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China has performed the world's first commercial brain-computer interface surgery using Neuracle Medical Technology's NEO device at Shanghai's Huashan Hospital — beating Neuralink to commercial…
China's internet regulator approved Apple Intelligence for iPhones on 15 July 2026, with Alibaba's Qwen large language model…
Russian chemist Artem Oganov, awarded China's top international science honour by President Xi Jinping, declared China the…
Hong Kong has approved its first 'digitally native' tokenised fund — Baillie Gifford's BAGEY — where the public blockchain is the…
A foldable, self-propelled pontoon barge deployed by state-owned China Anneng Construction Group evacuated more than 6,000 people…
DeepSeek is reportedly seeking a US$70 billion valuation in a second funding round launched almost immediately after closing a…
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman posted a brief 'hello!' on X on July 15, 2026. The two-word greeting, carrying no additional…
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman on 15 July 2026 publicly flagged a dramatic spike in inference demand, praising his engineering…
Chip giant Nvidia on 14 July 2026 called open AI models essential for enterprises, citing the need for trust, control and…
