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Micron’s Taiwan unions are heading for a strike vote over bonuses

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Roughly 10,000 Micron workers in Taiwan are represented by two unions that are now preparing their members for a possible strike. About 80% of workers polled in a preliminary survey supported industrial action, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The dispute is about bonuses rather than base pay, and more specifically about how those bonuses are calculated. […]

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Singapore is putting S$220M into fintech as private funding hits a decade low

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Singapore has committed S$220M, about $173M, to its fintech sector over the next three years. It made the announcement three days after KPMG reported that private investment in Singaporean fintech had fallen to its weakest first half in roughly a decade. The timing is not a coincidence, and nobody is pretending otherwise. Gan Kim Yong, […]

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Japan wants stock and bond settlement to happen instantly, on a blockchain

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Japan is studying whether to move the settlement of stocks and government bonds onto blockchain infrastructure capable of running in real time around the clock, according to Nikkei, in a project involving the Financial Services Agency, the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Japan, and the country’s three largest banks. It is the sort of […]

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Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn

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Unitree’s shares have fallen roughly 45% from the peak they hit on their first day of trading in Shanghai. The slide has turned a national success story into an argument about how China prices its listings. The stock steadied on Tuesday after three consecutive days of decline, Reuters reported. The valuation of the Hangzhou humanoid […]

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China called off its ice-hunting Moon shot a day before launch

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China called off its most ambitious Moon mission the day before it was due to fly. The announcement runs to a single sentence. Chang’e 7 does not meet the conditions for launch, the China Manned Space Agency said on Sunday. It cannot go ahead in this year’s scheduled window. It gave no reason. What the […]

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Southeast Asia is planning four times the data centre capacity it runs

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Southeast Asia has 306 data centres running and 173 more in the pipeline, according to figures published on Tuesday. The capacity being planned is nearly four times what is already operating. Southeast Asia data centre investment will rise from $15.72bn in 2025 to $35.08bn by 2031, according to Arizton. The Chicago research firm puts that […]

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Nine charged in Taiwan over 130 Nvidia B300 servers bound for China

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Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted nine people over the alleged illegal export of high-end AI servers to China, among them an employee of Nvidia’s Taiwan operation and two from Super Micro. The charges are the first to emerge from an investigation that has run for months, having already produced detentions over server smuggling and reached inside Nvidia itself. […]

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Inner Mongolia signs $27bn of AI computing projects

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Inner Mongolia signed 12 green computing projects worth 186.46 billion yuan on Saturday, about $27.49bn. It also broke ground on a platform to sell Chinese AI services abroad. The state news agency Xinhua reported both from Hohhot, the regional capital. The conference that hosted the signings was held on the Cilechuan Grassland. China builds the […]

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Nvidia is in talks with the Korean inference chip designer Rebellions

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Nvidia is in early talks with the Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about a technical partnership, an investment or possibly an acquisition, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Jensen Huang met Rebellions co-founder and chief executive Sunghyun Park at Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters this week, people familiar with the matter told the news agency. They asked not […]

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DeepSeek launches an experimental multimodal model to rival Anthropic

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DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday and said its agent performance is close to Anthropic’s Opus-4.8. On DeepSeek’s own published table, it beats that model on three benchmarks out of eleven. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is live on the company’s API platform. It takes the text-only V4-Flash and adds the ability to read images and screenshots. […]

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