An annual gathering of the world’s top minds in artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining wider attention as it emerges as the new battleground in the competition between the US and China, according to event attendees. The six-day Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, or NeurIPS, wrapped last week in Vancouver, Canada, and attracted more than … Read more
A prestigious Chinese university is investigating after media reports alleged a staff member leading an exchange programme fabricated invitation letters from Cambridge University, resulting in more than 20 students being rejected for visas and facing a future ban by Britain. In a statement released on Tuesday, Zhejiang University’s school of economics said it had filed … Read more
At a time when US president-elect Donald Trump is reported to have once again tapped tariff hawk Robert Lighthizer for the US trade representative role, analysts are underscoring the need for “supply chain diplomacy” to achieve balanced solutions in trade between China and the United States. A working group, jointly formed by Zhejiang University and … Read more
She managed to survive the fierce competition. After her graduation from Fudan, she expanded her master’s thesis on the gap between urban and rural students at top universities in China, and her findings were published early last year. Zheng’s book, which discusses class differences from a sociological perspective, is one of the most prominent of … Read more
The wave of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots allowed for public use in mainland China enables many users to create new content – including audio, code, images, simulations, videos and grammatically correct text – to entertain and help with everyday tasks. That demand has led to the local development of more than 200 large language models … Read more
“I am suing Ni Liangkang and the Commercial Press in China, because the Chinese-language version of Husserl’s collected works published is basically illegal and infringing,” Kern said in a video statement sent to the Post. The book in dispute, “On the Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity”, is a compilation of the writings of German philosopher Edmund Husserl, … Read more
