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Catherine ThorbeckeBloomberg |
If a conflict between the US and China were to emerge, potentially over Taiwan, Americans would have a far more serious threat to their everyday lives...
I wrote about Chinese app Xiaohongshu, known as RedNote in the US, months ago because it offered a window into the trends driving Gen Z culture in...
The idea of Elon Musk as a potential buyer for TikTok may seem like the craziest development yet in the saga of the US government’s determination to...
Indonesia isn’t taking a step back from its hardball approach to Apple Inc. The showdown has turned into quite a spectacle, but it’s unlikely the...
A messy, ongoing tech breakup between the US and China is forcing a rethink about what the industry might look like for consumers in a decoupled...
Asian tech will be in the firing line again in the new year. The most successful international app from China is now barreling toward an...
Anyone who has driven through the narrow, zig-zagging streets of Shibuya when they’re packed with pedestrians and double-loaded mamachari would...
Over the past year, I’ve noticed an overwhelming theme emerge when Asian tech leaders look at what comes next for artificial intelligence. There...
At a massive semiconductor trade show in Tokyo last week, I watched robots shoot hoops and play table tennis and witnessed an impressive lineup of...
ByteDance Ltd.’s options for TikTok in the US are looking increasingly desolate, as the tech war between Washington and Beijing boils over. The...
Do you think engaging with an emerging tech tool can change your firmly held beliefs? Or sway you toward a decision you wouldn’t have otherwise...
Australia’s social media ban for teens will not keep young people safe online. It may prevent some 15-year-olds from entering a burning building,...
SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son is OK with being wildly misunderstood, especially in the West. As he once noted, even Jesus was...
The US presidential election may be over, but the battle with China for high-tech supremacy is just heating up. And if past is prologue, President-...
If there was a tech Cold War brewing between Washington and Beijing, you wouldn’t know it from Apple Inc. head Tim Cook’s visit to China this week,...
Hopefully your year is going better than Samsung Electronics Co.’s. South Korea’s largest conglomerate has endured a humbling 2024. It has spent...
Nearly two years since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, I had my first true “wow” moment from the artificial intelligence frenzy. Granted, I’ve been...
To most Western observers, it would appear that China has driven its technology industry off a cliff. The number of startups fell by 50,000 between...
Nationalism, propaganda and hate speech on social media have been widely linked to a shocking act of real-world violence that threatens to...
Beijing has been rather quiet as TikTok, the first globally successful app born from its domestic tech sector, fights for its life in the US. The...
Earlier this month, OpenAI released its most-advanced models yet, saying they had the ability to “reason” and solve complex math and coding...
Australia’s government wants to ban children up to age 16 from social media, and is spending millions of dollars to figure out how. I’m willing to...
If there is one thing that the late Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs is remembered for, it’s that he knew how to put on a show. Long before Apple...
South Korea has been rocked by a wave of sexually explicit deepfake images being created and shared online, indiscriminately targeting women and...
In July, a popular TikTok creator in Malaysia reported to local police that she was being tormented on the platform by users threatening to rape...
Some gamers who received a copy of Black Myth: Wukong were given guidelines for what to talk about as they streamed it. Discussing its stunning...
Earnings reports from Chinese tech companies last week should be a wake-up call for Beijing. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and JD.com Inc. pulled out...
Chinese tech companies are racing ahead with artificial intelligence tools that can turn text into short videos. The public release of a handful of...
Japan’s artists have given the nation an outsize influence around the globe, with manga, anime and other cultural exports producing some of the...
Would you change your online habits if you knew everything you search, post and browse could be centrally monitored by the police? China, which...
Could a little league baseball team win the World Series in five years? Japan’s state-backed chip startup Rapidus has a similarly long-shot...
Beijing’s rigorous push for chatbots with core socialist values is the latest roadblock in its effort to catch up to the US in a race for...
After languishing for three decades, Japan is on the cusp of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to revitalize its economy through tech innovation and...