Once China's wealthiest and most prominent tech leader, Ma's comeback has long been awaited as a signal that the country's previously freewheeling tech sector is returning to favour in Beijing
In 1950 the computing pioneer Alan Turing proposed the imitation game, a test in which a machine proves its intelligence by how well it can fool human interrogators into believing it's human
DeepSeek is now global force. But it's just one player in China's booming AI industry
AI has found its way into a number of industries, from transportation to health. Now it is being integrated with search engines
Its natural-language processing AI scored higher than humans; Alibaba says it's the first time a machine outperformed people