The Slack messages began arriving at 5:47 a.m. on a recent Monday. Three sales proposals had gone out the previous week and none of the team members had scheduled follow-ups. The reminders were crisp, professional and relentless — and they hadn’t been sent by a human. They came from Junior, an AI employee from the startup Kuse AI. Xiankun Wu , the company’s founder, is creating the kind of workpla...
The Slack messages began arriving at 5:47 a.m. on a recent Monday. Three sales proposals had gone out the previous week and none of the team members had scheduled follow-ups. The reminders were crisp, professional and relentless — and they hadn’t been sent by a human. They came from Junior, an AI employee from the startup Kuse AI. Xiankun Wu , the company’s founder, is creating the kind of workplace that feels both inevitable and unsettling. He’s offering a new type of colleague who is entirely virtual and behaves uncannily like the most driven new hire you’ve ever worked with. Wu, 31, designed Junior for almost any business, equipping it with the ability to tap into company data and communications challenges, along with the organizational memory it needs to know who does what and how colleagues are connected to each other. Wu is now courting global corporate customers, offering Junior as a full-fledged AI colleague capable of managing work processes within small and medium enterprises — at a cost of $2,000 a month. Junior has its own phone number, email and Slack account. It can join every Zoom call. “Getting used to the AI agent can be exhausting,” said Wu, who splits his time between Silicon Valley, Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Since its unveiling on March 13, more than 2,000 companies have joined the waiting list to check it out. Demo slots, which require a $500 deposit to deter the merely curious, are fully booked. The proposition is blunt: it’s labor, but AI-defined. Junior drafts marketing campaigns, updates customer relationship management systems, monitors inboxes, tracks deadlines across departments and generates reports. It does so proactively: Instead of waiting for prompts, it scans internal communications, identifies gaps and relentlessly nudges employees to close them. Junior is built upon Silicon Valley and China’s latest obsession: an open-source framework called OpenClaw that’s used for building AI agents, which can control computer systems and execute ...
US President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Markwayne Mullin was confirmed Department of Homeland Security secretary, placing the Oklahoma senator in charge of a Trump administration immigration crackdown that has triggered a 37-day funding shutdown of the cabinet agency.
US President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Markwayne Mullin was confirmed Department of Homeland Security secretary, placing the Oklahoma senator in charge of a Trump administration immigration crackdown that has triggered a 37-day funding shutdown of the cabinet agency.
(RTTNews) - The Taiwan stock market on Wednesday ended the four-day losing streak in which it had plunged almost 1,700 points or 5.3 percent. The Taiwan Stock Exchange now sits just above the 33,170-point plateau and it's expected to extend its gains on Thursday.
(RTTNews) - The Taiwan stock market on Wednesday ended the four-day losing streak in which it had plunged almost 1,700 points or 5.3 percent. The Taiwan Stock Exchange now sits just above the 33,170-point plateau and it's expected to extend its gains on Thursday.
Following a five-week market selloff that pushed major averages into correction territory, Gibbens Capital Management CIO Mark Gibbens says the pullback has created a prime buying opportunity for long-term investors eyeing the tech sector. Nvidia At A Discount Despite recent geopolitical headwinds and inflation concerns weighing heavily on the broader markets, Gibbens remains decidedly bullish on ...
Following a five-week market selloff that pushed major averages into correction territory, Gibbens Capital Management CIO Mark Gibbens says the pullback has created a prime buying opportunity for long-term investors eyeing the tech sector. Nvidia At A Discount Despite recent geopolitical headwinds and inflation concerns weighing heavily on the broader markets, Gibbens remains decidedly bullish on technology. Pointing to the roughly 10% drop across major indices, he noted that fundamentally stron
Shortly before the evening rush hour recently, chaos erupted at Hong Kong’s Wu Kai Sha MTR station when a wild boar stormed through the concourse. The animal, about 1.2 metres long and weighing around 40kg, knocked down an elderly man. The charging boar left a trail of blood on the station floor, injuring three other residents in a frenzied dash towards a nearby bus terminus and housing estates. “...
Shortly before the evening rush hour recently, chaos erupted at Hong Kong’s Wu Kai Sha MTR station when a wild boar stormed through the concourse. The animal, about 1.2 metres long and weighing around 40kg, knocked down an elderly man. The charging boar left a trail of blood on the station floor, injuring three other residents in a frenzied dash towards a nearby bus terminus and housing estates. “I saw it rampaging at the bus terminus while residents followed, snapping photos,” a woman working...
Veteran Hong Kong sports administrator Lawrence Yu Kam-kee is selling his Kowloon Tong home of over 50 years for about HK$190 million (US$24.2 million), after waiting patiently for market conditions to improve. “I had wanted to sell for a long time but waited until the market improved a bit to get a better price,” Yu told the South China Morning Post. He added that he had moved out of the house ab...
Veteran Hong Kong sports administrator Lawrence Yu Kam-kee is selling his Kowloon Tong home of over 50 years for about HK$190 million (US$24.2 million), after waiting patiently for market conditions to improve. “I had wanted to sell for a long time but waited until the market improved a bit to get a better price,” Yu told the South China Morning Post. He added that he had moved out of the house about a year ago as it was too large for a single occupant. The sale agreement had been signed and a...