The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, an innovation pillar empowering China’s smart manufacturing, green transition and even breakthroughs in space sciences, is proving to be a key driver…
* The ongoing 2025 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum) Annual Conference highlights the transformation of Zhongguancun, China’s “Silicon Valley,” into a global innovation hub. * Nearly 100 robots from 15 companies…
Representation matters. Many decades ago, I read Carl Sagan’s novel Contact. It centred around a message from extraterrestrials that led to the building of “the Machine” that would take five…
CEO Data Vault, Mehwish Salman Ali, speaks at the inauguration ceremony of Pakistan’s first “home-grown” generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) platform, ‘Zahanat AI,’ in Islamabad, Pakistan, on March 20, 2025. (AN…
Women are disrupting workforce dynamics for better, freed from shiny chains of “work from office” by tech industry Despite the relentless grip of a fickle internet — Pakistan’s arch-nemesis in…
This spring, the challenging task of afforestation at the edge of the Mu Us Desert in northern China takes on a futuristic feel, with drones soaring through the air, transporting…
