AI boom pushes chipmakers to expand across Asia Pacific, FedEx report finds
The artificial intelligence boom is no longer just a story about software models, cloud platforms, or the companies racing to build the next large language model. It is increasingly a story about wher...
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Fired OpenAI staffers say safety warnings led to dismissal
SAN FRANCISCO — Three former OpenAI security researchers on Thursday accused the ChatGPT maker of firing them for warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence, reigniting the debate over safet...
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The FBI has seized tools used by Chinese hackers for cyber operations, officials say
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The FBI has seized scanning and phishing tools used by a group of hackers that officials say is associated with the Chinese government and is believed responsible for disruptive cyb...
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China state funds double down on Hua Hong in legacy chip push
Chinese state funds are ramping up support for the country’s second-largest contract chipmaker, pouring billions of yuan into the parent of Hua Hong Grace Semiconductor and a new manufacturing facilit...
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Sales of winter products surge at convenience stores amid chilly weather
Sales of winter products surged at South Korean convenience stores as temperatures fell sharply this month, industry sources said Friday. According to retailers, sales of disposable hand warmers at GS...
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SK chief vows to speed up construction of new chip cluster in southwest
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said Friday his business group will make efforts to build a new semiconductor cluster in the southwestern part of the country as quickly as possible to meet growing glob...
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Ecosystem Roundup: Granite Asia, Google bundle cash and compute for Asia’s AI founders
Asia’s AI founders do not lack investor attention. What they lack is the expensive plumbing frontier AI demands: models, compute, technical help and patient capital. Granite Asia and Google AI Futures...
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From US$86,500 to US$81,000: The anatomy of a crypto deleveraging wave
The crypto market is reeling. Bitcoin trades around US$80,550 to US$81,000. Ethereum trades near US$2,410 to US$2,470. Both assets dropped sharply on October 9, 2026. An aggressive deleveraging wave a...
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AI chats are becoming the new starting point for online shopping
For years, online retail has been organised around a simple assumption: the customer journey begins on a search engine, marketplace, brand website, or app. That assumption is starting to look dated. A...
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SoftBank, Grab, PETROS explore AI infra platform in Sarawak
Sarawak is not usually the first place that comes to mind when Southeast Asia’s artificial intelligence race is discussed. Singapore has the region’s densest cloud and startup ecosystem, Malaysia’s Jo...
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JBL’s rival to Sonos is called the Cove, and it brings whole-home Wi-Fi audio from S$399
The Cove lineup consists of three speakers, and can even work with JBL soundbars to create a home theatre setup....
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AI labs are chasing a slice of the corporate pie in Southeast Asia
I’ve worked a lot with the Microsoft stack, and for a long time Excel was its staple. It gave Microsoft a foothold inside companies. Once a company ran its budgets, forecasts and operations in Excel, ...
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Apple announces “Welcome Home” event on 13 October in New York
The event will show just how serious Apple is about making a push into the smart home market....
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Why Jenni thinks researchers need more than ChatGPT for academic writing
Jenni is an academic research and writing platform used by more than six million researchers, who have written over 15 million papers on it. The US-headquartered company says it passed US$10 million i...
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DePIN and RWA alliances in 2026: Global momentum meets SEA opportunities
DePIN (Decentralised Physical Infrastructure Networks) crowdsources real-world resources like compute, storage, and connectivity via blockchain incentives. RWA tokenisation brings tangible assets (rea...
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Are you leading with people? Or are you leading with tech?
There’s a fundamental question that most leaders are avoiding right now, not because it’s too hard, but because the answer is uncomfortable. If you don’t understand where scarcity lives in the current...
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Samsung’s P9 and P7 portable SSDs supports USB4 and transfer speeds of up to 4,000MB/s
Samsung’s next-generation portable SSDs feature USB4 connectivity, delivering sequential read speeds of up to 4,000MB/s....
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ASEAN’s startup ecosystem is entering its accountability phase
Every mature startup ecosystem has eventually faced a period the venture community refers to, after the fact and usually with discomfort, as its accountability phase. The United States went through on...
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OpenAI users in Russia, Iran used models to push political agenda online, in media
OpenAI banned several accounts associated with two propaganda operations based in Iran and Russia, respectively, it confirmed Thursday — the latter of which the tech company said had the greatest reac...
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Lawmakers concerned over Google's plan to acquire AI models from Spirit Airlines data
A bipartisan group of dozens of lawmakers led by Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is concerned over Google’s plan to acquire Spirit Airlines data to train its AI model...
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Overwatch season 5 adds new hero, map and major changes
MANILA, Philippines — Blizzard Entertainment released Overwatch Season 5, “A Grim Doctrine,” on October 7, opening the final chapter of the game’s Reign of Talon storyline with new gameplay content, s...
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Trump's rekindled alliance with Elon Musk on display at medal ceremony
President Trump heaped praise on Elon Musk on Thursday as he awarded the tech leader with the National Medal of Science, just a little more than a year after the high-profile relationship between the ...
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Watch live: Trump to honor Elon Musk, tech leaders at science summit
President Trump is set to recognize some of the biggest names in technology Thursday at the Science: A New Golden Age summit in Washington. Trump will award the National Medal of Science to Tesla and ...
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Vance says foreign workers at Microsoft will no longer be able to apply for permanent status
Vice President Vance said Thursday that foreign workers at Microsoft will no longer be able to apply for permanent resident status in the U.S. through an employer-based program, after he accused the c...
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NFL urges Supreme Court to take up prediction market dispute
The NFL urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to take up a case over who has the authority to regulate prediction markets, arguing that wagers on the platforms should fall under state gambling laws. The...
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More threat data is useful only if security teams can act on it
Security teams have access to more threat intelligence than ever, but the volume of information can create another problem: figuring out what actually needs attention. Security Operations Centers are ...
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Samsung Electronics 1st Korean firm to top $80 bil. in quarterly operating profit
Samsung Electronics on Thursday estimated 107.4 trillion won ($80.28 billion) in operating profit for the third quarter, becoming the first Korean company to surpass 100 trillion won in quarterly oper...
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Hyosung Heavy Industries builds test facility for 2-gigawatt HVDC controller
Hyosung Heavy Industries, the power equipment and grid infrastructure unit of Korean conglomerate Hyosung Group, has built a facility to test the performance of its 2-gigawatt high-voltage direct curr...
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Hancom partners with AWS to bring Nomadian AI workforce platform to US
Korea's leading office software developer, Hancom, is taking its Nomadian artificial intelligence (AI) workforce platform to the U.S. market, teaming with Amazon Web Services to shape everything from ...
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Korea has no plans to follow US push to replace term AI with 'super intelligence'
Korea is not considering to replace the term artificial intelligence (AI) with “super intelligence,” or SI, according to the Ministry of Science and ICT, distancing itself from a terminology push unde...
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