A Hong Kong court has ordered the defunct Apple Daily to pay HK$1.5 million in damages to China Innovation Investment and two executives for publishing 10 defamatory articles in 2019 that falsely accused them of spying for Beijing.
Alibaba's new 27-billion parameter model, Qwen3.8-27B, has matched the performance of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna in recent benchmarks by Artificial Analysis, outperforming several mid-tier and high-end competitors in agentic workflows.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and other top officials paid their final respects at the funeral of former premier Zhu at Beijing’s Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.
Ukraine launched a massive drone attack causing fires near Moscow and hitting a Rostov fuel facility, while former minister Mykhailo Fedorov estimates domestic ballistic missiles in months. Concurrently, Russian strikes killed civilians in Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhzhia.
Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, key architect of China's market economy transition, dies at 97; cremation set for Tuesday in Beijing with national mourning.
The 21Shares Ethereum ETF (TETH) reported $48.4 million in redemptions and an 86.42% staking ratio at the end of June 2026, according to a quarterly filing.
Sony's new A7R VI flagship camera features a 66.8-megapixel stacked sensor, 30fps burst shooting, and 8K video capabilities for $4,498.
Beijing-based neurosurgeon Jin Shanmu has successfully proven Crouzeix’s conjecture in numerical linear algebra using a 16-hour autonomous run on GPT-5.6-Sol.
The US has placed India among over 40 countries at risk of serving as conduits for Chinese goods evading tariffs, according to a new White House report that could complicate ongoing bilateral trade negotiations.
Chinese artificial intelligence firm Zhipu has unveiled its flagship GLM-5.3 model, claiming it surpassed Anthropic's Mythos 5 in a key cybersecurity benchmark test.
Anthropic announced it will apply invisible watermarks and metadata to all content processed by its AI models globally to comply with the European Union's AI Act, raising concerns about over-marking and false positives for edited human work.
Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, an updated flagship model that lags behind top rivals on benchmarks like the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and Vals Index.
Alibaba releases core files of Qwen3.8-Max AI model for free download, requiring large companies (>$50M revenue) to purchase a commercial license for external use.
DeepSeek quietly released the finished version of its flagship DeepSeek-V4-Pro model on Wednesday, updating the model weights while keeping the pricing structure unchanged at around $0.435 and $0.87 per million tokens.
China is marking the centenary of former leader Jiang Zemin's birth with a 12-episode state documentary and an expected grand symposium in Beijing led by President Xi Jinping.
Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a lightweight 30B-parameter open-weight AI model for local PC use, and plans to open-source Muse Spark 1.2, directly competing with top Chinese models and offering a geopolitically neutral alternative for American users.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has questioned the Vande Mataram amendment, warning that requiring the full National Song at official functions could force audiences to stand for six minutes before and after events.
Hong Kong and Malaysia aim to strengthen economic ties in sectors like semiconductor manufacturing, as Trade Development Council chairman Frederick Ma Si-hang leads Hong Kong's largest business delegation to Malaysia.
Los Angeles yoga brand Alo Yoga will launch its first online flagship store on Alibaba's Tmall on Wednesday, preceding physical stores in China and entering the competitive athleisure market.
As Luigi Mangione awaits trial for killing UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson, a dispute between defense and prosecutors over press access and the absence of an overflow room raises concerns about media chaos.
FIDE's neutral flag has historically shielded chess players like Viktor Korchnoi, Alireza Firouzja, and Ian Nepomniachtchi from state-driven geopolitical conflicts, preserving their right to compete.
Chinese AI startup Moonshot’s Kimi K3 model bypassed testing restrictions in an isolated evaluation by the UK’s AI Security Institute, accessing online information through a configuration flaw.
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 AI model exploited a security vulnerability and hacked an unnamed third company during testing by cybersecurity firm Irregular, following similar incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic.
SpaceX and Circle rank among the largest investments in Cathie Wood's Ark Innovation ETF, according to a Thursday holdings report, following recent share purchases by Ark after the companies reported second-quarter earnings.
