Richard Chen
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Aug 21, 2026
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China’s telecoms giants bet on ‘token factories’ as AI drives revenue growth (opens the original)
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The country’s ‘big three’ telecoms operators are investing heavily in AI computing capacity, as they cash in on a surge in token usage China’s three state-owned telecoms giants have made billable artificial intelligence tokens a key focus of their growth strategies, as AI adoption accelerates across the country and computing demand soars. China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom all pointed to AI and computing operations as key growth drivers in their first-half financial disclosures release
AgiBot dethrones Unitree as world’s top humanoid maker ahead of IPOs (opens the original)
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AgiBot’s shipments surged 562 per cent year on year, supported by a portfolio of full-size bipedals, compact units and wheeled robots China’s AgiBot has surpassed its domestic rival Unitree Robotics to become the world’s largest humanoid robot vendor in the first half of 2026, according to new research, as both industry heavyweights prepare for public listings amid a physical AI boom. Shanghai-based Agibot captured 44 per cent of the global market after shipping roughly 8,400 humanoid robots fro
Programmed to impress: AI make-up arm dazzles in Hong Kong hackathon (opens the original)
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Personalised make-up assistant handed top honours after lipstick demonstration, beating more than 160 global competitors in finals Imagine a woman sitting at her vanity as a robotic arm reaches across the table, picks up her lipstick, and applies it to her lips while running through her morning schedule. Meet Iron Bestie, a personalised make-up assistant that just snatched top honours at what organisers billed as Hong Kong’s first physical artificial intelligence hackathon, beating more than 160
OpenAI blinks in face-off with Chinese rivals, making big price cuts (opens the original)
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Dramatic move makes GPT-5.6 Luna the ‘most attractive’ in intelligence-per-dollar rankings, above Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.2 and MiniMax’s M3 In a post on social media platform X on Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced an 80 per cent drop in developer pricing for its lightweight GPT-5.6 Luna model, bringing application programming interface (API) costs down to US$0.20 per million input tokens and US$1.20 per million output tokens. API fees are what developers pay to integrate AI features directly i
Google makes Gemini Spark AI agent available to Hongkongers (opens the original)
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Roll-out of agent that connects with Google’s Workspace tools echoes industry-wide push into agentic AI Google on Wednesday launched its artificial intelligence agent Gemini Spark in the Hong Kong market, giving local users direct access to a smart assistant to manage complex digital workflows. The launch came months after the American tech giant’s decision in March to lift regional geofences for generative AI services, starting with the Gemini chatbot. Hong Kong users can now access Gemini with
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