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Malaysia issues a statutory demand to TikTok over content moderation failures

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The MCMC’s first formal Section 39 enforcement under the Online Safety Act 2025 lands on TikTok, with a maximum financial penalty of RM10 million in play if the platform fails to deliver an enforceable moderation plan. Malaysia’s Communications and Multimedia Commission has issued a formal statutory demand to TikTok over what regulators describe as a […]

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OpenAI plants its first overseas applied-AI lab in Singapore, with a $235M commitment

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The company will scale to about 200 staff in the city-state and align the lab’s work to Singapore’s public-sector, finance, healthcare, and digital-infrastructure priorities. OpenAI said on Wednesday it will open its first applied-AI lab outside the United States in Singapore, with a S$300m (about $235m) commitment alongside a staffing ramp to roughly 200 people […]

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Geely-backed ECARX signs $750 million deal to build purpose-built robotaxis for May Mobility

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ECARX, the automotive technology company backed by Geely founder Li Shufu, has signed a strategic framework agreement with May Mobility to supply thousands of autonomy-enabled vehicles for the American robotaxi operator’s commercial fleet. The deal, valued at approximately $750 million, pairs a Chinese-founded hardware supplier with one of the few US robotaxi companies that has […]

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HistoSonics gets Taiwan approval for its tumour-destroying ultrasound system as it pushes into Asia

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HistoSonics has received regulatory approval from Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration for its Edison Histotripsy System, a non-invasive cancer treatment device that uses focused ultrasound to destroy tumours without cutting, radiation, or thermal damage. The TFDA authorisation, announced on 18 May, marks a significant step in the company’s expansion into Asia and adds Taiwan to […]

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The US is building a 4,000-acre AI hub in the Philippines, and the sovereignty questions are already piling up

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  The United States and the Philippines are moving “very, very quickly” on a planned 4,000-acre artificial intelligence and supply chain hub in New Clark City, north of Manila, according to Jacob Helberg, the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Helberg visited the proposed site on Monday with more than a dozen American companies, […]

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Japan’s Monster Wolf robot is a $4,000 scarecrow with red LED eyes, and it actually works

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  Somewhere on a golf course in rural Hokkaido, a mechanical wolf with glowing red eyes is turning its head from side to side, howling at nothing in particular. It looks absurd. It is also, by most available evidence, working. Monster Wolf is the product of Ohta Seiki, a small Hokkaido-based manufacturer that has been […]

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A Japanese TV shopping company bet on Anthropic in 2021, and now it is quadrupling its fund

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Summary: Japanet Holdings, the Japanese TV shopping company based in Nagasaki, has quadrupled its venture capital fund to $200 million after early investments through Pegasus Tech Ventures in Anthropic, xAI, SpaceX, and OpenAI generated extraordinary paper returns. Anthropic alone has appreciated from a $550 million valuation in 2021 to $380 billion in 2026. The expansion […]

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ByteDance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2.0 as it begins cautious global rollout

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Six weeks ago, a video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt on a rooftop went viral. It was, of course, not real. It was generated by Seedance 2.0, ByteDance’s AI video model, and it set off a firestorm that drew cease-and-desist letters from six major Hollywood studios, a formal denunciation from the Motion Picture Association, […]

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South Korea turns to Russian naphtha as Asia’s chip supply chain feels the squeeze

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When Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz in late February, choking off the corridor through which a fifth of the world’s oil and gas flows, the immediate consequences were predictable: crude prices spiked, energy markets convulsed, and geopolitical analysts reached for their most alarming adjectives. What fewer people anticipated was how quickly the crisis […]

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Microsoft commits $1 billion to Thailand for cloud and AI infrastructure

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Brad Smith met Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul in Bangkok to announce the 2026-2028 investment spanning data centre infrastructure, cybersecurity, sovereign technology, and AI skills training for millions of Thai workers. Microsoft has announced a commitment of more than $1 billion in cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand between 2026 and 2028, the company’s largest publicly […]

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