Chinese semiconductor design firm Biren Technology has unveiled its next-generation “supernode” solutions – systems designed to link thousands of AI chips across a single cluster – by using optical data transmission to bypass current hardware limits.
The launch underscores how these highly connected server systems have become one of the latest battlegrounds for AI infrastructure companies. The industry is currently racing to scale up raw computing power as artificial intelligence models advance to trillions of parameters and AI agent
Millions in China have been moved by a man who swam for three hours through floods to check on his parents’ status.
The floods in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang a utonomous r egion, caused by torrential rains and a number of dam collapses, have reportedly left 39 people dead and affected nearly 400,000 residents.
From July 3 to 6, cumulative rainfall in Guangxi’s southern region reached 400 mm to 600 mm, with Qinzhou city receiving over 80
The dispute escalated into the deadliest fighting between the neighbours in more than a decade last year, resulting in more than 100 military and civilian deaths and hundreds of injuries.
A ceasefire reached in December 2025 has largely held, but both sides have continued to accuse the other of breaches.
Some 43,347 day-school candidates are sitting Hong Kong’s Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exam this year, but there are only about 12,000 subsidised undergraduate places at the city’s eight public universities. So what options do the tens of thousands of remaining students have?
According to a survey by education authorities, 85 per cent of Form Six students in the 2024-25 cohort opted for local tertiary education, including bachelor’s
The opposition has been handed the chance to portray the government as both ineffective and hypocritical ahead of the poll
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The latest controversy centres on soybean salad oil produced by Central Union Oil Corporation, which was found to contain excessive levels of benzo[a]pyrene (BaP).
According to Taiwan’s food authorities, the Taichung
Zheng Yongnian, a leading political scientist, said the claims were campaign rhetoric for November’s midterm elections and were unlikely to have a significant impact on the China-US relationship.
Instead of repeatedly shifting blame onto other countries, Washington should reflect on how to reform its own democracy, he said in an interview.
During a prime-time address from the White House that lasted nearly 30 minutes, Trump accused China of interfering in the 2020 US presidential race – which he lost to Joe Biden –
But that ritual over almost three decades ended this week when the company closed all its remaining 67 operating outlets nationwide after suspending 37 others earlier as part of its restructuring.
The resumption of US strikes against Iran has thrust incoming UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham into a potential day one decision on how much to support Britain’s closest ally in its controversial military campaign.
Even as Burnham was installed as leader of the governing Labour Party on Friday, outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government was engaged in high-level talks about renewed US attacks on Iran, according to people familiar with the matter.
The prime minister-in-waiting was kept appraised of the strikes, which entered their seventh
