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Sources: Salesforce's Slack tells customers in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba before February (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/salesforces-slack-stop-…

Salesforce’s Slack to Stop Direct Service in China, Farm Out to Alibaba
Salesforce’s Slack has told customers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba Group before February, if they want to continue with instant-messaging service, according to a Slack customer in mainland China and an Alibaba Cloud employee. The move is in response to a privacy and data security law that came into effect this year in

Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai is found guilty of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring to publish seditious articles (Kanis Leung/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-ve…

Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted in landmark national security trial
Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, has been convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court. Three government-vetted judges on Monday found Lai, 78, guilty of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. He pleaded not guilty to all charges. Under Hong Kong’s sweeping national security law, Lai could face up to life imprisonment. A mitigation hea…

香港内地化的速度真的是超越光速//4 movies 'disappear' from Hong Kong Film Awards' contenders list - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP https://apple.news/A10727rn5QwyaeM7Fkut7Pw

4 movies 'disappear' from Hong Kong Film Awards' contenders list — Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Four movies have been excluded from the Hong Kong Film Awards’ (HKFA) contenders list this year with no explanation, sparking censorship concerns.

BREAKING: Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty under national security law (Hong Kong Free Press HKFP)
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/15/breaking-hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-found-guilty-under-national-security-law/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p54#a251214p54

Sources: 6 Chinese AI companies, including chip firms Montage and GigaDevice, are set to go public in Hong Kong in the coming weeks, aiming to raise up to $1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/…

Hong Kong-based WeLab, which operates two digital banks in Hong Kong and Indonesia, raised $220M in equity and debt from HSBC, Prudential Hong Kong, and others (Denise Wee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

In Hong Kong, companies have received “America 250” forms from the U.S. consulate
soliciting donations.
In Japan, companies have heeded the call and committed to tens of millions of dollars in contributions.
In Singapore, the American ambassador pressed for donations before a room full of executives at a dinner at one of the city-state’s most expensive hotels.
The solicitations from the diplomatic outposts come as Trump's allies are aggressively raising money for a…

Like Trump, U.S. Embassies Are Raising Cash for Lavish July Fourth Parties
Some of Washington’s diplomatic outposts in Asia are raising millions for events to mark the 250th independence anniversary. One ambassador offered to sing and dance.

Hong Kong media baron and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/09/hong-kong-media-tycoon-democracy-activist-jimmy-lai-sentenced-imprisonment.html

After the building fire, Hong Kong summoned AFP, FT, NYT, AP, Bloomberg, and WSJ journalists, telling them to avoid "trouble making", and arrested a commentator (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/12/hong-kong-arre

Hong Kong arrests commentator, summons international media over deadly fire - Committee to Protect Journalists
Updated on December 8, 2025 2:31 AM EST New York, December 8, 2025—Chinese and Hong Kong authorities must immediately stop harassing journalists, release news commentator Wong Kwok-ngon, and allow the media to freely cover the city’s most deadly fire in decades, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. In a rare move, Beijing’s national security arm...

Crypto exchange HashKey closed flat in its Hong Kong debut, after rising as much as 6.6% before falling 8.4% intraday, amid a weakness in digital assets (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/crypto-exchange-hashke…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#BetweenTheEars
- Return to the City of Darkness
Return to Kowloon-City of Darkness. Writer Paul French conjures up this once teeming Hong Kong megastructure - at one point the densest concentration of humanity anywhere.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r3zc

Negative Lichtbrechung mit natürlichem Magnetmaterial demonstriert
Forscher der University of Hong Kong demonstrieren negative Lichtbrechung mit dem natürlichen Magnetmaterial CrSBr – eine Alternative zu Metamaterialien.

Frequent Arctic wildfires could cut snow cover by 18 days, impacting global climate and ecology #Arctic

Frequent Arctic wildfires could cut snow cover by 18 days, impacting global climate and ecology
The correlation between Arctic wildfires and abnormal snow cover under global warming is of growing concern. A comprehensive quantitative assessment by researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has shown that increasingly frequent seasonal wildland fires across the Arctic in recent years have delayed snow cover formation by at least five days and could lead to a future 18-day reduction of snow cover duration, with implications for global ecosystems.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Gorillaz:
🎵 Hong Kong
#Gorillaz
https://cassiosa.bandcamp.com/track/hong-kong
https://open.spotify.com/track/2UhmkV1lXMlRzmevvG8TRw

Sources: Chinese chip designer Montage, a Shanghai-listed company valued at $22B, plans a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $900M , backed by Alibaba and JPMorgan (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades burned through the night,
leaving at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing
with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise apartment buildings into the morning.
Police had arrested three men on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with fire
which began Wednesday afternoon in a housing complex in Tai Po district, a suburb in the New Territories.
By Thursday morning local time, the fire was yet to be pu…

3 arrested in Hong Kong, as a high-rise fire leaves at least 44 dead and 279 reported missing
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades burned through the night, leaving at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise a...

🐭 High-speed imaging tracks live brain cell activity in awake mice
#brain

High-speed imaging tracks live brain cell activity in awake mice
A research team from the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has achieved a breakthrough in brain imaging by developing the world's first technology to capture high-resolution images of the brains of awake experimental mice in a nearly noninvasive manner.

Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based payments, raised a $107M Series B led by Goodwater Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$200M (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/382729/redotpay-series-b-stablecoin-payments…

Creation of ultracold heteronuclear p-wave Feshbach molecules
Fan Jia (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China), Zhichao Guo (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China), Zerong Huang (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China), Dajun Wang (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, State Key Laboratory of Quantum Information Technologies and Mate…

Just finished "Age 16" by Rosena Fung. It's an excellent semi-autobiographical graphic novel about beauty standards, being fat, and how these things echo down generations, connecting 1954 Guangdong, 1972 Hong Kong, and 2000 Toronto.
The art is lovely, as is the message of accepting your body and standing up to your family when necessary.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Death Toll Rises to 128 in Hong Kong High-Rise Fire - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/world/asia/hong-kong-fire.html

A Hong Kong court sentences the 78-year-old Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison over national security charges, ending a five-year legal saga (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Holy fuck Hong Kong.

Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice rose 54% in its Hong Kong debut after raising ~$600M in its IPO, and reported H1 2025 profit of ~$84M, up 14% from H2 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-12/gigadevice-s…

Awful. How’s that even possible? I thought modern building materials would prevent this
Edit: might be bamboo scaffolding
#hongkong<…

Chinese chip designer Montage raised $902M in its Hong Kong IPO, jumping 64% in its market debut, the biggest rise since Kuaishou's $6.2B Hong Kong IPO in 2021 (Julia Zhong/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Shares of Chinese AI chip designer Shanghai Biren Technology (6082.HK)
opened 82.1% higher in their Hong Kong debut on Friday,
kicking off the financial hub's first listing of 2026.
The strong debut follows a blockbuster year for Hong Kong's equity market in 2025
and points to a likely wave of AI and semiconductor offerings this year
as China accelerates efforts to build domestic chip alternatives
in response to U.S. curbs on technology exports.

Filing: HashKey, Hong Kong's largest licensed crypto exchange, is aiming to raise up to ~$215M in its IPO in the city (Kumar Tanishk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hashkey-launches-hong-kong-ipo-seeking-up…

"Climate whiplash by 2064: Study projects extreme swings in rainfall and drought for Asia"
#Asia #Climate #ClimateChange

Climate whiplash by 2064: Study projects extreme swings in rainfall and drought for Asia
A climate study led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with an international research team, reveals that under a high-emission scenario, the Northern Hemisphere summer monsoons region will undergo extreme weather events starting in 2064. Asia and broader tropical regions will face frequent "subseasonal whiplash" events, characterized by extreme downpours and dry spells alternating every 30 to 90 days which trigger climate disruptions with catastrophi…

Shares of JD.com's JingDong Industrials, a supply chain tech and services provider, opened down 7.8% after the company raised ~$383M in its Hong Kong IPO (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/jingdong-ind…

Uber plans to expand its robotaxi services to Hong Kong, Madrid, Houston, and Zurich in 2026; Hong Kong will be Uber's first autonomous market in Asia (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

New toy: Font coverage analyzer (alpha)
blueset.github.io/font-coverage/

iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement to hand control to its secured lender and key supplier, Shenzhen Picea (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/robot…

Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years
iRobot Corp. filed for bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement that will hand control of the consumer robot maker to Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co., its main supplier and lender, and Santrum Hong Kong Co.

Chinese AI startup MiniMax jumped as much as 54% in its Hong Kong debut on Friday, after raising ~$619M in its IPO priced at ~$21.17 per share (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-08/ai-firm-min…

Chinese AI startup MiniMax raises $619M in its Hong Kong IPO, at the top of the range; sources: its institutional offering was oversubscribed by 70x (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Zhipu AI launches a share sale to raise ~$560M in a Hong Kong IPO at a valuation of ~$6.6B, which would make it the first LLM developer listed in Hong Kong (Themis Qi/South China Morning Post)
https://www.sc…

China’s Zhipu AI launches US$560 million share sale amid heated IPO tech race
The company, marketed overseas as Z.ai, eyes US$6.6 billion valuation with Hong Kong’s first large language model listing.

Chinese AI company Zhipu opened up 3.3% in its Hong Kong trading debut after raising ~$558M in its IPO at a valuation of about $6.55B (Yantoultra Ngui/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinese-tech-companie…

Hong Kong-listed Zhipu AI surged 30% after releasing its GLM-5, an open-source LLM with enhanced coding capabilities and long-running agent tasks (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/chinese-ai-stocks-new-model-and-agent-releases-zhipu-mini…

Zhipu leads rally in Chinese AI stocks, surging 30%, as a wave of new releases hits market
The Shanghai STAR AI Industry Index climbed 1.7% before paring gains.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
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- Sample, Don't Search: Rethinking Test-Time Alignment for Language Models
Gon\c{c}alo Faria, Noah A. Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03790 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114301112970577326
- A Survey on Archetypal Analysis
Aleix Alcacer, Irene Epifanio, Sebastian Mair, Morten M{\o}rup
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12392 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/114357826909813483
- The Stochastic Occupation Kernel (SOCK) Method for Learning Stochastic Differential Equations
Michael L. Wells, Kamel Lahouel, Bruno Jedynak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11622 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114539065460187982
- BOLT: Block-Orthonormal Lanczos for Trace estimation of matrix functions
Kingsley Yeon, Promit Ghosal, Mihai Anitescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12289 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathNA_bot/114539035462135281
- Clustering and Pruning in Causal Data Fusion
Otto Tabell, Santtu Tikka, Juha Karvanen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15215 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114550346291754635
- On the performance of multi-fidelity and reduced-dimensional neural emulators for inference of ph...
Chloe H. Choi, Andrea Zanoni, Daniele E. Schiavazzi, Alison L. Marsden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11683 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114692410563481289
- Beyond Force Metrics: Pre-Training MLFFs for Stable MD Simulations
Maheshwari, Tang, Ock, Kolluru, Farimani, Kitchin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14850 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicschemph_bot/114709402590755731
- Quantifying Uncertainty in the Presence of Distribution Shifts
Yuli Slavutsky, David M. Blei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18283 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114738165218533987
- ZKPROV: A Zero-Knowledge Approach to Dataset Provenance for Large Language Models
Mina Namazi, Alexander Nemecek, Erman Ayday
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20915 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/114754394485208892
- SpecCLIP: Aligning and Translating Spectroscopic Measurements for Stars
Zhao, Huang, Xue, Kong, Liu, Tang, Beers, Ting, Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01939 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophIM_bot/114788369702591337
- Towards Facilitated Fairness Assessment of AI-based Skin Lesion Classifiers Through GenAI-based I...
Ko Watanabe, Stanislav Frolov, Aya Hassan, David Dembinsky, Adriano Lucieri, Andreas Dengel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17860 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/114912976717523345
- PASS: Probabilistic Agentic Supernet Sampling for Interpretable and Adaptive Chest X-Ray Reasoning
Yushi Feng, Junye Du, Yingying Hong, Qifan Wang, Lequan Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10501 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115032101532614110
- Unified Acoustic Representations for Screening Neurological and Respiratory Pathologies from Voice
Ran Piao, Yuan Lu, Hareld Kemps, Tong Xia, Aaqib Saeed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20717 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/115111255835875066
- Machine Learning-Driven Predictive Resource Management in Complex Science Workflows
Tasnuva Chowdhury, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11512 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_bot/115213444524490263
- MatchFixAgent: Language-Agnostic Autonomous Repository-Level Code Translation Validation and Repair
Ali Reza Ibrahimzada, Brandon Paulsen, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Joey Dodds, Daniel Kroening
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16187 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_bot/115247172280557686
- Automated Machine Learning Pipeline: Large Language Models-Assisted Automated Dataset Generation ...
Adam Lahouari, Jutta Rogal, Mark E. Tuckerman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21647 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot/115286737423175311
- Quantifying the Impact of Structured Output Format on Large Language Models through Causal Inference
Han Yuan, Yue Zhao, Li Zhang, Wuqiong Luo, Zheng Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21791 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115287166674809413
- The Generation Phases of Flow Matching: a Denoising Perspective
Anne Gagneux, S\'egol\`ene Martin, R\'emi Gribonval, Mathurin Massias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24830 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115462527449411627
- Data-driven uncertainty-aware seakeeping prediction of the Delft 372 catamaran using ensemble Han...
Giorgio Palma, Andrea Serani, Matteo Diez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04461 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSY_bot/115507785247809767
- Generalized infinite dimensional Alpha-Procrustes based geometries
Salvish Goomanee, Andi Han, Pratik Jawanpuria, Bamdev Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09801 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/115547135711272091
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Sources: Shanghai-based AI startup MiniMax plans to price its Hong Kong IPO at ~$21, the top of its marketed range, and will stop taking orders a day early (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Filing: JD.com's JingDong Industrials, or JDi, a supply chain technology and services provider in China, aims to raise up to ~$420M in its Hong Kong IPO (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/jdcoms-jdi-launche…

Taiwan's data shows the US became its top export destination in 2025 over China, including Hong Kong, the first time since 1999, partly driven by AI tech demand (Hideaki Ryugen/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/trade/taiwan-…

Taiwan exports to US overtake those to China on AI tech demand
Wider goods trade surplus in 2025 stokes worries over Trump tariff pressure

Chinese AI chip startup Biren surged as much as 119% in its Hong Kong debut, after raising ~$717M in an IPO priced at ~$2.52 per share (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-02/ai-chip-designer-biren-to-d…

Baidu's AI chip unit Kunlunxin confidentially files for a Hong Kong IPO, paving the way for a spin-off; a recent fundraising reportedly valued it at ~$3B (Sneha Kumar/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 28% in 2025, its best percentage performance since 2017, driven by tech, AI, and semiconductor stocks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/hon…

Filing: Chinese AI chip startup Biren raises ~$717M in its Hong Kong IPO; institutional and retail tranches were oversubscribed ~26x and ~2,348x, respectively (Himanshi Akhand/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…

Filing: Chinese chip designer OmniVision Integrated Circuits seeks to raise up to ~$617M in a Hong Kong IPO; HKEX: Hong Kong IPOs have raised ~$36B in 2025 (Sneha Kumar/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Chinese AI firms are leading a wave of IPOs in Hong Kong, where at least 25 companies debuted in December 2025, the busiest month for deals since November 2019 (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Filing: Chinese AI startup MiniMax seeks to raise up to ~$538.5M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 25.4M shares at a price range of ~$19.40 to ~$21.20 per share (Shivangi Lahiri/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…

Shares of Insilico rose 45% in their Hong Kong trading debut after the AI drug discovery startup raised $293M in an IPO; Insilico reported $85M in 2024 revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/a…

Filing: Chinese AI chipmaker Axera aims to raise up to ~$379.2M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 104.9M shares at ~$3.61 each; trading expected to start February 10 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Filing: Chinese chip designer Montage plans to raise up to ~$902M in a Hong Kong IPO, pricing shares at ~$13.69, and expects trading to start February 9 (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Pony AI's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 6.7% after it said its Guangzhou operations had broken even per car, as it targets a 3,000 global robotaxi fleet in 2026 (Linda Lew/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Pony AI Rises After Guangzhou Robotaxi Operations Break Even
Pony AI Inc. shares rose for a third day in Hong Kong trading, arresting a steep decline since listing three weeks ago, after the robotaxi firm said its Guangzhou operations had broken even on a per-car basis in an early indication its business model is sustainable.

Chinese AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax are set to go public in Hong Kong on January 8 and 9, respectively; MiniMax has 210M users, and Zhipu has 8,000 clients (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-06/o…

Chinese autonomous trucking company DeepWay raised ~$173M ahead of its planned Hong Kong IPO, filed in November 2025; DeepWay reported ~$215M in H1 2025 revenue (Dong Cao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Chinese AI chipmaker Biren Technology plans to raise up to ~$623M in a Hong Kong IPO, pricing shares at ~$2.19 to ~$2.52, and expects trading to start January 2 (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…

Filing: Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice aims to raise up to ~$600M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 28.9M shares at up to ~$21 each (Nichiket Sunil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-based-gigadev…

Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax is seeking to raise $600M from its Hong Kong IPO, set for January 2026, and has secured Alibaba and the ADIA as backers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/alibaba-…