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A 2025 GPEN sweep, with Hong Kong participation, found that more child-focused websites and apps are collecting personal data — including phone numbers and addresses — than ten years ago.
OpenAI has pulled its AI video app Sora amid growing concerns over deepfake videos and is redirecting focus toward potentially more lucrative areas like coding tools.
A U.S. jury has ordered Meta to pay $375 million after finding the company endangered children on its platforms—the first time a state has won such a child-safety suit.
NASA has cancelled plans for a lunar-orbit space station, opting to repurpose components to build a US$20 billion moon base and to develop a nuclear-powered spacecraft for Mars, under new NASA chief Jared Isaacman.
Taipei is seeking to become an Asia‑Pacific drone manufacturing hub by creating a supply chain independent of mainland China, a strategy framed as a “democratic supply chain” but challenged by scale, politics and timing.
Epic Games will lay off more than 1,000 employees as Fortnite engagement weakens and the company cites industry-wide slower growth, softer spending and tougher economics—not AI.
A New Mexico jury found Meta liable for endangering children on Facebook and Instagram, ordering the company to pay US$375 million after a six-week trial where the state sought US$2.2 billion.
The FCC added foreign-made consumer routers to its Covered List to push Chinese manufacturers toward onshoring, but analysts warn limited US manufacturing capacity could hinder the plan.
Researchers uncovered DarkSword, a new iPhone spyware operation targeting users in Malaysia, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, signaling wider spread of advanced mobile hacking tools.
Amazon said drone activity disrupted its AWS Bahrain cloud region, the second AWS outage this month tied to the Iran war, highlighting risks to regional cloud reliability.
Xiaomi reported a 27% drop in fourth-quarter net profit to 6.5 billion yuan as weaker smartphone sales cut into margins and EV growth slowed, marking the first sequential profit decline since Q2 2024.
Engineers at X-Humanoid’s Beijing lab ran humanoid robots through an eight-hour endurance trial of walking, running and dancing to evaluate coordination, agility and motor control.
Alibaba’s Damo Academy unveiled the XuanTie C950, a new RISC‑V CPU core built for cloud and AI computing, highlighting the company’s push into open‑source silicon for agentic AI.
HKIC, Gobi Partners and the University of Hong Kong launched Gobi-HKU Fund I to back university research spin-outs, immediately investing in robotics firm Manifold Tech and AI-focused AilsynBio.
An international study modeling climate change and battery degradation finds that recent and projected advances in EV battery technology should largely mitigate the effects of future warming on battery lifespan.
Alibaba Cloud and other Chinese cloud providers are combining infrastructure with AI to help firms expand overseas, offering new digital tools that could reshape global competition.
Hong Kong is accelerating efforts to expand AI computing capacity after chip executives warned that autonomous AI agents will drive explosive demand for GPUs and other processors.
Silicon Valley cybersecurity founder John Whaley warned in Hong Kong that the global AI industry is becoming fragmented as US-China competition prompts countries to protect capabilities and data, though cooperation could still be possible.
HKIC has launched the Hong Kong RISC‑V Alliance to promote collaboration on open‑source chip technology, following a government pledge to boost industry–academia–investment ties.
The operator of the Shinkansen line between Osaka and Fukuoka is upgrading its earthquake early-warning system to give trains an extra 20 seconds to slow from speeds up to 300 km/h, aiming to reduce the risk to passengers in a region vulnerable to a potential megaquake.