@Techmeme@techhub.socialHong 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-…
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- 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.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r3zc
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: HSBC and Standard Chartered are set to be among the first licensed stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong, as the city pushes to become a crypto hub (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-13/hsbc-standa…
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social
@servelan@newsie.socialHong 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
@cdarwin@c.imThe S&P 500 fell 1.5 percent on Thursday, as concerns grew about oil prices rising amid the prolonged conflict in the Middle East.
The Stoxx 600, a Pan-European index, fell 0.6 percent.
Stocks in Asia, where countries import vast quantities of oil and gas, slumped broadly on Thursday. Major benchmark indexes in Japan closed just over 1 percent lower, while Taiwan fell about 1.5 percent. The Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong fell a little less than 1 percent.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA 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
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialChinese 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
@edintone@mastodon.green19 Cities Including London, San Francisco, Hong Kong Achieve ‘Remarkable Reductions’ in Air Pollution https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/19-cities-including-london-san-francisco-hong-kong-achieve-remarkable-reductions-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHSBC and Standard Chartered obtain the first stablecoin licenses in Hong Kong, beating 34 other applicants; they are expected to issue stablecoins in H2 2026 (Kiuyan Wong/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA Hong Kong appellate court overturns fraud convictions against Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, a rare legal victory for the prominent pro-democracy activist (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/26/jimmy-lai-conviction-wins-a…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeAlthough it might be hard to focus on cybersecurity today, check out today's Metacurity for a quick scan of the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Russia aids Iran with satellite targeting, cyber ops against Middle East infrastructure, report,
--Cyber-enabled fraud reached $17.6b in 2025,
--Hackers accessed files of Jones Day,
--Storm-1175 deploys n-day and zero day exploits,
--GPU rowhammering enters new territory,
--CISA o…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social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
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialGood Morning from Hong Kong
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHong 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…
@@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot@mastoxiv.page@mastoxiv.pageCreation 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…
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialWhat's immediately noticeable in Hong Kong is the noise of the street traffic. Majority of the cars are still combustion engines. It's so fuckin loud compared to mainland China cities.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Chinese AI circuit board maker Victory Giant plans a Hong Kong IPO as soon as April that may raise $2B ; Chinese regulators approved the IPO last week (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUber 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
@nemobis@mamot.fr"Airfares on Asia-Europe routes spike on war in Iran: Travelers hoping for a return to more moderate long-haul airfares this summer are in for a rude awakening."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialAbout to enter the high speed train from Zhangjiajie to Hong Kong. 7hrs ride across the country.
@joe@toot.worksMaybe if I was already in Hong Kong?
@newstik@social.heise.deMy first encounter with Chuck Norris was in a Hong Kong cinema, 1991: Missing in Action.
Cult.
#RIP #ChuckNorris #film
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChinese photonic chipmaker Yuanjie reported 2025 revenue up 138.5% YoY to ~$86.99M, data center revenue up 719% to ~$56.89M, ahead of its April 1 Hong Kong IPO (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3348311/
@cdarwin@c.imIn 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Moonshot AI may scrap its Cayman structure for a China or Hong Kong entity to prepare for a Hong Kong IPO and plans to raise funding at ~$18B valuation (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chinas-moonshot-ai-s…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Chinese optics company and Nvidia supplier Innolight confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $3B ; Innolight is listed in Shenzhen (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-…
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.pageReplaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[4/5]:
- Retrieving Climate Change Disinformation by Narrative
Upravitelev, Solopova, Jakob, Sahitaj, M\"oller, Schmitt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22015 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116283633674519408
- PaperVoyager : Building Interactive Web with Visual Language Models
Dasen Dai, Biao Wu, Meng Fang, Wenhao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22999 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116289015432093128
- Continual Robot Skill and Task Learning via Dialogue
Weiwei Gu, Suresh Kondepudi, Anmol Gupta, Lixiao Huang, Nakul Gopalan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03166 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/113089412115632702
- Shifting Perspectives: Steering Vectors for Robust Bias Mitigation in LLMs
Zara Siddique, Irtaza Khalid, Liam D. Turner, Luis Espinosa-Anke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05371 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114136994263573386
- SkillFlow: Scalable and Efficient Agent Skill Retrieval System
Fangzhou Li, Pagkratios Tagkopoulos, Ilias Tagkopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06188 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/114306773220502860
- Large Language Models for Computer-Aided Design: A Survey
Licheng Zhang, Bach Le, Naveed Akhtar, Siew-Kei Lam, Tuan Ngo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08137 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114504972217393639
- Structured Agent Distillation for Large Language Model
Liu, Kong, Dong, Yang, Li, Tang, Yuan, Niu, Zhang, Zhao, Lin, Huang, Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13820 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114544636506163783
- VLM-3R: Vision-Language Models Augmented with Instruction-Aligned 3D Reconstruction
Fan, Zhang, Li, Zhang, Chen, Hu, Wang, Qu, Zhou, Wang, Yan, Xu, Theiss, Chen, Li, Tu, Wang, Ranjan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20279 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/114578817567171199
- Learning to Diagnose Privately: DP-Powered LLMs for Radiology Report Classification
Bhattacharjee, Tian, Rubin, Lo, Merchant, Hanson, Gounley, Tandon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04450 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/114635189706505648
- L-MARS: Legal Multi-Agent Workflow with Orchestrated Reasoning and Agentic Search
Ziqi Wang, Boqin Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00761 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115140304787881576
- Your Models Have Thought Enough: Training Large Reasoning Models to Stop Overthinking
Han, Huang, Liao, Jiang, Lu, Zhao, Wang, Zhou, Jiang, Liang, Zhou, Sun, Yu, Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23392 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115293169353788311
- Person-Centric Annotations of LAION-400M: Auditing Bias and Its Transfer to Models
Leander Girrbach, Stephan Alaniz, Genevieve Smith, Trevor Darrell, Zeynep Akata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03721 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115332690912652473
- Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models
Zhang, Hu, Upasani, Ma, Hong, Kamanuru, Rainton, Wu, Ji, Li, Thakker, Zou, Olukotun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04618 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115332999596603375
- Mitigating Premature Exploitation in Particle-based Monte Carlo for Inference-Time Scaling
Giannone, Xu, Nayak, Awhad, Sudalairaj, Xu, Srivastava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05825 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115338159696513898
- Complete asymptotic type-token relationship for growing complex systems with inverse power-law co...
Pablo Rosillo-Rodes, Laurent H\'ebert-Dufresne, Peter Sheridan Dodds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02069 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicssocph_bot/115496283627867809
- ViPRA: Video Prediction for Robot Actions
Sandeep Routray, Hengkai Pan, Unnat Jain, Shikhar Bahl, Deepak Pathak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07732 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/115535941444003568
- AISAC: An Integrated multi-agent System for Transparent, Retrieval-Grounded Scientific Assistance
Chandrachur Bhattacharya, Sibendu Som
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14043
- VideoARM: Agentic Reasoning over Hierarchical Memory for Long-Form Video Understanding
Yufei Yin, Qianke Meng, Minghao Chen, Jiajun Ding, Zhenwei Shao, Zhou Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12360 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115729238732682644
- RadImageNet-VQA: A Large-Scale CT and MRI Dataset for Radiologic Visual Question Answering
L\'eo Butsanets, Charles Corbi\`ere, Julien Khlaut, Pierre Manceron, Corentin Dancette
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17396 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115762705911757243
- Measuring all the noises of LLM Evals
Sida Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21326 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115779597137785637
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@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: 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
@danyork@mastodon.socialNext up a talk about "reliability engineering challenges in networking for AI"...
#IETF125 #IETF #AI #Reliability
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChinese 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Neil Shen of HSG, formerly Sequoia China, which raised $9B from US investors before US restrictions and has funded Manus and other Chinese startups (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-hong-…
