Chinese autonomous driving startup Pony AI seeks $4.5 billion valuation

Chinese autonomous driving startup Pony AI is seeking a $4.5 billion valuation as it targets up to $195 million in its U.S. initial public o...

China unveils world’s first AI-powered robot lifeguard

China has developed an AI-powered robot lifeguard designed to save people from drowning in rivers. Developed by scientists from the Hefei In...

Nvidia and SoftBank team to create Japan’s most powerful AI supercomputer

Nvidia and SoftBank have partnered to launch Japan’s most powerful AI supercomputer using Nvidia’s new Grace Blackwell platform. Announced d...

Nvidia surpasses Apple as world’s most valuable company for 2nd time this year

Nvidia has overtaken Apple as the world’s most valuable company, closing Tuesday’s trading session with a market cap of $3.43 trillion compa...

Nvidia CEO: AI won’t take your job, but someone using AI might

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reassured the audience at the company’s October AI Summit in Mumbai last week that artificial intelligence (AI...

Watch: Robot races through China’s Gobi Desert while wearing sneakers

Chinese startup Robot Era’s Star1 humanoid robot recently raced through the Gobi Desert, showcasing its impressive capabilities. A new video...

Voice actors from ‘Dragon Ball,’ ‘Cowboy Bebop’ and others speak out against AI

A group of 26 prominent Japanese voice actors, including Ryusei Nakao (the voice of Frieza in “Dragon Ball”), Koichi Yamadera (Spike Spiegel...

Hong Kong police bust love scam that duped victims out of $46 million using deepfakes

Hong Kong police dismantled a cross-border fraud syndicate that allegedly used deepfake technology to swindle over $46 million from victims ...

Nvidia’s AI chip fuels $400 billion surge in five days

Nvidia’s market value soared by an astounding $400 billion in just five days, fueled by a 14% rally in its stock price since Wednesday...

‘Dragon Ball,’ ‘Gundam’ voices to be turned into Chinese, English by AI for voice assistance

Japanese talent agency Aoni Production has partnered with AI firm CoeFont to adapt voices of “Dragon Ball” and “Gundam” characters into Chin...

AI-generated ‘Princess Mononoke’ live-action trailer sparks backlash

An AI-generated trailer for a live-action version of the acclaimed 1997 Studio Ghibli anime “Princess Mononoke” has sparked backlash after g...

‘World’s greatest living mathematician’ shares his thoughts on AI

Terence Tao, a University of California, Los Angeles, professor often dubbed the “world’s greatest living mathematician,” took t...

Awkwafina, other celebs to voice Meta AI chatbot: report

Awkwafina will reportedly lend her voice to Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI. A source familiar with the matter told Reuter...

Resurfaced video shows creator of world’s 1st AI software engineer was math prodigy

A video of Scott Wu, the founder and CEO of Cognition Labs and creator of the AI software engineer Devin, showcasing his exceptional mathema...

Asian countries shine at inaugural international AI olympiad

Singapore, China and Vietnam won big at the inaugural International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI) 2024, held in Burgas, Bulgari...

Awkwafina’s voice may soon power Meta’s AI assistant

Awkwafina’s distinctive voice could soon be integrated into various Meta platforms and products, as Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly ...

Hong Kong researchers say they can now detect autism in toddlers within a week

Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a fecal test kit that can potentially detect autism in toddlers with 94% a...

Go legend defeated by AI warns of the tech’s harmful impacts

Lee Se-dol, renowned for his 18 world championships in the strategic board game Go, voiced concerns about the negative impacts of artificial...

Young Jackie Chan created with help of AI for new film splits fans

Chinese netizens are baffled over the apparent de-aging of Jackie Chan in his new film “A Legend.” The 70-year-old action star a...

Study finds anti-Asian racial bias in AI grading

A new study by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) has raised concerns about potential racial bias in AI essay grading systems. In the stu...

Interview: ‘Atlas’ star Simu Liu reflects on AI technology and his ‘terrifying’ turn as a robot villain

After most famously playing a Marvel superhero and a Ken doll, actor Simu Liu now takes on the role of an AI robot in Netflix’s latest sci-f...

This Chinese woman has fallen for an AI chatbot and the internet is all for it

A Chinese woman living in California has fallen in love with Do Anything Now (DAN), a jailbroken mode of ChatGPT, showcasing their steamy an...

Filipina developer creates AI app to fight language extinction in the Philippines

A Filipina developer is promoting language appreciation and fighting language extinction with an artificial intelligence (AI) platform calle...

Japanese companies tap AI start-up to translate 50,000 manga into English

Japanese companies are investing in artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize the translation of Japanese manga into English, aiming for...

Seventeen releases first compilation album, drops ‘Maestro’ MV

K-pop group Seventeen released their first compilation album, filled with their greatest hits, and a new music video for its single on the s...

Watch: Viral video showcases ease of becoming someone else via AI technology

A viral video on Chinese social media showcases the power of AI-driven deepfake technology, demonstrating how easily individuals can be tran...

Top Vietnamese tech firm partners with Nvidia to open $200M AI factory

FPT, Vietnam’s top tech firm, has partnered with Nvidia to open a $200 million artificial intelligence (AI) factory, aiming to help realize ...

‘Atlas’ trailer: Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu star in Netflix sci-fi thriller

Jennifer Lopez is forced to abandon her mistrust and ally herself with robots run by artificial intelligence (AI) in the trailer for Netflix...

Korean woman loses $50,000 after falling for fake Elon Musk

A Korean fan of Elon Musk was duped into transferring thousands of dollars to a scammer who pretended to be the billionaire using artificial...

OpenAI arrives in Asia with inaugural Tokyo office

OpenAI has opened an office in Japan, marking a significant step in its global expansion efforts. Key points: ...

Meta’s AI finally imagines an Asian man and a white woman together

After drawing criticism over the past week, Meta’s AI image generation tool is finally able to spawn images of an Asian man and a white woma...

Meta’s AI image generator can’t put an Asian man and a white woman together

Significant limitations in Meta’s AI-powered image generator have been exposed, particularly in its inability to produce images of an ...

Big Ocean, first hearing-impaired K-pop group, set for debut

South Korea is set to unveil its first-ever hearing-impaired K-pop group, Big Ocean, this month. Key points: ...

AI beats humans in creative potential, study finds

A study has found that artificial intelligence — specifically ChatGPT-4 — surpasses humans in creative tasks, challenging the long-held noti...

Nvidia creates $9-an-hour AI ‘agents’ that outperform human nurses

Tech firm Nvidia has collaborated with Hippocratic AI to develop generative AI “agents” for healthcare that purportedly outperform human nur...

Watch: Robot dog plays with real dog in India

A video showing a robot dog created by an Indian tech company interacting with real dogs at a tech festival in India has gone viral on Insta...