end-to-end capabilities. “Alibaba is firmly investing in building full-stack AI...

Alibaba Group Holding has introduced what it called China’s most powerful artificial intelligence chip and teased plans to train an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, as top executives reaffirmed the tech giant’s ambition to pursue artificial superintelligence (ASI). Speaking at the company’s annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou on Tuesday, group chairman Joe Tsai highlighted Alibaba’s commitment to building end-to-end capabilities. “Alibaba is firmly investing in building full-stack AI...

For all the recent progress in artificial intelligence, most machines still struggle with something humans learn as children: touch. A worker can feel when a box is slipping, when a surface is unstable, or when a repeated movement is putting strain on the body. Robots and automated systems, by contrast, often rely heavily on cameras, […] The post TacnIQ.ai raises US$1.5M to teach machines the language of touch appeared first on e27.

For Hyperbond Studio, the question was never only whether artificial intelligence could teach a language. It was whether people would keep coming back long enough for the teaching to matter. The Singapore-based startup, best known for its AI language-learning dating simulation app Call Me Sensei, has secured backing from Supercell, the Finnish gaming company behind […] The post Supercell backs Hyperbond Studio as Call Me Sensei bets on AI romance for language learning appeared first on e27.

Bitcoin’s surge to around US$87,000 has captured the market’s full attention, and the data tells a clear story about what powered this move. The leading cryptocurrency rallied from the mid US$70,000s to an intraday high near US$87,000, its strongest level since late January. That advance pushed its market cap toward roughly US$1.7 trillion to US$1.8 […] The post Bitcoin’s US$87,000 spike: Real breakout or a US$900 million short squeeze? appeared first on e27.

Startups are constantly encouraged to expand. Enter new countries, test new segments, build distribution partnerships, hire locally and capture market share before someone else does. Much less attention is given to the opposite decision: leaving a market that looked promising but is not working. That decision is often harder than entering in the first place. […] The post Startups should learn to leave bad markets faster appeared first on e27.

Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has revamped its online payments operations by creating a new business group for Alipay, as it sharpens its artificial intelligence focus on “agentic commerce” to drive new growth. Ant, an Alibaba Group Holding affiliate, merged its Digital Payment Business Group, Alipay Business Group and Zhima Credit Business Group into a new business unit dedicated to Alipay, according to an internal letter from CEO Cyril Han Xinyi on Monday, as reported by Chinese media outlet...

Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has revamped its online payments operations by creating a new business group for Alipay, as it sharpens its artificial intelligence focus on “agentic commerce” to drive new growth. Ant, an Alibaba Group Holding affiliate, merged its Digital Payment Business Group, Alipay Business Group and Zhima Credit Business Group into a new business unit dedicated to Alipay, according to an internal letter from CEO Cyril Han Xinyi on Monday, as reported by Chinese media outlet...

Robotics and rehabilitation are undergoing a profound transformation that the industry’s own measurement infrastructure has largely failed to keep pace with. For four decades the recording of movement in three dimensions has been organised around a building in a studio. From a wired ring of cameras, a morning of calibration, and a purchase order that […] The post Why Asia’s Physical AI boom will be decided at the camera, not the model appeared first on e27.

Ask most founders why a deal stalled and they’ll say the same thing: “they wanted a better price.” It’s the most comfortable explanation in the room, because it points outward — at the market, at the competitor who undercut you, at a buyer who’s “just being cheap.” A common counter-argument is worth taking seriously: a […] The post Your price problem is a positioning problem wearing a discount request appeared first on e27.

Apple Intelligence now requires up to 14GB storage for newer iPhone models.