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DeepSeek lit China’s AI price war by making tokens absurdly cheap. Now it is doing something no rival has dared: charging more when demand runs high. The Chinese startup has told API customers it will double the price of its V4 models during busy hours, according to the South China Morning Post, which saw the […]
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CBC plans to raise its annual technology spending to more than $771mn, according to Bloomberg, as Singapore’s second-largest lender leans harder into AI and digital banking. The increase marks one of the first strategic signals from Tan Teck Long, who took over as group chief executive on 1 January 2026. Tan succeeded Helen Wong, who retired at […]
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South Korea’s competition regulator has accused Google of abusing its dominant position in the Android app market, and signalled it will recommend corrective measures and a financial penalty. The Korea Fair Trade Commission said on Wednesday that its Market Surveillance Bureau found conduct affecting 14.16 trillion won, or roughly $9.1bn, in relevant revenue, according to Reuters. […]
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Asia’s factories grew again in June, and the global scramble for AI hardware is doing much of the lifting, according to survey data published this week. Brisk demand for chips, servers, and data-centre equipment kept order books full even as the Iran war pushed up energy costs and lengthened shipping times across the region. The […]
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Japan has decided it does not want to depend on Elon Musk to keep its phones connected from space. The government is set to provide up to ¥150 billion, roughly $926 million, in subsidies to a consortium led by Rakuten Group to build a homegrown low-Earth-orbit satellite communications network. A project Tokyo frames explicitly as […]
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The opposition KMT is proposing NT$240bn for unmanned systems just days after stalling the government’s plan, in a fight with real implications for the island’s defence. Few militaries have watched the war in Ukraine more closely than Taiwan’s, and the lesson it has drawn is that cheap, mass-produced drones can blunt a far larger force. […]
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South Korea has placed its biggest bet yet on the AI era. The plan commits at least $880bn over a decade to chips, data centres and robots. It is the boldest South Korea AI investment to date, and the government says speed is now the only way to survive. President Lee Jae Myung unveiled the […]
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Firmus Technologies, an Australian AI infrastructure company valued at $5.5 billion, will build its first data centre in Indonesia through an eight-year partnership with Nvidia. The 360-megawatt Nvidia DSX AI Factory campus in Batam, an island just off the coast of Singapore, is being developed with Singapore-based DayOne and is set to go live in […]
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Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on Read More »
The shipment passed through Kuala Lumpur declared as ordinary computer components. Inside the 72 server units, Malaysian customs officers found something the paperwork did not mention: advanced artificial-intelligence chips worth 52.9 million ringgit, or about $13m, sitting in the airport’s free trade zone and waiting to move on. Malaysia’s customs department announced the seizure on […]
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