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Newest first · UTC+11:00AI is advancing. Now it’s up to humans to redefine their worth
As artificial intelligence upends job markets and academic norms, we must go beyond the fear of change to redefine what it means to be educated
· Kai-Lung Hui
AI is advancing. Now it’s up to humans to redefine their worth
As artificial intelligence upends job markets and academic norms, we must go beyond the fear of change to redefine what it means to be educated
· Kai-Lung Hui
Daegu Opera House, China’s NCPA to present large-scale ‘Rigoletto’
High-tech staging marks Asian premiere of joint production, Daegu Opera House's last production before renovation
· Park Ga-young
SK hynix on course for record profit as AI memory boom lifts margins
SK hynix is expected to deliver record-breaking first-quarter earnings, with operating profit potentially topping 40 trillion won ($29 billion) as surging demand for AI memory drives a full-blown industry upcycle.
· Jo He-rim
China hosts humanoid robots in Beijing half marathon
China staged a half marathon in Beijing on 19 April 2025 in which humanoid robots ran alongside human participants over 21.1km, in a first for the country’s robotics sector. Spectators, including many families, lined the route to watch the event, held in the E-Town technology zone and designed to test machines under…
· AfricaNews
Google map export stalls 2 months after Korea's conditional approval
Negotiations between South Korea's government and Google over the cross-border transfer of detailed map data have lost momentum, with no follow-up meeting held since Feb. 27, when an inter-agency panel granted conditional approval after a 19-year standoff.
· Moon Joon-hyun
Winner of Beijing robot half-marathon smashes human world record by 6 minutes
The Flashlight humanoid developed by Chinese firm Honor was competing against more than 100 other robots and thousands of much slower humans
· Ben Jiang
Winner of second Beijing robot half-marathon smashes human world record by 6 minutes
The Flashlight humanoid developed by Chinese firm Honor was competing against more than 100 other robots and thousands of much slower humans
· Ben Jiang
China auto show, India state elections, TSMC tech event
Visitors at the BYD booth at Auto China in Beijing on May 3, 2024. © Getty Images
· Staff Writer
Laptop OLED is the next display battle with China. Korea is winning it for now.
Samsung Display alone makes the panel for Apple's first OLED MacBook Pro this fall, setting a premium standard that China's BOE is building scale to undercut
· Moon Joon-hyun
The five buzziest AI office tools, and what they do
With several billion-dollar companies now having spent years training and refining their AI models, the market for specific productivity tools that anyone can use has become diverse and competitive. Here, we’ve picked out five tools that have influencers and office workers raving.
· Tim Biggs
Humanoid robots crush humans during half-marathon — and set the world record
Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism and autonomous navigation skills as they whizzed past human runners in a half-marathon race in Beijing on Sunday, highlighting the sector’s rapid technical advances.
· Reuters
Un robot humanoide gana en Beijing y supera el récord mundial humano de medio maratón
Corredores toman fotos de un robot humanoide en la II Media Maratón y Media Maratón de Robots Humaoides Beijing E-Town en Beijing, el domingo 19 de abril de 2026. (Haruna Furuhashi/Pool Foto via AP)
· The Associated Press
Elon Musk fulfills teen’s last wish in touching X post after she was too weak to take his call
A 15-year-old cancer patient who dreamed of meeting Elon Musk left behind a handwritten list of questions for the tech billionaire before she died — and days later, he answered every one, honoring her final wish in a moment now touching millions online.
· Fox News
New firms with up to HK$100 billion market capitalisation to set up shop in Hong Kong
Finance chief says ‘strategic enterprises’ are in high-growth sectors, including life and health technology, low-altitude economy and AI, among others
· Natalie Wong
New firms with up to HK$100 billion market capitalisation to set up shop in Hong Kong
Finance chief says ‘strategic enterprises’ are in high-growth sectors, including life and health technology, low-altitude economy and AI, among others
· Natalie Wong
Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon
Winning robot records faster time than Jacob Kiplimo’s world record
· Reuters
Trump, Iran cite progress in talks as uncertainty hangs over Strait
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· Jodesz Gavilan
A humanoid robot beats the human half-marathon world record in Beijing
Runners take pictures of a humanoid robot in the second Beijing E-Town Half Marathon and Humanoid Robot Half Marathon in Beijing Sunday, April 19, 2026. (Haruna Furuhashi/Pool Photo via AP)
Abu Dhabi's AIQ targets US and Canada for energy AI exports | The National
AIQ, the Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence company focused on the energy sector, sees opportunities to export its technology to the US and Canada, its chief executive has said.
· Kyle Fitzgerald
Will AI job fears hurt China’s housing market as they have in the US and India?
AI’s impact on China’s housing market remains limited for now due to manufacturing strength, but younger tech workers may face headwinds
· Zhu Wenqian
Will AI job fears hurt China’s housing market as they have in the US and India?
AI’s impact on China’s housing market remains limited for now due to manufacturing strength, but younger tech workers may face headwinds
· Zhu Wenqian
Music artist Elhé’s craft blends movement and sound
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· jreyes0314
Sole proprietor: Madras wants shiatsu insole to cushion more Asian feet
Madras uses its Meta Insoles in a wide range of shoes, from dress shoes to sneakers. (Photo by Naoka Yamana)
· Staff Writer
AI is not eating up China’s software market but turbocharging it: HSBC analyst
Legacy Chinese SaaS firms are integrating AI into their offerings and seeing ‘significant robust growth’ as a result, Liu said
· Vincent Chow
AI is not eating up China’s software market but turbocharging it: HSBC analyst
Legacy Chinese SaaS firms are integrating AI into their offerings and seeing ‘significant robust growth’ as a result, Liu said
· Vincent Chow
[H.eco Tech Festa 2026] Sustainability now a condition for market access: HP exec
More than 60% of HP’s revenue tied to sustainable products as partners report higher win rates
· Jie Ye-eun
Singapore ranks No 1 for cyber defences but boardrooms are the weak link
As AI supercharges cyber threats, a new study reveals seven in 10 Singaporean boardrooms treat cybersecurity as an IT silo
· Jean Iau
Singapore ranks No 1 for cyber defences but boardrooms are the weak link
As AI supercharges cyber threats, a new study reveals seven in 10 Singaporean boardrooms treat cybersecurity as an IT silo
· Jean Iau
[Tech Thoughts] Wartime AI slopaganda is a symptom of worse things
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· Victor Barreiro Jr.
Reversal of tech tide 테크 전세 역전
For years, South Korea drew comfort from a familiar belief. China might scale faster, but Korea would stay ahead in the technologies that mattered most: semiconductors, precision manufacturing and secondary batteries.
· Korea Herald
LIV Golf Mexico City Par Scores
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· The Associated Press
Should you really trust health advice from an AI chatbot?
For the past year, Abi has been using ChatGPT – one of the best known AI chatbots – to help manage her health.
· James Gallagher
Hospital staff using ChatGPT to calculate medication doses, nurses claim
Royal Darwin Hospital staff say working conditions at the facility are affecting patient care. (ABC News Graphics: Jessica Henderson)
· Tilda Colling
Doctors couldn’t diagnose her for years but ChatGPT got it right in minutes
After years of frustrating misdiagnoses, a Welsh woman desperately turned to ChatGPT for answers — and the AI bot got it right when her doctors couldn’t.
· Jeanne Erickson
(Yonhap Interview) AI transformation of manufacturing industry key to survival in global AI race: minister
SEOUL, April 19 (Yonhap) -- The world is experiencing two different wars at the moment, Seoul's industry minister said: the Middle East war and the artificial intelligence (AI) war.
· Kim Na-young
Skydiver crashes into scoreboard before Virginia Tech spring football game
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — A skydiver crashed into the Lane Stadium scoreboard before Virginia Tech’s spring football game Saturday.
Parachuter slams into Virginia Tech scoreboard — jarring crowd and delaying football game
A parachuter slammed into Virginia Tech’s scoreboard, leaving the stuntman dangling high above a shocked crowd and delaying the school’s spring game Saturday afternoon.
· Ella Morrison
Alberto Mendoza uses Georgia Tech's spring practice to establish himself as favorite to start at QB
Indiana quarterback Alberto Mendoza warms up before an NCAA college football game against Iowa, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, in Iowa City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
Millennials and Gen Zs are eschewing raucous weekend getaways for these specialized retreats
In the latest sign that younger generations are opting for far quieter, more wholesome lives than their forebears, millennials and Gen Zs are eschewing raucous weekend getaways involving nightclubs and gambling for dedicated reading retreats. They’re paying upwards of $1,000 to hit the books with strangers for a wee…
· Alyson Krueger
Kawasaki Heavy to develop shipbuilding AI robot amid welder shortage
Kawasaki Heavy will look to apply technology from its Corleo quadrupedal robot to the shipbuilding robot. (Photo by Eisaku Nitta)
· Staff Writer
AI doc bots fall for fake disease — and diagnose folks with it
Swedish researchers fed a fake medical diagnosis, along with phony scientific studies, into AI chatbots to see if they would fall for it – and they did.
· Jeanne Erickson
Meta targets May 20 for first wave of layoffs; additional cuts later in 2026
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· Reuters
Former AI SPAC Executives Indicted For Fabricating "Virtually All" Revenue And Customers
What looked like a booming AI company was, prosecutors say, an audacious house of cards built on deception.
· Tyler Durden
Age reversal is the tech world’s holy grail — can AI make it reality?
In this excerpt from “We Are As Gods: A Survival God for the Age of Abundance,” authors Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler explore what it means to be human in a world where technology has granted us seemingly limitless power. If it sometimes seems like humans can play at being God, the real question is how to do …
· Steven Kotler
Here are 3 forces that drove a remarkable, record-setting week on Wall Street
You can call it a comeback. Stocks rocketed to record highs last week on hopes of a peace deal with Iran, with the S & P 500 closing above 7,100 for the first time and the Nasdaq completing its longest-winning stretch since 1992 — 13 days of gains. For the week, the broad-based S & P jumped 4% while the tech-heavy N…
· Morgan Chittum
AI×情慾——中國千億生意的新賽道
（德國之聲中文網）中國是全球最大的情趣用品生產國，而中國企業家在其他領域也已全面擁抱人工智慧（AI）工具。儘管在周五法新社走訪（簡稱：上海API情趣生活展）時，部分參展商表示擔憂機器生成的色情內容可能帶來法律風險，但仍有許多商家熱衷於推銷其AI升級後的產品。
· 德聞
Bill Maher Slams AI As “Psychopaths” And Rips Tech Leaders On ‘Real Time’: “I Wouldn’t Let These Guys Around My Personal Data”
Bill Maher closed out Friday night’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher with a fiery “New Rules” segment that took direct aim at artificial intelligence — and the powerful figures behind it.
· Michael Haskoor
Nvidia's once-tight bond with gamers is cracking over AI, 'and that breaks my heart'
For its first 30 years, Nvidia wasn't a household name unless you were a gamer. Now, some of its original fan base feel left behind as artificial intelligence has made the chipmaker the world's most valuable company.
· Katie Tarasov