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Chinese researchers have built a solar desalination prototype that runs on sunlight alone, absorbs 90.2% of solar energy, cuts evaporation energy use by 45.7%, and — over two years — produces water…
A US think tank warns China has overtaken America in GPS-rival navigation, spy-satellite reconnaissance, and anti-satellite…
DeepSeek claims its new DSpark speculative decoding framework accelerates AI response generation by up to 85% — potentially…
China's CRAFT 'artificial sun' project has activated the world's largest superconducting magnet assembly for a fusion reactor,…
Chinese SiC chipmaker Basic Semiconductor is heading for a Hong Kong IPO as AI-driven data centre power demands open a major new…
Arctic climate scientist Li Xueke has quit the University of Pennsylvania for Hong Kong, citing a deteriorating US research…
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman posted 'team cooked, spicily' on X on 27 June 2026, signalling what observers read as a…
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman disclosed on X that the instant model powering ChatGPT was updated during the week of 28 June…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X teasing 750 tokens per second inference speed coming to model version '5.6 sol' in July 2026.…
