Hong Kong lawmaker and engineering professor William Wong has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving and three other offenses following a car accident on the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) campus.

Scientists at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have announced a breakthrough in creating a chip that mimics neurons. This development could accelerate quantum computer advancements and aid in building electronics for extreme space conditions.

The HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have launched six new joint research projects following a successful pilot call.

Scientists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong are investigating the potential of popular GLP-1 weight-loss injections to aid patients recovering from severe strokes, particularly when used in conjunction with surgical procedures to remove blood clots.

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have developed a nasal spray designed to deliver neurotherapeutic powder directly to the brain as first aid for ischemic stroke patients. Clinical trials for the 'world-first' treatment are anticipated by 2030.

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has inaugurated its new School of Governance and Policy, aiming to foster global dialogue on critical challenges.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has established a new academy dedicated to nurturing female medical scientists, aiming to address the global gender disparity in medical research.

World-leading Vietnamese mathematician Ngo Bao Chau has said his decision to leave the US was not just the result of the worsening academic environment there, but also a vision to transform Asia into the next global powerhouse for maths and science. Ngo, the first Vietnamese recipient of the prestigious Fields Medal, will join the University of Hong Kong in June. “I want Asia to be the next America or the next Europe [as] a place where science and mathematics strive,” he said in an interview ...

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the El-Yurt Umidi Foundation in Uzbekistan, aiming to foster educational and academic cooperation.

Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek has partnered with Tencent Holdings and the University of Hong Kong to develop a new AI-based method aimed at improving the accuracy of three-dimensional design.

Over a thousand students, staff, and alumni of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have signed a petition demanding the reinstatement of a student expelled following a national security arrest.

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images; Getty Images; Rebecca Zisser/BI Tech's elite are taking their talents to South Beach — again. In January, David Sacks, the venture capitalist and crypto and AI czar, proclaimed that Miami will soon replace New York City as America's financial capital. Stripe's Patrick Collison has been marveling at the city's "boomtown" vibes. With California flirting with a one-time tax on billionaires, said billionaires like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg are buying oceanfront mansions. And on Tuesday, Palantir announced that it's moving its headquarters from Denver to Miami. Is Miami the next Silicon Valley? We've been here before. The pandemic sent waves of coastal workers to the city, turning it into a Zoomtown full of online venture capitalists like Keith Rabois and Delian Asparouhov, bitcoin bull runners, and purveyors of the finest NFTs. Billboards went up in San Francisco featuring a mock tweet from then-Miami mayor Francis Suarez: "Thinking about moving to Miami? DM me." Here's the thing: It's easy to fall for Miami when a big chunk of the workforce is stuck at home and online. Five years later, it's a lot harder to build companies there. "Miami is great three months out of the year," says one prominent venture capitalist who moved to the city during the pandemic but is now returning to an established hub. While the Floridian tax benefits are real, the investor has found that the social scene hollows out in the summer as residents leave, making it "hard to build roots or have reliable friends." More critically for the startup ecosystem, the scene lacked the "hustle" of San Francisco or New York. Silicon Valley practically runs on a conveyor belt from Stanford and Caltech to Y Combinator's Dogpatch offices. The machine turns students into founders, builders into companies, and companies into the next wave of founders. Miami, meanwhile, lacks a major university to pipe in tech talent. Instead, the investor says, the city tends to attract people who have already "made it." Miami and Fort Lauderdale-based startups raised $3 billion in 2025. Bay Area-based startups raised $177 billion. The Miami market, while busy, significantly lags behind the major hubs. Startups in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro raised about $3 billion in 2025, per PitchBook, down from $8.6 billion in 2022, when money and crypto sloshed about. The Bay Area, by contrast, still grabs 52% of the nation's venture funding, with $177 billion in capital pouring in last year. Alligators may be all around in Miami, but unicorns are hard to find. In January, Cast AI, a startup that helps companies cut cloud costs, crossed the $1 billion valuation mark, becoming the region's first homegrown unicorn in years. Before that, Adam Neumann, the ousted WeWork cofounder, debuted his Miami residential real-estate venture, Flow, at a $1 billion valuation in 2022. Even Garry Tan, the Y Combinator president and gadfly who's usually first in line to dunk on San Francisco's politics, has been blunt about where the breeding grounds are best. Tan recently said on X that the accelerator still hasn't opened offices outside the Bay Area because founders are simply more likely to build unicorns there. According to a Business Insider analysis of Crunchbase data, of the at least 97 new unicorns that investors minted in 2025, 43 of them were based in the Bay Area. But those who dismiss the city entirely miss the point. Miami isn't the next San Francisco. It's establishing itself as something else. Patrick Murphy, a former Florida congressman and entrepreneur, says that Miami's tech scene is growing, it's just being built in "reverse order." Silicon Valley, he says, emerged from an if you build it, they will come approach: Engineers built great companies first, which eventually created fortunes that cycled back into the community to fund the next generation of companies. Miami, however, has a more if you come, they will build it tact. It's attracted the "wealth achievers" first — the family offices, private equity names, and already-successful founders who emigrated for lifestyle reasons. Finance heavyweights like Citadel and Thoma Bravo arrived early. Vanguard, one of the world's largest asset managers, is eyeing an expansion in Miami as it targets more Latin American wealth. The city is now importing the machinery that follows them. Legal, accounting, and consulting firms are opening local offices to stay close to clients — and scoop up star talent that no longer needs to live near HQ. This dynamic has established Miami as a "control center" for decision-makers, Murphy argues, but not yet the "factory floor" where the actual work gets done. Murphy says that despite running a successful construction-tech startup, Togal.AI, his engineering team has been offshore from the beginning because the local talent pool simply "didn't exist" when he started in 2019. "If you go to Miami, you're not going to see dozens of engineers at a Starbucks cranking away," he says. "That's not here yet." Still, Miami's flood of wealth is creating demand for startups built on the city's local economy, especially in property tech and fintech, Murphy says. Togal.AI's annual recurring revenue has grown 1,000% over the past two years, Murphy says, and is now raising fresh venture funding in order to hire dozens of new employees this year. Palantir's move immediately became a kind of Rorschach test for Miami's future. "Florida is the new crypto," one user wrote on X. Maya Bakhai, a Fort Lauderdale resident and founder of the early-stage venture firm Spice Capital, tells me that the city will flourish alongside "net new" industries that are still taking shape and where the center of gravity isn't locked in yet. Crypto firms like MoonPay and QuickNode still treat South Florida as a home base, she notes. A new space-tech accelerator backed by the state is trying to persuade founders to stick around by pairing them with funders. Bakhai's bigger bet is that just as New York became the hub for e-commerce, Miami could become the place where creator businesses get built. Research out of the University of Hong Kong found Miami has more top influencers per capita than New York or Los Angeles. And then there's Palantir, the strongest signal flare yet that tech is taking America's Playground seriously. It's hard to know what the data giant's HQ move will mean in practice — Palantir hasn't said how many employees it plans to relocate, or whether it will offer moving packages to lure talent south. The company did not respond to an email request for comment. If Palantir does move a meaningful slice of its workforce, it would give Miami something it's been short on: a marquee tech employer that can recruit and keep technical workers on the ground year-round. On X, Palantir's move immediately became a kind of Rorschach test for Miami's future. ""Florida is the future," cheered Andreessen Horowitz investor Katherine Boyle. Others were less convinced. "Florida is the new crypto," one user wrote. "For the next 20 years, nothing will change, but they will always tell you 'big things are happening in Florida.'" Turning Miami into Silicon Beach is a long game, Bakhai argues. It won't be built by the billionaires buying houses to snowbird in today, she argues, but by the young strivers arriving for their first serious jobs — the entry-level analysts heading to Citadel and the junior lawyers starting at firms like Orrick. For the first time, she says, ambitious graduates can launch careers in Miami instead of treating New York or San Francisco as the default. The payoff, she says, comes years later, when they eventually spin off to start their own companies. Until then, Miami remains largely a playground for the "made it" crowd, waiting in the sun for the builders to come. Melia Russell is a reporter with Business Insider, covering the intersection of law and technology. Read the original article on Business Insider

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have developed an AI-powered blood test capable of predicting the onset of stroke and heart attack up to 15 years in advance.

Hong Kong's health minister stated that the government would not incur losses if the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) medical centre repays its public loan ahead of schedule, dismissing calls for a penalty.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong has proposed amendments to its governing laws, which would allow for the removal of university heads on new grounds such as misconduct or inefficiency, and the replacement of its alumni association.

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has launched a new School of Governance and Policy (SGP) with the aim of promoting global policy dialogue amidst current geopolitical tensions and fractured international relations.

New research from the University of Hong Kong challenges the common perception that retirees in Hong Kong are lonely and isolated, with findings soon to be published in Nature Cities journal.

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has entered the bond market with a new $1 billion note program to secure funding.

Professor Edwin Tso has been promoted to Chair Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, recognizing his contributions to academia and research.

City University of Hong Kong's College of Business is promoting its Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program, highlighting its depth for leaders.

Professor Edwin Tso has been promoted to Chair Professor at City University of Hong Kong, where he will lead new advancements in electricity-free cooling technology.

A team led by researchers from the University of Hong Kong has identified a specific protein that acts as an 'exercise sensor' in bones, explaining how physical activity contributes to bone strengthening.

Hong Kong authorities are preparing rehousing plans for residents displaced by the deadly Tai Po fire, while a student was expelled from CUHK for sedition related to a petition about the incident.

Hong Kong doctors have successfully performed the world’s first robotic living-donor liver transplant as part of a pioneering microsurgery programme, researchers at the University of Hong Kong revealed.

Scientists from the University of Hong Kong have discovered that fast-paced interval walking once a week can significantly reduce body fat and improve heart and lung health.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong has opened the city’s first full-stack interactive robotics lab, collaborating with 24 tech firms to train talent and develop humanoid robots over the next five years, aiming to bring AI to life.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) announced its private hospital will repay a HK$4 billion (US$510.9 million) government loan ahead of schedule, utilizing its growing financial reserves.

Professor Freddy Boey Yin Chiang, head of Hong Kong's City University, has resigned with immediate effect for personal reasons, two years ahead of schedule.

Hailey Cheng, a student at City University of Hong Kong, has described an anonymous pro-Beijing petition calling for her expulsion as an 'intimidation' campaign. The petition targets her for her actions as a whistleblower.

The Hong Kong Investment Corporation (HKIC), venture capital firm Gobi Partners, and the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have partnered to launch a new fund aimed at investing in technology start-ups spun off from the university.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has suspended Professor Johnny Li, who was arrested in Australia for posing as a student at a boys’ school and taking photos of its pupils.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has suspended an academic who reportedly pleaded guilty to posing as a schoolboy to photograph pupils at an elite boys’ school in Australia. Australian…

Andre Geim, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist known as the 'father of graphene,' is leaving Britain to join the University of Hong Kong as a chair professor in April.

Two Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) graduates lost a judicial challenge against their disqualification from an institutional election due to 'scandalous' conduct.