“AI has thrown developing economies a lifeline, and they should seize it,” Indermit Gill, chief economist of the World Bank Group, said as the organisation launched its annual World Development Report.

“They do not need large models or big data centres to reap its benefits,” he added, advocating for the adaptation of lower-

A Chinese speaker today might describe their day at work as first making a “PPT” (a PowerPoint presentation) and then having to “PS tu ” (Photoshop an image). After clocking off, they might “ chang K” (sing karaoke) with friends before taking the “C wei ” (centre spot) in a group photo.

These novel phrases spring from the widespread habit of adopting English abbreviations directly into daily speech, usually pronounced letter by letter.

While this is the organic result of cultural exchange

When Liao Heng joined Huawei Technologies’ chip-design unit in 2016, he was sceptical about whether China could ever build world-class semiconductors.

A former child prodigy who entered Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University in 1987 at age 14 before moving to Princeton University for postdoctoral research, Liao had spent over a decade in the United States watching what he described as a “long sunset” for American chip start-ups.

Working abroad, he noted, often bred a “blind arrogance

Hong Kong police are searching for a woman who allegedly splashed a “cream-like” liquid on the six‑year‑old son of actress and beauty queen Grace Chan Hoi‑lam at a cinema in Admiralty, following a dispute over the child’s behaviour during a movie screening.

A police source said on Tuesday that Chan, winner of the Miss Hong Kong 2013 pageant and wife of TVB actor Kevin Cheng Ka‑wing, filed a report with the force last Friday for splashing an “unknown