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Nvidia out? DeepSeek pairs with banned Chinese tech giant to deliver unbelievably low pricing on AI inference which could cause Nvidia's house of cards to come crashing

DeepSeek goes 100% Chinese for AI inference as it uses controversial Huawei's Ascend 910x accelerators.

TechRadar

How a Chinese AI startup with a ‘joke of a budget’ won over experts—and spooked investors, the tech sector and the U.S. government

Hangzhou-based DeepSeek has released several open-source AI models that match OpenAI’s performance—with more efficiency and at lower cost.

Fortune

The science of AFL mullets, what counts as rich and why Australian homes are so cold: 2024’s very best charts

Here’s Guardian Australia’s favourite data pieces from 2024, from us and from elsewhere on the internet

The Guardian - AU

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Geely, one of China’s biggest carmakers, resists the push to go all-electric

“You will lose a profit growth engine if you do not make petrol cars,” Geely Automobile Holdings’ CEO said in a recent interview.

Fortune

Couple arrested after woman found dead near waterfall in Hong Kong

Southeast Asian domestic worker, 25, was found dead near waterfall

The Independent UK

Kept Japanese Man With Four Wives, Two Girlfriends, and 10 Kids Wants Way More of All Three: 'I Just Love Women'

A Japanese man with six partners and 10 kids wants to father a total of 54 children to become the "god of marriage."

Latin Times

One of the world's largest mobile networks will train its trillion-parameter strong LLM on Huawei's AI chips as Nvidia, AMD are sidelined

China Telecom has trained two new powerful LLMs on Huawei's Ascend AI chips

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Flight attendant held up broken bathroom door for entire 16-hour trip from Hong Kong to New York

The door came off its hinges three minutes after the plane left Hong Kong International Airport

The Independent UK

Microsoft closes all physical shops in mainland China

Microsoft will sell its products online and through partners in China, closing all of its physical franchise stores.

TechRadar

A year and a half after its bitter breakup with NetEase, Blizzard has made a new deal to bring its games back to China—with NetEase

Blizzard's games are set to return to China this summer.

PC Gamer

US chip toolmakers skip Semicon China conference they sponsored amid ongoing trade war

Several of Semicon China's U.S.-based sponsors skipped the conference, as did companies like Micron and ASML.

Tom’s Hardware

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific is slashing the amount of time it takes to become a captain as it tries to battle a manpower crunch

Cathay Pacific is premptively cancelling flights so to ensure smooth operations during the busy Lunar New Year travel period.

Fortune

China’s fears over the economy and its Gen Z 'lying flat' have it worried about social media posts with a bad attitude

Its internet censorship agency issued new rules to ban content that promotes “pessimism” about the country’s economy.

Fortune

Fears raised after Hong Kong journalist fails to return from China trip

Minnie Chan has reportedly been out of contact since travelling to Xiangshan Forum a month ago

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Al Jazeera

Hong Kong journalist reported missing after trip to China

Kyodo News says South China Morning Post reporter Minnie Chan became unreachable after attending forum in late October.

Newslaundry

‘Only the latest action against journalists in India’: What global press said on NewsClick raids

In the wake of this week’s unprecedented police action against journalists linked to NewsClick, several international news organisations have turned their attention to the searches, seizures and arrests.

The Independent UK

Chinese zoo accused of passing off dog as lion years before ‘human-bear’ saga

A new video has resurfaced from 2021 amid the human-bear controversy

The Guardian - UK

Xi Jinping replaces generals in charge of China’s nuclear arsenal

Leader tightens grip over country’s military leadership with biggest shake-up in a decade

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The Independent UK

Hong Kong police arrest another person accused of supporting overseas activists

Hong Kong police have arrested another person accused of supporting overseas activists who allegedly endangered national security, in a further expansion of a government crackdown on pro-democracy dissidents

The New Daily

China’s ‘white people food’ trend divides social media

Chinese students abroad were bewildered by "white people food", with plain meals eventually becoming an internet and social trend.

Fortune

China's top censor sets sights on features like Apple AirDrop, popular as a way to evade controls

The country's top internet regulator proposed rules that limit smartphone features that let users share content to anyone in the vicinity.

Fortune

Cathay Pacific accuses pilots of going slow on the runway

Hong Kong and its flagship airline Cathay Pacific are trying to recover after years of pandemic-era isolation.

Reuters

Chinese foreign minister to visit Australia - South China Morning Post

China's foreign minister is expected to visit Australia in July as diplomatic relations between the two trading partners stabilise, the South China Morning Post reported on Friday.

Tom’s Hardware

China Poured Nearly $2 Billion Into Its Own Semiconductor Industry Last Year

According to the South China Morning Post, the Chinese government poured some $1.75 billion into national semiconductor companies throughout 2022. The truth is that China's investment in the field is much, much larger.

The Guardian - AU

Hong Kong: some schools face closure as birthrate and exodus take toll

Five schools preparing to close, according to local report, with others made to merge amid falling school enrolment numbers

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