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New Delhi’s ‘import management system’ came into effect on Wednesday with Acer, Xiaomi already given shipment approvals
Andrew Ng, one of the founders of Google Brain and a Stanford University professor, warns that Big Tech companies are keen to trigger heavy regulation to reduce competition in the AI sector
At a twice-a-decade financial policy meeting this week, Beijing vowed to uphold the centralised and unified leadership of the CCP on China's financial work
Non-government accounts on the likes of Weibo and Douyin with more than 500,000 followers will have to display real-name information
Chinese tech giants, including Alibaba, ByteDance and Baidu, had placed orders worth billions for 2024 and Nvidia had planned to deliver some of them by mid-November
Beijing said the ban was an abuse of national power, adding that it was imposed without any real evidence
The Southeast Asian nation already does chip packaging and testing for US giant Intel, but wants to build its first fab for basic chips in coming years
Support from the state 'Big Fund' is part of a $5.3bn capital expansion by Changxin Xinqiao, a leading memory chip firm in Hefei, as China expands its production capacity and R&D
The Tesla supplier dropped its full-year operating profit forecast to $769 million as a result of falling demand for luxury electric vehicles
New order will require developers of AI systems that pose risks to security, the economy, health or safety to share test results, while officials set standards for key chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cyber risks
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