BEIJING, March 17 (Reuters) - Shipments of foreign-branded smartphones, including Apple Inc's ( AAPL ) iPhone, in China fell 21% in January year-on-year, according to Reuters' calculations based on data released on Monday by a government-affiliated research firm. Calculations based on the data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed that during the month shipments of...

04:29 AM EDT, 03/17/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Baidu ( BIDU ) said Sunday it has launched its new artificial intelligence foundational models ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1. ERNIE 4.5 outperforms GPT-4.5 in multiple benchmarks, while the deep-thinking reasoning model ERNIE X1 is capable of performing on par with DeepSeek R1, both at comparatively lower price points, Baidu ( BIDU )...

04:22 AM EDT, 03/17/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Scholar Rock ( SRRK ) said Sunday that data from a phase 3 trial of its investigational therapy apitegromab showed clinically meaningful and consistent benefits in motor function in patients with spinal muscular atrophy. The trial is for patients already receiving survival motor neuron treatments, the company said. The company said the trial...

04:11 AM EDT, 03/17/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Dyne Therapeutics ( DYN ) said Sunday that long-term clinical data from an ongoing phase 1/2 clinical trial of its investigational drug DYNE-251 is showing clinically meaningful and sustained functional improvement in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The 32-patient trial is specifically for individuals with the rare genetic disease who are amenable to...